Blog - Melissa Dinwiddie | Create the Impossible™ | Innovation Keynote Speaker & Consultant

January 16, 2014

3x5x365 Day 98: Change

Sometimes you coax me forward and I dance

bright-eyed and busy-tailed

leaping and curious.

Other times you drag me,

kicking and screaming.

You’re the spice that flavors a new meal,

pungent, sizzling.

You’re the hooded spectre,

harbinger of loss.

A shapeshifter, a volatile stock.

I need you, yet I hate you so,

those sudden appearances when I haven’t had time

to vacuum and set the table,

showing up, so blasé, at my door.

You never did have any manners.

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January 15, 2014

3x5x365 Day 97: Proof

It’s in the way my pulse quickens,

the way the inside of my skull feels larger than my head,

the catching of my breath.

Possibilities spread out before me,

seeds blown off a dandelion,

scattering on the wind.

Which one will I catch,

which eddy will I float on,

going who knows where?

I pick up my brush and load it with color

my skin turning inside out and outside in again.

If I didn’t need to be still,

I’d leap with joy

this very minute,

and that’s all the proof I need.

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January 14, 2014

3x5x365 Day 96: Mutual

It started with curiosity.

Plus a certain primal stirring.

You saw me onstage,

then somehow saw into,

through,

beyond.

But the glimmers I saw

weren’t enough to lock my gaze,

so I drifted away,

not knowing you’d hooked a line to my toe

and floated behind,

quietly

patient,

waiting for an opportune moment to

reel me in.

Waiting,

like a stone,

like a giant oak,

like the sky,

for me to finally

open my eyes.

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January 13, 2014

3x5x365 Day 95: Attract

The first half of my life I spent

trying to attract.

Nothing seemed more important,

so I worked, and tried, and grasped

with all my might.

“Come here! Come here! Please, oh, please!”

Youth is wasted on the young and foolish.

All that desperate grasping ever got me

was not what I was looking for.

Now I know attraction is a subtler art,

one of letting go,

of just being,

of allowing,

no effort,

just you.

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January 13, 2014

Secrets of Living a Big, Bold, Creative Life (Plus 2 LIVE Events Coming Up!)

Hear ye, hear ye, I’ve got two FREE live events coming up that you should know about, plus some secrets:

1) Live Event #1: Creative Insurgents Podcast with Luna Jaffe

The Creative Insurgents podcast I co-host with my partner-in-arms, Cory Huff, is getting tons of great feedback.

(Haven’t seen it yet? Click here to check out our most recent episode, with independent artist Gwenn Seemel.)

You can subscribe to the Creative Insurgents video podcast with iTunes, or subscribe to the audio only on Stitcher.

And now you can join us LIVE!

Just visit http://creativeinsurgents.com/live/ at 1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET on Wednesday, January 15.

We’ll be jamming with Luna Jaffe, artist, psychotherapist, financial planner, and author of Wild Money, all about where creativity and money intersect with grace and joy.

If you want a reminder in your inbox, just be sure you’re subscribed to my insiders newsletter.

2) Secrets of Living a Big, Bold, Creative Life

Wanna know a secret?

If you’re one of my insiders, you just got one in your inbox today, and will get four more over the course of the week.

Secrets of Living a Big, Bold, Creative Life, that is.

It’s a special 5-part series I created for my insiders, to get them living bigger, bolder, and more creative right now. And to call attention to Your Big, Bold, Creative Life Academy, my 3-month lab for women that starts up again on January 27th.

(Not on the list yet? Sign up here.)

Which brings me to…

3) Live Event #2: Shatter Your Self-Installed Glass Ceilings Workshop

All of my insiders are getting this series (not on the list? Sign up to the right or below), but if you’re on the waiting list for the Academy you’ll also get some extra goodness, including a free ticket to the intro workshop I’m offering a week from today, on Monday, January 20th:

Shatter Your Self-Installed Glass Ceilings.

The workshop contains actual content from the Academy — the first session, really, though since the “official” Session 1 is the following week, let’s call the intro workshop Session Zero. There will be stories, and fun exercises, and opportunities for mini-coaching — just like in the rest of the Academy.

It’s a great opportunity to learn tools to shatter your own self-installed glass ceilings — the mindsets that keep you living smaller than your true potential — and to see what it’s like to be in the Academy classroom with me.

I’ll also give you an overview of the Academy program, and there will be prizes! You could win something pretty cool, and if you’re on the call live, you’ll double your chances of winning.

Want your free ticket? Click here to grab it.

Woohoo! Two opportunities to hang with me LIVE this week! I hope to see you there. 🙂

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1) Live Event #1: Creative Insurgents Podcast with Luna Jaffe

2) Secrets of Living a Big, Bold, Creative Life

3) Live Event #2: Shatter Your Self-Installed Glass Ceilings Workshop

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