This is Anne with your Coaching On The Go.

This week, I want you to dig into yourself to create something.

I’m giving you a little assignment.

One of my next events online, I’m going to take you deeper into creating.

Why would I do that?

Exercising your creativity affects you in every aspect of life.

It frees and opens you to be more resourceful, playful, and come up with solutions.

In our society right now, there are a lot of challenges for people.

When the going gets tough, the creative, resourceful problem solvers continue to find additional pathways to move through.

Today, your assignment is to create a miniature self-portrait.

It can be anything as long as you can reveal why it is a self-portrait.

You can use any materials you find in your house.

You can also use materials you find on your walk in nature, but you can’t go buy anything.

You have to use what is available in your house.

By Friday, I would like to see what you’ve come up with. 

Then either email it to me, or post it on my LinkedIn page. 

One time when I was working to attain my national board certification, I was sent materials to make an art project out of what came to me in a big envelope.  

It was three pieces of paper.

One was silver gray, one was black, and one was light gray.

I was so agitated because, in my mind, art materials have some level of preciousness.

These were construction papers.

I took each one, wadded it up, and threw it against the wall.

As they fell and started to decompress and get bigger, they began to intrigue me.

Soon I found myself making a sculptural form out of these three pieces of what I considered garbage.

When I was done with it, they looked cool.

It made me think that I don’t know everything.

There are so many possibilities.

Often out of something you don’t think will work or you feel frustrated with comes an ingenious idea or solution.

So today, this week, you are making a self-portrait.

It needs to be less than six inches tall, wide, and deep.

It can’t be bigger than any of those dimensions, not eight by four for example.

It has to be under six, in every dimension, from height and width to depth.

Have fun.