Note to Self: Practice Makes Progress NOT Perfection!
So I today I posted two videos on YouTube. YEAH! Funny thing is, I thought this was the first time I had posted anything and I sent a note out to the world calling it “Nanette’s first video”. And it wasn’t. I had actually posted one a few weeks ago, but I’d forgotten. I forgot because when I heard the fuzzy sound quality I got insanely frustrated trying to “fix” it and when, after hours of trying, I couldn’t make it perfect, I just gave up the video project. AND COMPLETELY FORGOT I’D EVEN POSTED... [Read more]
Meet Daisy Distraction. Creating Characters for Self Growth.
Why is it that when I get these HUGE bursts of creative energy I am so easily pulled away from finishing the task? Just when I’ve got the plan laid out, the design outlined, all the pieces in place, I’m drifting off to other unimportant things. Meet “Daisy Distraction”! I’ve written about my friend “Fearsome Freddie” before. Freddie is my FEAR gremlin. Whenever I get paralyzed by fear, visualizing the cartoon character I created helps me realize how silly most of my fears really are. He’s become part... [Read more]
How Can I…?
Funny how the universe works…when I’m paying attention, listening and opening myself up to the messages and lessons I’m meant to hear. Even if it is over and over again! You see, even though I’ve spent many years making personal development a priority in my life and I’ve developed a self-care practice that I know keeps me grounded, AND supports me to live a life I love, I have to admit that sometimes I allow myself to wallow in my old bad habits and tune into noise and distraction rather than to inspiration. Negative... [Read more]
Tell me, please, what do you expect from a coach?
A few weeks ago I began the first in a series of courses I am taking on my quest to become a Certified Creativity Coach through the Creativity Coaching Association. Each week we are asked thought provoking questions and required to post our responses for the group to see. This week, as I wrote my response, I realized that I was speaking from a perspective that was entirely my own, assuming that my prospective clients would see things as I do. As this realization became clearer, that I was envisioning a client’s desired coaching outcomes as identical... [Read more]
A New Year…A New You? Not me.
I’ve been pondering all the blogposts, invites, event announcements I’ve been getting since the beginning of this month, and our entry in this new decade, that all speak to this idea of a “New You”. Over the past two years, I’ve even participated in events, even as a speaker, with a “New You” in the title. And yet, today I’m sure that I don’t want to ever be creating a new me. What I’ve learned is that my mission, my purpose, is not to create a new me, but to uncover the true me, the... [Read more]
