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May 11, 2016

LCN 056: Demystifying the Artist

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LCN 056: Demystifying the Artist

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Today I’m sharing some thoughts that were inspired by a fellow artist and blogger, Eli Trier, who invited me to participate in her 31-day project, Demystifying the Artist.

Eli invited 31 different artists to answer the question, “What does being an artist mean to you?” If you join her Demystifying the Artist mailing list (and I’ll include a link in the show notes), every day in May she’ll send you a new essay from a different artist. It’s been really interesting to read what other artists have been writing!

As I was working on my answer, I realized it would make a great podcast episode, so that’s what I’m sharing with you today!

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April 13, 2016

LCN 052: The Only Difference Between You and a Real Artist

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LCN 052: The Only Difference Between You and a Real Artist

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I remember, back in 1994, the first time I went to an art store as an adult.

I’d recently gotten married (to the practice husband), and at our wedding we gave glass votives as wedding favors. We had a bunch of them left over, so it occurred to me to wrap some pretty papers around them and give them to my friends as holiday presents in December.

Except that I didn’t have any pretty papers, so I [Read more…]

July 12, 2015

Are you doing #6 & #7 here? If not, it’s time to start worrying (or time to join me on Tuesday!)

I’ve been spending a lot of time with Brené Brown lately.

(No, not in person; on my computer, thanks to a Udemy course.)

If you’re not familiar with Brené Brown, she’s the best-selling author of Daring Greatly, and an incredibly engaging speaker, with a couple of wildly viral TED videos.

Before she wrote her first book or spoke on the TED stage, however, she started out as a qualitative researcher, which means she interviews thousands of people, then analyzes her data to find patterns.

Over several years of research and a grillion interviews, Brown noticed that some people seemed to have a better capacity to engage more fully in life, to live with authenticity and embrace their imperfections.

In other words, instead of living in black and white, they were living full-color lives.

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June 28, 2015

LCN 001: 8 Reasons Why It’s Essential, NOT Self-Indulgent, to Do Your Creative Thing

8 Reasons It's Essential, NOT Self-Indulgent, to Do Your Creative Thing

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LCN 001: 8 Reasons Why It's Essential, NOT Self-Indulgent, to Do Your Creative Thing

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Do you avoid creating because it feels self-indulgent, even selfish? Here are 8 reasons — including SCIENTIFIC ones — why it’s not self-indulgent, but absolutely essential for you to feed your creative hungers. [Read more…]

January 28, 2015

6 Reasons Why You NEED to Indulge Your Creative Urges

There are so many reasons people cite for why creativity doesn’t hold a bigger place in their lives.

Time is certainly a big one — I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have way too much to do and not enough time to do it in.

Then there’s self-doubt — the gremlin voices that tell you you’re not good enough, you’ll never be good enough, and certainly never as good as your heroes, so why bother? And who do you think you are to even try, anyway?

And then there’s the nagging sense of [Read more…]

LCN 056: Demystifying the Artist

LCN 052: The Only Difference Between You and a Real Artist

Are you doing #6 & #7 here? If not, it’s time to start worrying (or time to join me on Tuesday!)

In other words, instead of living in black and white, they were living full-color lives.

LCN 001: 8 Reasons Why It’s Essential, NOT Self-Indulgent, to Do Your Creative Thing

6 Reasons Why You NEED to Indulge Your Creative Urges

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