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TIPS FOR REKINDLING THE ARTIST WITHIN YOU

Missing: One artist
Last Seen: Alive and well somewhere within you, long ago, in what felt like a much better time and place
Reward: Reinstatement of personal creative fulfillment

Just when you thought the artist within you had disappeared forever...you receive some encouraging signs of hope for an overdue rescue.

You are an artist. You were born an artist and you'll be an artist on the day that you die. Like life and everything alive, you are dynamic and you change slightly everyday with each of the moments that make up the layers of your existence. Along your journey, you'll often encounter periods when you masochistically succeed, for whatever reason, in smothering your inner artist. Everyone contends with this, but what separates you from others is your ability to declare these periods 'times of creative-self repair.' Apply patience and trust that you'll soon move forward into a new and improved phase of invigorated creativity.

Below are some guidelines to help convince the new and improved artist within you that it's time to emerge.

1. Reconstruct your creative environment.
Our surroundings affect us on so many levels, consciously and subconsciously; it's not surprising that sometimes we can't determine specifically how we've clogged our creative arteries. If you've lost the access to your creative flow, consider changing something around you. Significant or not, make yourself a new haven for creation. Clear out a corner to call your own. If you're short on space, find an easily accessible place nearby to go that allows you forget the world and reconnect with the deepness of your artistic self.

2. Invest in a few new supplies.
It's possible for artists to have relationships with everything - and sometimes in our sets of tools, we let memories of disliked or discarded projects resonate from the past. This definitely stunts the potential for fresh new creations to materialize. How much is revitalized inspiration worth to you? Start over. Pick up new paper, paint, pencils, brushes or palettes whatever it is that you need to get excited for opportunities to make a few new first impressions again.

3. Book an appointment with your creativity.
Will three o'clock work for you? Make a schedule. If you're finding that there's no point during the day or week that you're feeling creative in any way determine a random one and set yourself up for some counseling with your creativity. Allocate time each day twenty minutes, one hour, whatever

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