Hello, My Creative New year

We’ve reached January 10, also known as “Quitter’s Day”, the day when research shows that many people have given up on their New Year’s Resolutions.  Years back, I abandoned the idea of New Year’s Resolutions and embraced New Year action statements.  An action statement should be simple, actionable, flexible and set in motion your growth focus for the year.

I recently ran a Creative New Year workshop where we aimed to assess, project and plan in order to hone in on an action statement for the year.  The statement should apply not only to your creative pursuits but more holistically to all aspects of your life.  Some actions statements my students came up with were:

• Do the work and let it go

• Blossom out of my shell

• Discipline equals freedom

I also followed along with my students, answering my own prompts.  My action statement is less dreamy and more practical for this year…

Invest in Community and Communication.

Once my students found their statements, I asked them to brainstorm all the ways their statement might apply to different areas of their lives and all the ways they could tangibly activate their statement.

As I followed along with my own directives, one of the ways I realized I could activate my action statement was to start investing in my creative community by communicating the frameworks and tools we use at the Studio.  Please welcome to the stage, The Creative Edge Blog.

Here I aim to communicate some of the ethos behind The Creative Edge along with the tools we use so that together we can build a more enlightened and vibrant creative community and reframe our approach to creative development.

Look for my monthly musings in your inbox and please share your thoughts on what works for your creative process.