Category: Creativity

I have a billet doux (love letter) for you today. It is the most beautiful wish for you. In our creative group we would do a visualization exercise just to get our juices going and to hear what someone elses insides  are like when they read their exercise. Here is one for you. Imagine you are on a path that is leading to the most beautiful place of peace and stimulation at the same time. Anticipate the place you are going while enjoying the path along the way there.

Make it the most wonderful path you can imagine. Now  you are in the place that is the best for you to really fly. What does it look like if there were no limits to what you could have there. Now, imagine that you have a magic marker that whatever you draw happens. What will happen in the most beautiful place? Take a few minutes to think about this and then write down what you might draw that will take place as soon as you draw it. Write for 10 minutes . Keep this note in a safe place under your pillow and think about it often.

Happy Valentines

There is no normal anything. When people say things are normal they really mean that things are going as they expected. When a different experience than you are used to occurs, people notice and comment about it. But in the great scheme of life we are not in control of anything and we have to do what we can in every circumstance.

How we look at new things in our lives is ultimately the only thing in our control. But that is everything at every time and every place. Crying about how bad things are is a total waste of time and energy. Being depressed is sometimes just thinking about everything that is bad according to us. The same thing might happen to someone else and it is received as a great thing. I am thinking of a model in England who had acid thrown on her face by a stranger. Her face was gone and she would never model again, but two years later she said she was a better person. She was extremely shallow before the crime but now she has develop character and that was worth the pain. Nobody is dealt anything hard unless it is for making them better.

What is a masterpiece anyway? Both Jackson Pollack and Renoir have created masterpieces. It is not the content so much as the power to last that makes a masterpiece. Every time You look at it is fresh and new.
Fashion can have masterpieces too. The thing is the line that never ceases to be beautiful. Chanel was an artist who found these lines in her work.
There are masterpieces in every field. The design of a tool can be a work of art.
You can train your eye to see a masterpiece by looking at many works of art. Each time you see a new one your mind will be seeing the unseen. You can develop an instinct for seeing them everywhere. That is why it is important to go to museums on a regular basis. When your eye is trained it will affect every aspect of your life. You will learn to see the same way a trained singer can hear more than the normal person.

Without a mission statement clearly in your mind, your energy will be dissipated. A mission statement can change every few years so you always have to be reevaluating what your priorities are. Not having a clear idea of where you want to go and why will leave you floundering.

Writing a mission statement is not easy. One way to start is to write down everything that is important to you and make lists of order of importance. I like to do mine in my morning writing to look at it. Writing it down makes it easier to assess. Once I locked myself in a room till I thought of one. Its a good exercise and will help with any area of life. This is more than goal setting. This is direction setting.

The hotel where we stayed in Paris had upholstered walls and ceilings. Each room had different material. Each room was very small. Everything is small in Paris. Small and perfectly charming. A small room is the most inviting place to be as it affords you the luxury of feeling very close to whomever you are with. It is intimate. Like whispering in your loved ones ear. We must have had a bathroom that was literally 2 and a half feet by 4 feet. tiny tiny tiny. Bit it was totally marble and it wasn’t just any marble. It was warm perfect gleaming marble with the most beautiful lighting. Our room was ten feet square. So tiny but it had high ceilings and the soft walls and the chandelier and nothing ever felt so cozy. I know for a fact that small spaces make us feel and think differently. Now six months away from France again, I think of these small spaces that are so precious. The tighter in you go with space the more concentrated your thinking.