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Fooling Around with Jill Badonsky April Ffffffirsttt Twenty-Ten

It's April Foolishnesses
Time to be wilde*
Time to fool your resistance.
Time to fool around with ideas.
Have you fooled, spindled and mutilated your inner critic?
Take a breath and lighten up.
 
*"Life is too important to be taken seriously." ~O. Wilde

Whip Up a Kaizen-Muse Fool's Souffle

Curtain rises.
 
Tall, brownish blond, sort of clumsy, but most definitely enlightened writer gets ready to answer her creative call, the one with the ringtone that sounds like this or on more imaginatively grandiose days... like this. She wants to write.
 
Enter massive, seemingly insurmountable resistive energy [bluish gray]  that turns her largish forehead in the direction of the Internet, the TV, ANYTHING but what her soul is stipulating. Resistance sets in.[evil music]  She succumbs to her lower self. She doesn't respect herself in the morning. 
 
Sound familiar. Ring a bell? Read on.
 
The good news is .. rebellion is a characteristic of being creative. To rebel is to not conform. This serves the creative process.The bad news is that this good news isn't going to get you ANYWHERE unless you do a little fooling around that leads to getting started.
 
Let's tamper with the machinery of resistance dynamics, shall we?
 
Psst , over here.
Be vewy vewy quiet.
So quiet that all the things inside
of you that resist your creative
call are caught off-guard ...
are FOOLED.
You need a little Reverse Resistance.
 
Over here:
Reverse Resistance
Look non-chalant. Try this: When I really am serious about getting down to writing, I put the following on my to-do list:
  1. Spend hours on Facebook.
  2. Watch reruns of 30 Rock until you can recite Tina Fey's part by heart.
  3. Clean the crisper section of the fridge with the Dustbuster.
Now my resistance energy is a bit confused but still compliant with resisting my declared intentions - those are the ones on my list.
 
So ... drumroll... instead of doing what's on my to-do list...I rebel and write or paint or concoct my next workshop or answer whatever creative call would feel ever so intuitively wonderful to be engaged in. Creative bliss.. remember that? If you don't, maybe you need a creativity coach.
 
The other thing that works is deciding to focus on my art and telling myself I'm going to have an affair with my writing. Have an affair!... with your creative call. Make it enticing.
 
Sound foolish?
Try it.
 
11 Curtain Calls and a bouquet of lilies.
 
Next month I'll tell you about creative foreplay.
 
♪ ♩ ♫,
Jill
 
(C) Jill Badonsky all rights reserved.

April Fool's Hoaxes

See You in Rhode Island

  All That Matters  is that you come to Rhode Island and spend a weekend in a creatively adventure with me. Let's get together and share these crazy minds of ours... if you have read this far.. you most certainly are a kindred spirit. 
 
The Retreat:
We get to envelope ourselves in the unfolding secrets of how creativity can give your life more joy and meaning, play around with writing, art, and movement.
 
You will  break through the blocks that have kept you stuck for years like overwhelm, perfectionism, procrastination, self-sabotage and free-floating crankiness and meet up with the freedom and authenticity that has been waiting for you.
 
Join me if you love the creative process, if you're curious about the ever-expanding joyfilled reality with which creativity gifts its seekers, if you love to laugh, if you want tools to take with you to keep each day laced with creative wonder if you're curious about Kaizen-Muse creativity coaching, or if you need to get out of the house for a change.

click here for sign-up information

Links, Events, and a Duck

Click at your own risk:
 
An interview with the Modern day Muse, "Audacity" and Molly Anderson-Childers at Creativity Portal
 
Complimentary call next Thursday with Jill Badonsky: Unfolding Creativity with Age:  sign-up
 
The Muse is In Classes: click

The next Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification Training: click .  August - November 2010
 
Modern Day Muse(R) Facilitator Training: September 9-12, 2010: click
 
Fool's writing from The Muse is IN Writing Club: click
 
Nothing really
 
This cat will make you laugh.
 
 
Thanks for reading
 
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A Creativity Coach from New Zealand

 
Liz Gow, Certified Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach:
 
"I have been an Occupational Therapist for 15 years, working in mental health, hospice and rehab and I have always used creativity as a way to support a person to connect and regain value of who they are.  I am also a Life Coach with 5 years experience where regaining balance, reconnecting, working towards goals that are about passion and not ‘shoulds’, have been the focus. 
 
Since being exposed to KMCC, it is now the basis of my coaching because of the wonderful focus on creativity, what ever that may look like.  My own life now embraces creativity.  
 
I love the KMCC tools because they are so tangible and real, the wonderful small steps, absolute compassion, fun, use of intuition and trusting that we are absolutely good enough, allows the true essence of who we are to Emerge.    It is a privilege to walk along side someone and share their journey. I have used the KMCC tools and continue to do so.  My life now embraces creativity and I am fulfilled."

You can reach Liz at lizgow.lifecoach@vodafone.co.nz 

You are led through your life time by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. – Richard Bach – Illusions
 
 have been an Occupational Therapist for 15 years, working in mental health, hospice and rehab and I have always used creativity as a way to support a person to connect and regain value of who they are.  I am also a Life Coach with 5 years experience where regaining balance, reconnecting, working towards goals that are about passion and not ‘shoulds’, have been the focus.  Since being exposed to KMCC, it is now the basis of my coaching because of the wonderful focus on creativity, what ever that may look like.  My own life now embraces creativity. I have used the tools and still do to live the life you and I were meant to live, deserve.  
 
I love the KMCC tools because they are so tangible and real, the wonderful small steps, absolute compassion, fun, use of intuition and trusting that we are absolutely good enough, allows the true essence of who we are to Emerge.    It is a privilege to walk along side someone and share their journey.  

Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching

 
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