Swimming towards the new year with joy!

I did my first ever online webinar today! (For those of you who don’t know, a webinar is an online seminar – terrible word really, maybe ‘wonference’ is better.. you know conference but on the web, nope…. better suggestions on a postcard please!)

I loved the fact I had a Hawaii listener stay up til 3 am to do my free online workshop – I had to name drop him live on air, thanks Bill! 😉 It is a truly fabulous feeling to see via the Q&A Forum that Bill from Volcano, Hawaii was Aloha-ing us all in London. I have yet to discover what kind of a creative Bill is but whether he paints the sea, is an actor or a singer I love the fact he is being super creative in one of the world’s most beautiful places. I have been to Maui and cried seeing a mummy and baby whale playing around next to our boat and loved that wonderful fish filled ocean. I particularly loved scuba diving with the puffer fish, I wore a spotted beach dress that did resemble some of those puffer fish, hopefully in pattern and shade only. I do not keep many souvenirs of my trips but I do still have the small carved wooden whale I had from the hotel in Maui. I sometimes wonder now where that mummy and baby whale are, if they survived that 4500 mile journey back to Alaska they were about to undertake.

Apparently whales journey to Hawaii for a vacation and the food, ((proof I am not making this up here!).

I am not sure how I got from webinar to my whale memories but I had to show this. I think I am in love, it is so cute!

The web is so great for that, creating communication and building tribes of people. I think our increased inter connectedness also holds great hope for the world: atrocities are more quickly revealed, news spread and people can hold their hands out to each other across the globe and say ‘hello, I too have dreams and hopes the same as you.”

So I am feeling high on the ‘milk of human kindness‘ to quote Lady Macbeth, not because of the Christmas Season approaching but because I am still committing each day to making, talking about and living art. I will be cooking up a storm for friends this weekend as a thank you to them for their patience for being so busy all year that I have not had the time to really spend quality time with everyone. Next week will be Christmas shopping (I have not started) and also getting a rough edit of my showreel together. I have been putting the showreel off for months waiting in new material plus who actually likes watching themselves on camera?

Now I have no more excuses as the rest will all not be ready for a few months time so.. I could wait til after but I have been taking ‘massive unprecedented action.’ Yes it sounds very American coachville but it is true, I have taken the last days for learning new technology, writing, recording, sorting out e-junkie for the technology so I could sell my newly released ebook. I am ending what has been in many ways an incredibly  difficult year of losses, change and realisations by really having to look at my own life choices, and choosing to make better ones moving forward and actually it has been an amazing  year for fighting forward spiritually and creatively.

So I am wondering what you, my lovely readers, can do in the next week for your creative life and career in between the shopping and avoiding the photocopier room where the office leech lurks at Christmas time waving a glass of eggnog or worse, too sweet Cava, at you.

It has been a few days mad rush to write the ebook and then extract the relevant bits for today’s show on ‘5 ways to get your project done’, do the webinar, edit the free extract/shownotes and deliver it… In fact its 9pm as I write this and I am already collapsed in bed with a box of biscuits.

The workshop is on replay now if people want to listen in here plus get the notes

If you want to know more re the ebook it’s here

And love to hear if any o you are indeed managing to fit in creativity right now and how 😉