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Create Your Year Virtual Event
Writers, Artists, Musicians, Creative Professionals, Entrepreneurs…
Step into a clear, creative and compelling 2017 with practical and fun processes to:
-Map out your income (in new innovative and simpler ways)
-Enjoy time and energy for your creative practice, your income-producing work AND your family
-Prioritize your projects
In short, the perfect place to plan a creative life that you love for 2017. Walk away from this event with clarity, confidence and plans in hand.
Create Your Year Virtual Event
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
10 AM- 3 PM Pacific Time / 1 PM – 6 PM Eastern Time
(Recording available for registered participants only)
Only $37 if you Register BEFORE 5 PM Pacific Time / 8 PM Eastern on Friday, January 6th PLUS receive a private jumpstart session with Patricia to get your year off on the right foot.
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“Since working with Patricia Morrison, I have found more than clarity. I have found a way to work through my anxieties and sense of overwhelm, and also have learned tools to help keep me organized, focused and on purpose. I have thoroughly enjoyed our working together!”
-Marci Geller, Singer/Songwriter
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Register Here: https://bit.ly/2h9ttVs
$47 After January 6th
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“Meeting Patricia was like chocolate meeting peanut butter—I already brought creativity and commitment to my craft, but she brought the big-picture strategies and business sensibilities to synergize my work into something successfully shared with the world. She has helped me shift my mentality from that of a starving amateur to a respected professional.”
-Nancy Stohlman, author and lead singer of Kinky Mink
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Register Here: https://bit.ly/2h9ttVs
Also includes prep work and suggested materials, with the opportunity for spotlight coaching focused on your particular situation!
Vote For Your Own Creative Vision
No matter what happens in our national and local elections, the most important vote you may make will be a vote of confidence in your own creative vision. One way to make that is to attend an event in your area where you get support, structure, and sustenance for moving your creative ideas forward so you:
- Earn More
- Stress Less
- Make A Bigger Difference In The World
- Gain Focus & Clarity
- Reboot Your Inner Enthusiasm
Here are a couple of options:
Saturday, November 12th
Creative Entrepreneur Roundtable
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Saturday, November 19th
Inner Fire, Outer Light will be offering a workshop on walking the dual path of creative career and creative business
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Saturday, December 3rd
Springtime
What is springing up in you?
Here’s what’s happening in the Inner Fire, Outer Light World.
Inner Fire Spring Retreat in Santa Fe! There are still a few rooms left as of April 1st.
Colorado Creative Industries Summit in Fort Collins. We’ll be there. Will you?
LOVING our new FARM! See photos below. This is one of our life dreams come true.
Where Is Love Leading You In 2015?
Led By Love 2015 is the VIRTUAL mini-retreat accessible anywhere and also a live 1-day retreat in Ashland, Oregon.
YOU:
-Are discerning the focus of your next phase in life
-Want to be led by love in your life
-Know where are you being called, but don’t have any idea how to get there
-Are led to share your vision and voice as your livelihood
-Have a dozen great ideas a day, but aren’t sure how to bring them to life
-Are straddling the need to earn income with your desire to follow your heart
In This Retreat You Will:
-Discern where love is leading you
-Develop a map of best next steps to follow that pull
-Prioritize your ideas and plans so you can focus
-Discover where income and your leading/vision intersect, so you CAN follow your heart
-Meet heart-centered friends who will accompany you on the journey
It will be chock full of engaging creative hands-on activities and deepening reflections that will help you gain clarity, focus, direction, and a clear sense of how to go about faithfully following the lead of love towards a life that serves both you and the hungry world.
Includes BONUS participation in the AM Adventures online program for 2 months! Boost your creativity, focus, energy, and fitness within a safe fun group of fellow creatives.
REGISTER HERE: https://form.jotform.us/
Prepare To Relax While Your Creative Projects & Dreams Prepare To Leap Forward!
Everyday Adventure
I had such fun adventuring, taking these photos and making this video for you, thanks for taking 4 and a half minutes to watch and share it with someone who needs some everyday adventure in their life.
