12a. You have to start before the inspiration flows
Hey this is Anne with your Coaching On The Go.
I am talking about a recurring theme of procrastination or taking action.
I got an opportunity to experience it this week at SpiritRiver, when I was beginning my next large-scale drawing.
My last drawing came up on the easel.
I had taken a series of photos that inspired me on a topic and then it took me over a year to get back to those images.
Once I put the images on the paper initially and got it started, the drawing sat on the easel for, I’m going to say, a year and a half before I came back to it.
Once I came back to it, oh my gosh, it was so incredibly inspired.
One segment after the other dictated itself to me as I worked.
I almost didn’t have to do anything except pay attention.
The drawing was highly successful for me.
Here I was, sitting with a brand new piece of paper, a blank piece, and another idea from a series that I was making that would spring from the first image.
The first image became inspired over time, I didn’t start with the image I ended with.
I started with a blueprint for a composition, and an idea.
To look at the paper and expect to already have the inspiration before I got started was just crazy.
I sat there thinking, “How am I going to make as good of a piece as I made already?”
“How am I going to do that?”
Finally, I realized what happened on the first one was through working, I became inspired.
Through the process of working I became inspired.
So I got started, and wouldn’t you know it, after not that long of a time, I started to get incredible ideas and images flowing.
My coaching today to you is to get started.
Start doing something, and that activity will open up the conduit of your creativity.
It will open that and the next steps will present themselves.
Just take the next step.
Have a beautiful day.
12b. Start freshly open at the beginning of each new project
This is Anne with part 2, continuing from our last coaching thread, Spirit River Coaching 12A.
This is 12B.
I spoke about having to get started on a drawing before I could feel the inspiration that comes.
Relate this to any project you are going to work on.
If you just had success and are ready to start an additional project, a next thing, a next chapter, and you are coming off of the wings of something that you had success with, sometimes fear of failure or not succeeding the way we just did – are very similar, the fear of failure and the fear of success.
Sometimes, that fear will stare you right in the face and make you motionless.
When I am relating to my drawing and artwork, realizing that my process started with something basic, and grew through me working on it, engaging with it, and co-creating with it.
No matter what you are working on, if you are staring at it and not getting started, thinking about the end, or about what you have done before, you are not in the present moment, and that’s going to be a challenge for you.
I encourage you, whenever you have a project to get going on, to get going!
Just get going!
Take the next step.
Whatever you know you are ready to do, do that.
Doing that will open the pathway to the next thing that you know you are ready to do, and so on.
Today’s part 2 coaching is taking the idea of sitting in front of a piece of white paper after you’ve succeeded at an incredible drawing, or sitting in front of your next giant fundraiser when you just finished one that was successful or you just finished creating and launching an incredible business, wondering what to do next, you are not thinking about the processes you went through in your last, you are thinking about the end and how it worked out.
Think through your entire process.
If you start comparing yourself to a previous time or event, don’t forget all the things you did to get to the end of that project, company, or idea.
You didn’t start with the end, you started with the beginning, and allowed yourself to engage and engage and engage and co-create until you got to the end.
Here’s to starting at the beginning and allowing yourself to be at the beginning freshly.
Just get started on the work, and open your being to listening.
Ask out loud for what you are missing or need help with, then listen for it.
Have eyes to see it, ears to hear it, and senses to feel it.
I’d love to hear from you.
Throw a comment back to me in an email and say hi.
Have a beautiful day.