7 Life Lessons from Sookie Stackhouse to live by (no blood required)

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This week “ Seven Life Lessons from Sookie Stackhouse” plus our weekly creative tracking
This is the weekly Love Your Creativity Podcast newsletter to keep myself and you focused on creativity whether you are an artist, actor, musician, playwright or film director. To listen to the podcast just press the arrow above, or go to here to a link on iTunes.

The  highlights of the podcast are as follows (well they are highlights in my mind ;-)!)

I have just finished reading ‘Dead Ever After’ by Charlaine Harris, the last of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, on which the amazing HBO True Blood series is based. (their amazing website is here)
I loved the novel ending where she knew that ..they  (no plot spoilers!!) .. would be together maybe for always but even if he left she would be alright, she would survive.

Lesson One – Acknowledge you have survived
Sookie  knows that she has gone through crazy, death, blood, loss and she has survived… and she will come what may
In our reality people go through terrible  things and somehow survive; pain, loss of love & death hurts but you will survive.Recognise that you won through (or crawled through) and you are still here.
Acknowledge the battles you have survived.

Also she (and probably you) have loved and lost men, some you will love forever but you need to let go. You will survive on your own, you have to 😉

Lesson Two – Live In the Moment
Sookie lives in the moment – there are so many moments where she lies in the sun, the heat, the flowers.. even despite the crazy around her. She has a place to go and relax, in this moment I am OK. I have started walking/jogging daily again as it makes me happy. Find what always cheers you and reminds you of the good things in life and go do that as often as you can

Lesson Three – Family and friends, some you love, others just let them go.
Sookie’s family and friends are important, she has learnt to accept their differences, know she cannot change them.  Some people you will love always, some people you need to let go off if they are not positive in your life.

Lesson Four – Keep your Heart Open
Despite her crazy relationships  Sookie Stackhouse keeps her heart open for new love. Maybe it is easier for a fictional character!

Lesson Five – Some lovers  are very selfish
Some lovers  are very selfish, not necessarily in bed.. when their ego or life is more important than you all the time it is time to leave.

Lesson Six- Acknowledge where what you want and what HE wants in a relationship differs
You need to acknowledge what you want in life and relationships and check that that matches the men you date. If u want kids why date a vampire? If you like the sun why date a night owl?
Its fine when you are not ready to settle down but dating a man clearly not ready to settle down when you want a relationship s a disaster in the long term. Its fine to have casual flings but be clear if thats is what it is and whether you actually want more. Look at your relationships and see the patterns. Make peace with your choices and stop nagging or move on

Lesson Seven – Insist on having really great sex
Have really great sex.  If you aren’t then  go and get it, or get some help with your current lover.

Most Importantly
The most admired capacity in  human is not beauty or intelligence or even the capacity to love… but the ability to get up after being beaten down and then fight forward in their own way, living the life they chose. Think of  Helen Keller, The Shawshank Redemption, Rocky, Nelson Mandela.
Think also of Marlon Brando in The Waterfront ‘ i could have been a contender,” – Don’t get to the end of your life and say this.

13 minute task of the day
Replace the lyrics to’ I will Survive’ with a situation or name of someone you survived. Dance and sing around the kitchen

(I have done a Sookie Stackhouse version of this at 15 mins 44 seconds)

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Twyla Tharp The Creative Habit

Tracking Your Creative Progress

This newsletter also looks at 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.Time To Track by Marysia Trembecka
Plus I did a Podcast in detail on tracking and its advantages.

The following is what we need to track each week as a look back in brief, full explanations are in the 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 don’t 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.
Love Your Creativity.com is dedicated to all creatives trying to make great work and make a living from it.

Other posts you might want to read

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Podcast on being strong and wrong
How to find the Katniss Everdeen inside of you

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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