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https://loveyourcreativity.com From the initial spark of a creative idea to getting your projects finished & out there! Sun, 13 Oct 2013 20:01:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/e82cdf867f3dcf128ce9504af3a51b96.png?s=48 https://loveyourcreativity.com Copyright © LoveYourCreativity.com 2013 marysia13@googlemail.com (Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows) marysia13@googlemail.com (Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows) Creativity 1440 http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q698/M013/LYCPodcastpic_zps3e343740.png https://loveyourcreativity.com 144 144 Podcasts by Marysia Trembecka of LoveYourCreativity.com to make you smile & motivate you to create & put your art out there whether you are an artist or an actor. Interviews & advice with creatives from directors to authors + Marysia[...] Love Your Creativity.com. Interviews with creatives with their advice on keeping motivated & moving forward, whether you are a actor, painter or a musician. Plus Marysia's fun weekly newsletter & 13 minute task of the day to keep you creating. Blog is at www.loveyourcreativity.com. Twitter @MarysiaT http://www.facebook.com/Loveyourcreativity. G+ & LinkedIn Marysia Trembecka creativity, marketing, author, musician, actor, novelist, positive, thinking, interviews, tips, advice Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows marysia13@googlemail.com no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/16/the-greatest-time-management-tool-ever-its-free/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/16/the-greatest-time-management-tool-ever-its-free/#comments Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:46:30 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=1081 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/06/16/the-greatest-time-management-tool-ever-its-free/feed/ 2 0:17:57 I LOVE MY BELLY MORE THAN ANYTHING That’s what I have learnt this week using this management tool, cooking and eating is what I do most after sleeping (and some days that order sadly gets switched round).  This is the weekly Love Your Creativi[...] I LOVE MY BELLY MORE THAN ANYTHING That’s what I have learnt this week using this management tool, cooking and eating is what I do most after sleeping (and some days that order sadly gets switched round).  This is the weekly Love Your Creativity podcast,  the podcast goes into more detail but I know myself sometimes it’s great just to read the highlights, time management and all that so the main points are below For the last 5 days I have finally got around to using a time management tool that just involves a pen and paper (or a note on your smart phone). I have known about this for years but have never actually got around to doing it. Now that I have, I can report back that when I say ‘I have no time, I am always rushing around’ I know exactly where my time is spent. In my case I spent a lot of time in the kitchen cooking and eating. In fact I have spent over the last 5 days as much time cooking and eating (yes as stated I love food and my belly) as I looking at my emails, sending CV’s out and organising the business of my creativity.  I have also spent 3 times more time in organising the business of creativity than on the actual practice of my craft. So how do you do this? Well you could build a spreadsheet but that is way too anal and focused for me. I just grabbed an old A4 page a day diary and scribbled in old fashion pen what I did during the day. So I wrote the time I woke up, how long I hit the snooze button for, how long it took me to sort out breakfast and morning coffee, feeding the cat. During the day as I changed activities from getting on a tube to cooking again, to travel and time spent on Twitter I just jotted down the time. Was it perfect? No. However at the end of each day I added it up into the following  rough categories and then after 5 days totalled the lot Travelling Work on my craft Getting ready to go out Cooking/eating Faffing Cleaning/feeding cat etc Emails.CVs out. Printing scripts, ebay, twitter, Running The snooze button Blog/podcast time Sleep Actual time spent on looking at scripts Rehearsals and time actually in auditions Phone Calls. I suggest you try this for 2 weeks, I hate the idea of it but just in 5 days I am already seeing huge anomalies on where I think I spend my time and where I waste time. The snooze button and I have a committed 3 hour relationship over the last 5 days, far more than I spent practising my instruments or my voice outside of singing rehearsals, or indeed on working on text and scripts. Let me know what you learn. I hope doing it for a further 9 days will show I am learning to use my precious time better. I have been using my 13.5 hours travel time well, but I am now getting super organised about taking work and scripts etc to read on the tube. I remember Clive Rowe, the fabulous West End star saying to me that he used to sit and go round and round the Circle line to learn a script as there were no distractions, he couldn’t get on the phone or on email etc. So rather than getting upset about your time schedule, see where you can make small positive incremental changes. AiTunes rating would really help other people find the podcast so if you have a moment I would really appreciate it https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/love-your-creativity-podcast/id633181477 Tracking Your Creative Progress Here we also look 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 don’t 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[...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/07/07-podcast-advice-on-criticism-be-strong-and-wrong/ https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/07/07-podcast-advice-on-criticism-be-strong-and-wrong/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 00:01:14 +0000 http://loveyourcreativity.com/?p=537 https://loveyourcreativity.com/2013/05/07/07-podcast-advice-on-criticism-be-strong-and-wrong/feed/ 1 0:13:10 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 [...] 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 c[...] Podcast Marysia Trembecka Actress/Blogger/Writer & Performer of her own shows no no