Archive | March, 2009

Week 8: Guest Blogger Teresa says….

25. March 2009

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Teresa McCrone is our guest blogger for week 8. I completely resonated with this…I always say procrastination is my greatest skill (after napping.) And I too have been learning to get things done with the little and often approach. Teresa says: "In last week’s lesson on how to not procrastinate I learned that lots of things [...]

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Guest blogger Kirsty Norton says…

23. March 2009

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Guest blogger Kirsty Norton talks about her Artist's Way journey: "Wow, what a journey this has been. I started the Artists Way with such great gusto as it was just what I needed to give me the strength and courage to follow my dream of being a full time yoga teacher/writer and wellbeing expert. I committed myself to the [...]

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Artist’s Way Week 8

22. March 2009

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How are we all doing? How has your week been? I've had a much better week. I have been much kinder to myself – more bubble baths, less inner beat-up. I've also had great fun creating my collage. I was suprised to see how strongly 'home' featured. And I think I'm going to be dying [...]

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The Artist’s Way Week 7.

16. March 2009

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How was week 6 for you? Are you feeling abundant? Because of all the research I'm doing on writing my Big Peace book, I'm feeling completely inspired. Everything from Buddhist Monks writing about happiness to Carl Honore (see post below) on the Slow Movement and why the recession is the perfect time to slow down. [...]

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I’m running late this week….

16. March 2009

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Excuse me…I'm running late this week. Perhaps because I've been attempting to slow down. I have been very inspired by the Slow Movement this week. This is a brilliant article written by founder of the Slow Movement Carl Honore. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/24/ethicalliving.creditcrunch So, I've been very, very slow this week and I have given up running around [...]

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The Artist’s Way – Week 6

8. March 2009

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Phew! I'm just back from a day of 'design your creative life' with the Swedish writing coach and publisher Ann Ljungberg. What a day! I was privileged to be speaking along side Fay Weldon – the brilliant author who regaled us with her journey to write  her last novel in her basement 'with the spiders' [...]

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‘Nothing is impossible,’ says guest blogger Tom Koukoulis

4. March 2009

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Guest Blogger Tom Week 5, Recovering a sense of possibility.   I remember when I was in NYC a couple of years ago, we needed to exchange some greyhound tickets to ones with a more suitable time as our plans had changed. Not being familiar with how things work in the US we were worried we may be stuck with [...]

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I’m doing a creativity talk on sunday

4. March 2009

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Just in case you haven't got plans for the weekend, I'm doing a talk in London on Sunday at a creativity conference – alongside Fay Weldon and Eric Maisel, one of America's big creativity gurus. Anne who is organising it has offered a last minute price of £110 to any Big Leaper who wants to [...]

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Did anyone manage a week’s reading ban?

2. March 2009

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I was so embroiled in my own resistance that I didn't discover the benefits? Who managed to go the full 7 days without reading – how did you find it?

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The Artist’s Way Week 5

1. March 2009

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How was week 4 for you? I certainly was hitting my resistance wall. "It's not working, It's not working, I hate this!" I was heard to cry. "I'm going to read if I want to, so there!" Tantrums? My inner three year old was in full cry, my inner artist was left quivering in the [...]

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