AM Adventures will launch soon! To get all the details, including a special early-bird offer with some of my favorite goodies added, be sure you’ve clicked here and said, YES.
Vacation or Retreat? What restoration do you need?
Now is a great time to discover what kind of restoration you really need before summer is over. Use this simple guide to choose between 3 options and let me know how it goes, OK?
1. Vacation
If you feel:
- Content with the direction of your life
- Sleepy, tired, worn out
- Ready to reconnect with people you care about
When:
Plan ahead, since much of the joy of a vacation is in the anticipation, although even a last-minute weekend getaway can do the trick
What to do:
- Focus on rest and enjoying being with the people you are vacationing with, rather than packing a full schedule.
- Hint: you can certainly vacation alone, but if you really want solitude, one of the other two options may be a better fit.
- Reading, sleeping, walking/hiking, talking, eating, doing puzzles are all great options.
- If you are going someplace with great sites to see, focus on one or two highlights and then let the rest be based on what you feel like doing each day. Leave to-do lists at home.
Where to go:
It’s up to you, but make sure the amount of travel time/ travel hassle is worth it for the time you’ll be away. Strive to have as much time just being there as possible.
- Discouraged, stuck, uninspired, or like you forgot how to care
- Prickly, fragile, overwhelmed, or on the verge of depression
- Lost in transition, unclear about what’s next, in need of perspective
- Detached from your true self, soul, spiritual life, nature
- Disorganized, unfocused, or ineffective
- Most retreat centers and guided retreats have their best rates well in advance and planning ahead will give you a sense of calm right away, but even a couple of weeks or a month ahead, you can often find a retreat with space and reasonable rates.
- Retreats don’t have to be long to provide a real recharge. If you can’t get away for a week, an extended weekend will work well. Even a Friday night and Saturday can do wonders.
- If you are attending a facilitated retreat, there will be activities planned and meals provided. Always use your own best judgement about what you need. You can certainly attend some things and keep to yourself when needed. Some retreats even have solo time built in.
- The outcomes of a retreat can be powerful and they are almost always internal. Instead of going with a goal to finish a project, open yourself to making inward leaps and bounds so you can go home and have everything work better.
- For an unguided solo experience, camping, a friend’s unoccupied house or cabin, or a religious retreat center can be a great way to have quiet time at a reasonable cost
- For a guided and supported experience, reach out to facilitators, guides, and mentors you trust. Many of them may already lead retreats and would be happy for you to attend.
- Delaine Due, art therapist & founder of People’s Art & I lead two Creativity Now! retreats each year, the fall one in Southern OR, September 25th-28th and the spring one in Santa Fe, NM, April 16th-19th, 2015.
- Antsy, anxious, or impatient
- You have an urgent need that needs to be addressed (professional, income, relationship, health, or other vital need)
- You know where you are headed, but aren’t sure how to get there
- Don’t let the anxiety build. Reach out. Assess several programs to see what is the best fit for you and then step bravely into a commitment that will support long-term growth and change.
- If you have multiple urgent needs and goals, look to see which one might put you back on stable footing to deal with the rest, if it got attention right away.
- Again, this is about relationship and trust. Begin within. Commit to yourself that you are ready to make a change and that you will stick with that commitment by investing time, belief and money (wisely, of course).
- Instead of surfing the web randomly, start with those mentors, guides, and trusted advisors you know. If they don’t offer what you need, they will guide you in the right direction.
- Click here to claim a Creative Clarity Jumpstart with me, if you’d like some direction.
Upcoming Events- Summer 2014
Where is income hiding in the work you’ve already created and the skills you already have? Dig into your gifts to discover the treasure of a creative and profitable life hidden there.
What Spring Flowers Teach Us
It has turned to a wildly flowering spring here in Southern Oregon. At the same time, some very dear people in my universe have passed on.
Taken together, these events are a reminder of why we are here and inspire me to follow the example of the spring flowers.
Bloom Now!
What if you bloomed like crazy now, before you’re certain you have it figured out, before it is perfect, before you have the credentials, time, money?
