Are You Creative?

[dilyku]

Beginning in July 2003, we will begin exploring ways to make our lives richer, more inspiring and fertile grounds for our creative spirits. We will begin by supporting one another as we work through Take Time for Your Life by Cheryl Richardson, as we believe the first step is to clear the clutter from our paths. Then we'll move on to another book, then another, then... some of the books will be focused specifically on creativity, some may be more general self-help books. Whatever the group decides we want and need next!

Come join us if you're serious about your creative persuits. You don't have to be a "professional," and you don't have to have lots of experience, publications, exhibits, or whatevers in your portfolio. But you do need to be ready to remake yourself into a truly Inspired artist, whatever your venue.

Sheila & Diana

If you are interested please contact sheilaboneham or dilyku.

[sheilaboneham]

Woops -- we didn't include the address for the information about InspirationSoup. My fault!

My email is perennialwriter@aol.com, or you can go directly to the group's home page at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Inspirationsoup/

Hope to see some of you creative types there!

Sheila

[sagithree]

Hi Girls! :)

Coincidence? Hmmm. Last week I began re-reading Cheryl's "Take Time For Your Life". I've been searching for a support group to work with. Then, up pops your message about starting a group.

I've also read Cheryl's Lifemakeovers. Along with many other helpful sources picked up through Oprah's show.

I've been involved with 2 groups already, but people either drop out, or they aren't serious about life changes. They complain about all that's wrong with their lives but aren't willing to take control. I understand the fear of change & the unknown. It's not easy for any of us to remake our lives.

I'm unwilling to sit on the sidelines of my life. I need a group to work with. So I've made it my mission to search for what I need. And what I need are some like-minded gals who are willing to "jump in" to the pool together! :)

I find your group of interest as I've dabbled with photography, writing, music and am hoping to get more "creative".

Do you have some specifics on your group's agenda? When you'd meet? etc.

Sagithree

[dilyku]

We are looking for individuals just like you! We have not gotten as far as when we will meet... Since we are in the formative stages, ideas are welcome. Group members definately have input so I say come on and jump right in! Complaints will have to be kept to a minimum and hopefully we will find a core group of people that want to work together to get on with their lives. If you want to join us you can go to the Yahoo address listed here in Sheila's last post. We are starting August 1st and we are determining right now by a poll to members how many weeks we will devote to a chapter of the book Take Time... Hope to see you there.

Let us know what is good for you too! Diana

[dilyku]

August 1st will be when the Inspiration Soup group will begin the exercises in the book "Take Time for Your Life". Cheryl recommends reading the books straight through before beginning, and having done so, Sheila and I recommend that approach as well. (Even if you can't get through the whole book by Aug. 1, you can still make a start.) I think some of the chapters will be more difficult for some of us than others, and of course there's plenty of overlap.

If we spend a month per chapter, it will take 7 months to complete the book. Or we could try for 2 chapters per month, with a couple weeks at the end for summing up what we've accomplished, and do it in 4 months. For this we are asking feed back from members please! Personally we would prefer to try to work through the book in 4 months. I know that we will have to work on the suggestions in most chapters for a long time, but if we don't move ahead we may get bogged down. It would be better to keep moving and look for the synergistic effect of getting all our ducks in a row, not just one or two of them.

Again, after we finish with "Take Time for Your Life" we can have a poll to see what books might be good for us next and then poll to decide which one we will go through. Sheila and I were thinking "Stand Up for Your Life" or possibly another book with creativity in mind such as "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. That is why we are looking for a group of artisans, a group of like-minded people.


Sincerely, Sheila & Diana