| Recently a friend was talking to me about
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| | seem to be the last one hanging around
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| her first experience in a store where you
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| | admiring all the small, finite details,
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| can paint your own pottery. She was
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| | wanting to know all about it? Look at
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| excited and animated while talking about
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| | those areas first.
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| this experience, and explained how she
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| | Invest in yourself. Take a class, get a
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| wanted to be there everyday during lunch
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| | book or find a possible mentor. Put into
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| to paint. That she could just live in
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| | action a commitment to learn. Each one
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| that store and paint all day. I
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| | who has mastered a skill goes through a
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| understand that passion and loved seeing
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| | learning process and starts at step one.
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| it in her.
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| | Start. Put away the excuses and fears.
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| Then she said something that I nearly
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| | It doesn't have to be perfect; you don't
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| fell off my chair. "I've never done
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| | even need to show it to others if you
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| anything like this before in my life, I'm
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| | don't want to. Give yourself permission
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| one of those people who have no talent,
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| | to fail, but give it enough time and
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| or an artistic bone in my body." I
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| | dedication to see if it's something that
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| asked her if she really truly believed
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| | fits you or not. If it doesn't, move on
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| that, and she indicated that she did
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| | to try something else, but keep looking
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| honestly feel that way.
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| | until you find that fit.
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| I do not believe that about any person.
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| | Don't be terribly surprised if doing this
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| I believe especially in people who
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| | however, brings up issues in your life.
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| haven't found their "niche" yet, that
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| | I've found in mine that to be true. I'm
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| there is a wealth of hidden, undiscovered
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| | not sure if it's because it's working
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| talent, which just hasn't been found yet.
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| | another part of your brain and taps into
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| I love meeting people like this because
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| | that creative side or what. But I've
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| to me, I sense a treasure hunt.
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| | found that to push through those
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| I have found in my life that the seasons
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| | feelings, to talk to a good friend or
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| where I'm not doing something creative,
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| | safe person about those feelings. In
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| there was something vital missing. That
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| | the last few years I've taken up
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| I'm off balance somewhat. I've been that
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| | candlemaking, and I had made candles as a
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| way since I was a child. I believe
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| | child as well, so it was a return for me
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| people are born with a need to express
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| | to an art form I long ago loved doing.
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| their creativity. The obstacles to
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| | I was very surprised at some major issues
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| blocked creativity are finding what that
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| | to come to the surface in my life, things
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| medium should be, and probably also
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| | far too personal to go into here, but
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| defining some goals, and perhaps some
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| | they were so major that I nearly quit;
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| defined reasons they are blocked.
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| | despite that it was something I loved
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| Expand your thinking and definition of
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| | doing and had invested heavily in. I
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| what creativity is. It isn't only a
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| | cried for 2 weeks. After grieving an
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| person who can draw or paint or write.
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| | ugly truth I had long ago pushed down and
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| Most didn't just take it up and were good
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| | ignored in my spirit, I realized that
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| at it at their first attempt. It was a
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| | ugly thing had robbed me too much in my
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| natural talent, but it needed developed.
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| | life already, and it was time for it's
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| They learned and practiced to become good
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| | power over me to stop. Through the pain,
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| at what they do. Just about anything and
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| | I chose to make it a business and it came
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| any medium can be created into art.
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| | forth with the name: Joyful Designs in
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| Gardening can be an art form for
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| | Soy. I gained some real personal
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| instance. I've seen some gardens that
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| | freedom through that process which I am
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| truly were a work of art and almost
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| | deeply grateful for, and my business name
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| breath taking. I've seen junk turned
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| | is a declaration of a new truth in my
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| into art, there's jewelry making, basket
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| | life. I also carry a new joy that I
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| weaving, knitting, spinning your own
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| | didn't have before, into the rest of my
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| yarn, photography, too much to list.
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| | life.
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| Start thinking big.
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| | Our creative side isn't just about what
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| Where does your interest lie? Take some
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| | we're doing, it's also about who we are,
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| time to really think about that. What
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| | and that touches people near us. Just
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| are some areas you've told yourself,
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| | like tossing a stone into a pond, those
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| "someday I'd like to learn that." What
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| | ripples it creates, flow out and affects
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| are some areas that you've seen others do
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| | others.
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| that you find totally amazing and you
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