Liz Galarza
@lizgalarza
multidisciplinary creative
playing, exploring, and being.
Liz Galarza
- We have to give up. You surrender to the reality that things just take the time they take, and that you can’t quiet your anxieties by working faster, because it isn’t within your power to force reality’s pace as much as you feel you need to, and because the faster you go, the faster you’ll feel you need to go. If you can let those fantasies crumble... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
- How to build a creative playground
Here are 4 tips on how to lock yourself into a cage and have fun :
1. Make variations : Stick with something that you can iterate and vary. Think of basketball: There is only one goal, yet there are countless ways to achieve it.
2. Limit your time : This lets you know when you are done .
3. Pick a format : You won’t... See morefrom The Creative Playground - Ralph Ammer
Even creative work needs scheduling. The greatest writers and artists didn’t wait for inspiration. They kept a strict daily schedule for creating their art. A routine triggers inspiration because your mind and body learn that ideas emerge at that time. The world’s greatest achievements were squeezed into existence by deadlines.
from How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion by Derek Sivers
#rituals
To support our practice, we might set up a daily schedule, where we engage in particular rituals at specific times every day or week.
from The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
Rituals
- Cultivating a timeless and enduring writing voice is inevitable when you write from your gut, enjoy the process, and say what you really mean.
This will transcend all the bullshit trends and fads, ensuring your content remains relevant and influential over timefrom 11 good reasons to develop a distinguishable writing voice by Alex Mathers
- To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just redo it, redo it, redo it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.
from 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice by Kevin Kelly
The impossible becomes possible as soon as we are totally surrendered. This is because wanting blocks receiving it and results in a fear of not getting it. The energy of desire is, in essence, a denial that what we want is ours for the asking.
from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins
- It means that each moment carries a kind of latent serendipity – a hidden ability to become something special down the road – if the right combination of events occur to unlock it. It means that the apparent character of a particular moment doesn’t matter. Because ultimately the difference between an important moment and a million others is not how... See more
from Latent serendipity by Dan Shipper
It is as if the energy field of creative genius is available and waiting for us as soon as we surrender the clouds of negativity that prevent its revelation to us.
from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins
CALM DOWN, IT MIGHT ALL BE CONNECTED.
#sacredvessel