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Vision for 2023 -get those dreams to come to life!

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Happy new year friends! How has this year started for you!? Our family has had quite a bit of sicknesses go through our home, but we are slowly getting in the groove of a new year with routines settling in.

Life goes crazy quick doesn’t it? If we aren’t too careful, other priorities, schedules, sicknesses and shiny new objects (in the form of whatever we are interested in) can pull us off track to take action on our dreams.

Have you created a vision board before to use as a guide for your year?

I have found that adulting and responsibilities can be a lot. Often what is fighting for our attention is not aligned with our goals and dreams. A vision board can be a physical reminder to you of what you really want.

I recently used one of my art journals to be the base for my vision board for 2023.

I thought through what were some things I wanted to achieve this year. If you haven’t created a vision board before, a good place to start is to ask yourself these two questions:

  1. What do you ultimately want for 2023??
  2. How do you want to show up for it??

I incorporated my “word” for the year. I am aiming to RENEW my mind, time and business this year with more truths and systems for this season of my life.

Last year, I had so much change and this year I want to just work intentionally on where we are now. I love to put my vision boards in  one of my messy art journals, so I can flip through the pages and see them all. It’s like my personal diary.

Do you write stuff down?

If this idea of creating a vision board sounds appealing to you, I’d love to invite you to take my FREE digital vision board workshop. By the end of the workshop you will know the answers to:

  • What is a vision board?
  • Why should I use a vision board?
  • How do I make a vision board? What supplies do I use!?
  • Where do I go from here?

Claim your life. I’ll help you with the how, but you do need to know the why-if creating a fulfilling year sounds exciting, choose to say yes to making a plan for it. If I can help, jump over to this workshop, and we will get started. I’ll see you soon!

Art Magic is the Creative Process

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Have you ever sat back and thought about the parts of your job that you really love?

It may be the reason why you went into that profession or it may be things you realized about it, once you were in it. Even if your job is not your dream, if you are doing it day in and day out, and it takes a chunk of your day and life, I hope there is SOMETHING you love about it.

Recently, a friend asked me what I love about what I do. Without even having to think about it…I knew.

I love when…

🧡the athlete who thinks he/she has no interest in art gets lost in the creative process and spends the most time out of everyone working

🧡the mom who claims she has no creativity gets excited in the process and starts dreaming about what else she can do to other things

🧡 the young artist who doesn’t know any rules, regulations or of a world saying “it’s not suppose to look like that” double fists paint brushes to create or throws the paintbrushes aside and sticks their whole hand in the process

🧡 the artist who has an idea and when it isn’t working out finds the freedom to pivot into something else and stands back more amazed at the end of what they wrestled through on the inside to make something on their own

🧡the hurting, angry child who seems to never slow down or focus gets so lost in the creative process that they are now calm, soft and focused and sharing things from the inside and all the hard melts away as they work

🧡 the grown man who starts slow and hesitant but then as he gets into it, he rolls up his sleeves and starts allowing the kid in him to reappear

These moments and more like them are when I see the spark. I see artists get lost in the creative process…for the journey it’s taking them through on the inside and not even really related to the product on the outside.

It is the ART MAGIC🧡

It is more commonly called the creative process or process art. I use both those names as well, but when you see it happening before your eyes, it leaves you feeling a bit giddy. It feels magical and really special that we can get lost in the journey and forget all the yes/no, right/wrong, black/white, true/false, and exact answers and be left with our feelings, decisions, thoughts, and process. It is pretty magical.

So, have you got lost in the creative process and found the art magic recently? If you haven’t and if you didn’t have an answer to what you love about your job, I encourage you to try something with your hands this weekend. Get creative and lost in the process. It will help your spirit and it just might help you process out what you do love.

If you need help in knowing where to start, you can pick up a messy art journal full of base coats like mine in our shop. I really love this journal.

Thanks so much for following along, and I will be back soon!