What if you were forsythia and cherry?
What if you shared and sold and valued the gifts you have, your passions, your art now, in the springtime, without worrying about what summer and fall will bring?
Because, sometimes there is an early frost and we don’t get the luxury of bearing full fruit. Wouldn’t it be better to be remembered for your flowers than to pass away without any glimpse of your true beauty reaching the world?
“The Days Are Long, But The Years Are Short”
-Gretchen Rubin
So, don’t delay in getting started. Another thing to remember is that, while people often overestimate what can be done in a short time, they also underestimate what can be done over a long time. This is the power of beginning and spending some time each day, week, or month on a project.
Everyday people have amassed fortunes, art collections, bodies of artwork, gorgeous gardens, cookbooks full of recipes, albums of photographs, basements full of canned goods, thousands of songs, and other kinds of wealth, simply by building it and working on it a little at a time.
What do you want to create?
Start now and set aside time each day, week, or month for the next year.
Let me know how it goes!
Please share this with a friend who might be stuck in tight bud stage and needs a nudge to open up and bloom!
If you know you would be more courageous, focused, & effective with some structure and support, click here to be in touch, so we can schedule some time to help you determine your best next steps.
You Have The Key To Creative Success
You already have the key to creative success!
Remember when you were a child, or a young adult, or even a mature adult, that moment in which you declared, decided, and announced that you ARE an artist?
You might have said it differently. You might have said, writer, actor, painter, poet, singer, chef, healer, or something else, but the key is that you declared it to yourself and to the world, quite likely BEFORE you had incontrovertable proof to offer that world.
Your were brave and bold and audacious.
And, you never looked back.
That doesn’t mean you never had doubts. We all have doubts, even after incredible, incontrovertable success, about our abilities, or our direction, our genre of expression or a particular project. But, it’s likely you’ve never once considered giving up your creativity, not really. And, you’ve never truly lost your faith that your creativity will be there for you, that it is enough to carry you through. You might have feared that it would go away, you may have had moments of despair that it was dissappearing, but you’ve never totally lost the belief in its presence and sufficiency, despite everything.
Oh sure, you may have taken a full-time job doing something else, raised kids, subverted your creative dreams for yourself or others, but deep down, you’ve never let go of that identity, of your core belief in yourself as an artist, right?
I want you to pause and realize how absolutely amazing that is! Seriously. Everyone else waits until they have a degree or a job or some kind of outward stamp of approval before they claim their vocational identity. It’s true. Ever seen a child declare that they are a doctor? Not that they want to be a doctor or will be a doctor, but that they are, already, deep inside, a doctor? Doesn’t happen.
You are amazing!
OK, soaked that one in?
Now, here’s the thing. This very act, this declaration and faith and life of following through to make good on that promise to yourself.
This is your greatest and most unusual strength.
It is the key to:
- having enough income
- building the fanbase you need and want
- gaining the recognition that will make it all worthwhile
- making the impact in the world you long to make.
And, you’ve had this key since you were young, hanging in a locket around your heart of hearts.
“Well, that’s just dandy,” you may be thinking. “If I’ve had that key all along, why don’t I have those things in abundance in my life already?”
Think about keys for a minute. Have you ever, when you’ve been doing some deep cleaning, come across and old key and wondered what the heck it opens?
Having the key isn’t everything, but it is a great start!
Knowing what it unlocks is the next step. See that list above? That is just the beginning of what this key can unlock in your life.
What is it you need to unlock?
Then, finding the doors and using it to unlock them, open them, and walk through to that fulfilled life of creative success.
This the part we do together. Through my programs, retreats, and workshops, I remind you of what’s on your keychain, help you choose what you need to unlock and create a path to get to those doors, plus the courage to open them and walk through once you get there.
If you’re already working with me, be sure to engage fully, so we can do as much of this for you as you are ready for right now.
If you aren’t, I would invite you to open the locket, give yourself some love for having such a powerful key and get the support you need to unlock what your life needs so your gifts can shine brightly and sustainably for a world in need of your light!