Do More of What Makes You Feel Alive
This simple phrase is at the root of everything I want for myself, and it is my desire to help as many people as I can to do the same: Do more of what makes you feel alive.
Living a more creative life doesn’t necessarily mean being a full time artist. It doesn’t mean quitting your job and throwing yourself into an art studio with reckless abandon. Creative living is more about finding ways to do more of what you love. For some people that does include painting, music making, poetry, writing, pottery, and other more traditional visual arts. For others it’s being in nature, homesteading, figure skating, coloring, reading, gardening, interior decorating…. There are no rules here. What makes you happy? What makes you feel alive? Let’s do more of that.
If you need help figuring out what that is for you, or how to incorporate your thing into your life more easily, check out my creativity coaching services. I would love to help you find a path that works for you to live your best creative life.
Here’s a small collection of quotes that always make me feel fired up, when I’m in pursuit of that feeling of being more aligned to my creative purpose.
“If you’re alive, you’re a creative person.”
“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are are ultimately to be at peace with themselves. What humans can be, they must be.”
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”
“I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage, or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time. ”
“Creativity is a drug I can not live without.”
“It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.”
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say in any other way... things I had no words for.”
The only thing standing between you being a painter and you not being a painter… is you painting.
In an effort to foster a creatives community I’ve started a Facebook group called Art is a Record Creatives Community, the same name as this blog. I would love for you to join in the fun as we discuss creative living, projects, art, and life.
