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July 12, 2017 by Cynthia Morris Leave a Comment

Meet Your Inner Artist and Discover What She Wants

You have an abundance of creative ideas, and sometimes this overwhelms you. Here’s a process that will help you honor your creative impulses, actually do some of the things you want, and finally feel like you are honoring your inner artist.
I’m working on a new book based on exercises I consistently give my coaching clients. In 18 years of helping bring more creativity to light, I’ve learned a few things about what works.
Here is one of the most potent processes I have used to make sure that creating has its place on the calendar. Try this exercise and share your experience in a comment below. 
Cynthia Morris coaching exercise for artists and writers Your Inner Artist Desires

My Inner Artist Spoke Up and I Listened

Have you ever made a list and gone back to it years later, to discover that you actually DID the things on the list, without necessarily trying? That happened to me.
I revisited my list from 2012 recently. I was amazed to see that I had done 2/3 of the things on it. Not because I disciplined myself to do it. Not because I time managed-my way to do it.
Because I WANTED to do these things, they somehow happened. It feels a bit magical to see that once I put my artist desires on paper, it somehow was easier to make space for them.
Cynthia Morris artist desires list mindmap creativity
Try this process and let us know below how it went for you!

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