by Cali Bird | Sep 28, 2017 | Being gentle, Fame and Success, Fear and Procrastination, Food for thought
It’s been an exciting ride. You’ve been working on your art regularly. You’ve made excellent progress and you are proud of your efforts. It feels wonderful to have been true to yourself. But recently it hasn’t felt so good. You don’t feel you’re advancing. You are...
by Cali Bird | Sep 13, 2017 | Being gentle, Creating with a day job, Fame and Success, Fear and Procrastination, Food for thought
When you decide to get serious and work consistently on your creative project there will be some people who don’t like it. Your friend who’s always been the great procrastinator will be jealous of your efforts. They may be critical of them. Your spouse will sometimes...
by Cali Bird | Jul 26, 2017 | Being gentle, Food for thought
Have you ever spent a long time working on a picture, a piece of music or an article and then arrived at the conclusion that what you have produced is crap? It’s art gone wrong. All that time wasted. You’ve toiled away, doing your best and the result of your...
by Cali Bird | Jul 13, 2017 | Being gentle, Fear and Procrastination, Food for thought
It feels like your head has literally dried up and just won’t think. Ideas have stopped coming. Even if they did arrive you are not sure that you have the energy to do anything good with them. You’ve felt this coming on for a while but just kept pushing on with the...
by Cali Bird | Jun 22, 2017 | Being gentle, Fear and Procrastination, Food for thought
It can be hard to accept yourself as a creative person. You might feel that you are different in the way that you think. Maybe you wish that you weren’t so sensitive. Perhaps in your job you feel like you are a square peg in a round hole, but you can’t afford not to...
by Cali Bird | May 24, 2017 | Creating with a day job, Fame and Success, Food for thought
You have finally decided to pursue your dream creative activity. You want to be a professional artist, writer, musician or actor. You are really passionate about it. If you’ve been doing a regular day job then you can’t wait to leave the tedium of that job behind and...
