Do you think your success and joy in life depends upon how creative you are and how willing you are to act boldly on your creative ideas?
Many people do, and in Audacious Creativity: 30 Ways to Liberate Your Soulful Creative Energy—and How It Can Transform Your Life, compiled and edited by my friend Stephanie Gunning, you will meet 30 notable professionals who share their creative stories on how to make better decisions, design a vision for a fulfilling future, overcome the fear of self-expression, access your inner genius, get into the flow of universal energy, manifest wealth, raise good kids, enjoy optimal health, and lead an energized lifestyle.
My personal contribution, “The Creative Voice—A Bridge Between the Tangible and the Intangible,” appears on p. 29 in the book.
The search to understand what it means to be a human being in a complex world is constant. The phrase “audacious creativity” comes from the recognition that it takes a good deal of heart and guts to live as a bold and unfettered creator. It is audacious to dream out loud or speak your truth. It is audacious to be original, colorful, and sincere.
It’s easy to find yourself having the same conversations, handling the same types of projects, facing the usual challenges and coming up with the accustomed solutions in everyday life. But predictability is the death of creativity. It dulls our perception and problem-solving ability. The only problem is that we often have no conception of how to begin to stimulate our senses or liberate ourselves from a predictable routine.
Audacious Creativity will inspire you to be a “working creator”—to learn to study your character and develop specific processes for being the person that is uniquely you. You don’t get fooled as easily as you once would have by your mind’s puzzles. Your spiritual and humanitarian toolkit expands. You get more resourceful, and, in time, you understand how to move yourself through states of being. You realize how to support yourself to handle change and how to be successful at simply being you.
The transformative creative journeys of these 30 highly creative people from many different fields will provide the inspiration for you to take your own journey. Learn techniques, rituals, visualizations, and proven courses of action that can help you to prepare your body, mind, spirit, and home for audacious creation.
Isn’t it time that you allowed your own bright light to shine in the world—audaciously?
You have the right to be bold!
(Thanks to Stephanie Gunning for providing much of the content of this article.)
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This is an excellent article!
One of the hardest things to do as a creative person, is to continue on with your dreams, when everyone around you thinks you’re a fool for doing so!
It takes guts to believe in your creative intuition. And it takes guts to stick with it till success.
Funny how the same people who thought you a fool, admire you (or sometimes are jealous of you)later when you succeed. Probably wishing they had some ‘Audacious Creativity’ of their own!
I agree…it’s definitely a learning curve to trust ourselves rather that all the opinions ‘out there’
K
I just bought the book and that is how I found you, and your websites. I am looking forward to reading all the writings in it as I work to complete my Creative Life Coach Master Coach program.
Thanks.
Kathy, welcome. Nice to know you found me through the book!