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Watch a scary movie this weekend and forget about your real life fears for a moment. If you get inspired by the rollercoaster of emotions and drama filled suspense, come up with your own horror movie idea. Share it with a friend, partner or family member and let them add to your idea. Some of the greatest movies, products and business ideas come from silly banter. Enjoy scaring the bejesus out of yourself!
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The opposite of fear is joy. Who wouldn’t want joy in their everyday lives? How much would a fearful person pay for clarity? Probably a lot. Here are 3 steps to creating clarity to achieve joy in your life.
Write down 5 things you are grateful for in your life.
Write your 3 favorite things to do; hobbies, activities, experiences (Things you would do for free and when time ceases to exist.)
What scares you most in life? (Choices you made, those you didn’t or ones you’re hesitating to make for any number of reasons/excuses.)
This exercise is to help you create/design your most joyous life. Itty bitty baby steps in the direction of your vision are perfectly fine. There are many ways to make shifts in your life, schedule and budget to softly accommodate the path toward your life filled with clarity and joy.
Everyone you’re putting ahead of pursuing your dreams because somehow their needs are more important than your happiness, will benefit greatly from your actions. Their “needs” are simply serving as an excuse for you not following through with your personal interests. This does not mean abandon all adult responsibilities and dependents while bankrupting yourself. The moment you realize that your desires matter, is the moment just before your first step toward your new life. Wouldn’t it be nice to be an example of what a purposeful life can be by following your passion and dreams?
A great book recommendation on this subject is “Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert. She explains how she has changed her relationship with fear by coexisting with it and tell it what to do. Her fear has to “sit in the backseat and cannot control the music.”
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Do you think you’re a creative person? If you just said no, then you need to keep reading. If you said yes, then keep reading and then forward this to someone who needs to hear/believe that they ARE creative.
Sometimes being creative for a design, editing, or event planning project can bring on overwhelm and anxiety. Just thinking of an art project to decorate your home can be daunting. This is a great time to read or listen to the book “The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield.
Everyone is creative in unique ways which is a great thing since we are always looking for the next and the newest. Reinvention is a great place to start when it feels like all the “new” ideas or designs have already been done. Take a piece of outdated furniture for example, say a velvet side chair or a brass 80’s floor lamp. Look solely at the shape of the item and reimagine it in a different color, your favorite color. An old piece of furniture has great bones and has the potential to look like a completely new item with the right color or upholstery. This is simple and low cost exercise to get your creativity ignited and flowing for the brilliant new ideas that are waiting to burst out of you.
“Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.”