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How To Focus And Shut Out Distractions

How To Focus And Shut Out Distractions

by Cali Bird | Feb 14, 2020 | Creating with a day job, Fame and Success, Fear and Procrastination

You want to get on with your creative work but your family are going crazy around you. Your phone seems to rule your life. You’ve just read yet another blog which is telling you that you’re doing it all wrong and you must buy a course now for instant success. If your...
Should You Give Up Your Day Job To Make More Art?

Should You Give Up Your Day Job To Make More Art?

by Cali Bird | Dec 20, 2019 | Creating with a day job

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you didn’t have to work? You could spend all day writing or painting. And you’d have time to do the marketing stuff so that you could actually sell your art. You wouldn’t have to cram your creative work into tiny time slots that have to fit...
How To Create Art From Difficult Life Circumstances

How To Create Art From Difficult Life Circumstances

by Cali Bird | Nov 11, 2019 | Being gentle, Creating with a day job, Fear and Procrastination

My original title for this blog was “how to turn your shit into art”. I don’t mean that literally though some artists have done this! I’m referring to the difficult stuff going on in your life. Your sick child. The big project at work. Your mother as she...
How To Stop Being Afraid And Start Creating

How To Stop Being Afraid And Start Creating

by Cali Bird | Oct 11, 2019 | Being gentle, Creating with a day job, Fear and Procrastination, Food for thought

You want to get on with your your writing, your art project or your music. You see everyone else doing it. They don’t seem to suffer like you. They produce. There must be something wrong with you because you can’t. And this makes you feel even worse. You have good...
20 Lessons From 20 Years Of Writing

20 Lessons From 20 Years Of Writing

by Cali Bird | Aug 9, 2019 | Being gentle, Creating with a day job, Fame and Success, Food for thought

It was the 24th August 1999 in New York City. I was earning more money than God but I was bored and unfulfilled. It was a good time to be in the technology sector. There was a lot of money sloshing about. My daily rate was very healthy but my mind wasn’t. My life...
If I build it, what happens if they don’t come

If I build it, what happens if they don’t come

by Cali Bird | Apr 15, 2019 | Being gentle, Creating with a day job, Fame and Success, Food for thought

There is that wonderful scene in the movie Field of Dreams where Kevin Costner is urged to “build it and they will come”. A baseball field in the middle of a cornfield starts to attract great players from the past. Many people in the personal development...
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Cali Bird loves to encourage people to make a start on their creative projects no matter what else they have going on in their lives.
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