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Confessing My Notebook Obsession

I’m here to confess: I’m a notebook geek. In this video I dish on my obsession, letting you into the pages of the various notebooks I use. I also share some great resources for journal lovers and at the end of this long-ish video, something unexpected and funny happens.
 

If you’d like to be this geekish with notebooks, join me in filling your pages on a daily basis. In my popular Free Write Fling class, we write every day for at least 15 minutes. This is guaranteed to get you past the fear of the blank page and help you overcome that tendency to fill only the first few pages of a notebook.
Join us now to write every day in March.

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Back to Class: Designing My Art School Curriculum

I always loved school, but I didn’t love getting an F in high school art. Now that I’m gearing myself toward making art, I am eager to learn and improve. I’m also eager to be financially prudent.
So it’s back to school for me, with my own art school curriculum.
I adore this concept of earning my A from Rosamund and Benajmin Zander’s wonderful book The Art of Possibility.
Current favorite podcast: Design Matters by Debbie Millman.
Books resource: Denver Public Library, for which I am eternally grateful, otherwise I’d be penniless from buying so many books. Check out more books in my art school reading list.
Other specifics:

  • Daily sketching
  • Weekly urban sketching excursions
  • Weekly illustrated column at Original Impulse blog
  • Weekly Friday art show and share
  • Continued learning about processing for digital sharing
  • Monthly meetings with art buddy
  • Continued absorption of the wonders of the world and openness to juju, guided by intuition and enthusiasm.

 How do you focus your ‘side project’ work? Do you use the frame of a curriculum or something else? Share in a comment below, and if this article inspired you, share it with your friends with one of the buttons below. 

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Why Artists Make Great Businesspeople

The Starving Artist myth proliferates because it is often accompanied by that other myth: creative people aren’t good at business. With these ideas circulating, it’s easy to see how artists struggle to succeed professionally.

But I don’t buy these myths. In fact, I believe that artists and creative people make the best business people. Here’s why. [Read more…] about Why Artists Make Great Businesspeople

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Juju Infusion 6: An Extraordinary Yoga Feat

Episode Six of Juju Infusion – inspiration, fun, yoga and productivity hacks for creative kooks from coach Cynthia Morris.

Quick links for things mentioned in the show:

Cynthia Morris’s Secrets of Empowered Creativity – Free Course

Creative Fortunes
Muji
Manduka Yoga Mats
Andrew Locke – “Help My Business Sucks!”
Le Thé des Écrivains


Welcome to episode six of Juju Infusion. Thanks for all the comments and support you’ve shared with me. It makes it that much more fun.
Enjoy this wee pause to inject an infusion of Juju – good, zesty creative energy – into your day.


In this episode:

  • A Creative Fortune for you
  • Vital Yoga Challenge – and my extraordinary yoga feat!
  • Q&A: How did you get started making videos, Cynthia?
  • Journal Juju – Last week’s winner of the journal juju giveaway* was Jaime Lyerly. Who is it this week? Watch to find out!

Please share your thoughts and questions in a comment below. You may end up on the show!

*Winners of the journal juju giveaway must contact me with your address so I can mail your journal. Without that, I can’t send your journal!

To your juju infusion,

Cynthia

(There are no paid endorsements in this episode. Other than my own. Original Impulse Inc. pays me to do this silly show.)