BE STRONG AND WRONG
This is my Third Weekly Love Your Creativity Newsletter and podcast to keep myself and you focused on creativity.
Don’t lay your dreams down because of some peoples negative comments.
Some people will NEVER like what you do, so dismiss them and move on. Sure you look at constructive comments and see what positive actions you can take to improve, but never let it stop you.
13 minute task
-Take 3 negative comments or criticisms that have stayed with you. Somehow we always remember the negative comments, be it from a teacher, parent or colleague
-Write them down on separate pieces of paper
-Write down for 2 minutes each on how you felt and feel about these comments, and your behaviour and actions that came out of that. Did you practice more, give up, get upset, get trashed and have a ridiculous affair with someone inappropriate, (I once had 2 funerals in eight days, the last being my godmother’s funeral and I ended up finally sleeping with someone who I had said no to for a decade – hmmmm not good), we do react from hurt and grief in bizarre ways.
-Burn incense and a candle and one by one burn each paper, send prayer for the happiness of the person who made the comment and for your ability to heal from this
-Or rip the paper into pieces and put in the bin
-Or see the paper as tiny faded black and white newspaper crumbling to dust and throw away.
-Make a positive affirmation, not a pie in the sky dream but a positive actionable move forward so if they don’t like the way you sing you promise yourself to do ten min practice every day for a week or a month. or ‘They didn’t like my art so every day this week I am going to make my art and post it online”.
Make your positive affirmation an action based thing and move forward use their negative as a power to move forward.
-Find the venom and strength in yourself to come back harder and stronger, refuse to lay down and play dead cos others don’t like your work. Take classes to improve where you need but keep moving forward. Dont stay in study mode either all your life, get your work out there whilst you are improving.
Tracking Your Creativity
The following is what we need to track each week as a look back in brief, full explanations are in the Previous Podcast on Tracking
How many CV’s and emails did you send out for creative work?
How many creative jobs did you actually do, whether 8 shows a week, a gallery opening or a song in a children hospice?
How many auditions and meetings for creative projects?
How many classes and workshops did you do?
How much practise done that week, how much each day?
How much money made through your creative pursuits?
What marketing of your creative output did you do and what revenue generation plans put in place?
Did you learn or see anything new or worth exploring creatively?
If it is zero then dont feel guilty, just look at the coming week and endeavour to do better. Each week track these statistics and review the same day every week. Your creativity and bank balance will thank you for it!
Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it.
This newsletter sets a 13 minute creative exercise with a full explanation of the weekly tracking where I encourage you to do an end of week think back on what has been done, produced, worked on, booked and paid for creatively. (I dont mean you are doing ‘creative accounting”!) Whether you are a full time painter or a 40 hours a week office administrator who sings on the side, this is to encourage you to keep creating and make the world a better place, one song, poem, piece of art at a time.
I also have written a mini tracking tune for you to sing along to while you track ;-))
About Marysia and Love Your Creativity
I blog at least three times a week on creativity and techniques to get your art on.
Whether you are a musician, an actor or a choreographer I endeavour to make https://loveyourcreativity.com is a place to come for inspiration and motivation.
I also podcast interviews and this weekly newsletter via podcast with a 13 minute task.
The dance music I use Londontown, is a track I wrote years ago and Andrew Hyde and I are currently working on 3 remixes of it. We will be releasing it very soon as a dance track, dub step mix and bar mix. I figured if I was going to podcast I may as well use my own tune! The other bits of music are me, my inspiration and whatever instrument is lying around!!.
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