Get A Creative Life

How about investment banker and poet for a creative life?

I felt energy surge through me as I read this article. Here are many of the ingredients of living a creative life. Doing what you love, being creative, helping others, feeling respected and financial prosperity.

John Barr says, “A career in business that now includes about 32 years on Wall Street has always been a source of joy to me. Unlike my father, who worked for a railroad, I love my work and was really delighted to find a career that involved people I respected and clients I could serve. The other river has been poetry and I really couldn't imagine my life without that.”

For more inspirational read on . . .
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=393255&rl=1

What if you won the lottery?

Many of us dream of winning the lottery. Some of us even dream of it, without even buying a ticket. Research shows that many people who win the lottery years later, end up poor.  What would you do if you won $45 million and made your dreams of living your creative life come true?  How ready willing and able are you to live your creative dreams? Is your plan already underway, so that if you had a windfall you would simply plug in the pieces?

Read on to be inspired by this man's dreams coming true . . .
http://www.lotterypost.com/news-118033.htm

Your Money or Your Creativity!

Jayne here...

Your money and your creativity, are they connected? You bet! This was a big “ah-ha for me this week. Chances are if you are blocked around money, you are blocked around your creativity. Free up one, you free up the other. There are many ways to have issues with money, debting, overspending, underearning- they all lead to the same place- the sense that there is not enough or that we are not enough. The underlying sense that we, and therefore our resources, are limited puts a real damper on creativity. We limit what we can do because we believe we don’t have the talent, the time or the money. We think, “Who will want to pay me for being creative?” so we settle for something less than we really want. Our “habits of thinking” create our reality. Strategy Number Three, Develop Daily Creative Habits, will help us to change our reality for the better.

Think about a creativity exercise like brainstorming. Brainstorming is an exercise in abundance-an abundance of ideas. In brainstorming, the rules are that you don’t criticize or evaluate ideas because doing so shuts down the flow. Who wants to risk “out of the box” ideas when someone says, “That’s stupid” or “that won’t work.” It’s no different for creativity or money flowing in our lives. If we judge or criticize our creative efforts- our inner artist goes on strike. If we criticize and judge our financial sources we limit ourselves there too. We will not see the ways in which we can increase our flow of ideas and money if we judge.

Why "Get A Creative Life?"

Hello, my name is Jayne and I am an artist…Except no one actually knows this, not even me until recently. I have finally had to admit to myself and others that my path in life is to express my creative talents and prosper while illuminating the path for others.

The "Get A Creative Life" program is a project that originated from the authors’ desires and attempts to live the creative life. We’ve been through the gamut, gotten the cuts and bruises and we are still on the path… in fact, we can see the clearing in the forest! I (Jayne) have been working on this for years. My chosen career was social work and later counseling. I chose this because it was what I believed I had the talent for that I could make a living at, but not what I really loved to do. I suspected I had creative talents and passions early on but I didn’t let myself contemplate an artistic career for very long- too impractical. (Can you relate?) Who hasn’t heard disparaging comments about the artist’s life? Get a "real" job, starving artist, etc.