Wednesday, July 14, 2010
What If and Wishes Bombshell..Julia Cameron
Today’s Bombshell is Julia Cameron. Julia’s virtual mentorship ties in quite nicely with Wednesday What If’s and Wishes. Today’ wish prompt: What do I wish to focus on? My What If’s…which are always under the umbrella of No Excuses..are as follows:
What if I trusted myself, particularly my creative ideas and talents, more?
What if I started sending out proposals for my book (That has just sat in the archives of my flash drive and drafts folder and in my numerous morning pages journals for too many years)
What if I completed my bombshell drawings and displayed my own art?
And lastly, What if I finally included the focus on the Artist’s Dates and Creative Clusters that I have wanted to belong to and add as a habit not just a want?
The simple, yet complicated, multi-faceted answer to What do I wish to focus on…is ME! My creativity! Julia Cameron’s books (I have at least 5) have been a huge part of my life for a little over 15 years. I have found that the part of me I hide the most and I am slowly moving out of..is my creative, visionary, artistic self. I fell into the role of responsible, get the job done, don’t waste time, pay the bills, stay secure and safe, be all and everything to everyone else BUT yourself. While deep inside my soul, is a creative girl who wants to draw, write stories, sing and dance.
Yesterday, I took time for me, and YES! today I will too. We had to bury our family pet, Chili the Chinchilla, Monday. It went in for a routine procedure at the Vet’s and did not wake up from the anesthesia. What was in my face more, was that we have only been in this home, a year and a half. It is a home I envisioned for myself, actually drew pictures of it and wrote a letter from the future about it. I have buried four family pets here in that short amount of time. Each loss adds to the other and I have been there to help my kids through it.
So once again, I was faced with What If’s, Wishes, Losses, and NO EXCUSES!
An idea that has been kicking around in my head and NOW I will be moving forward with is creating what Julia Cameron refers to as a Creative Cluster. I set up a forum a couple of weeks ago and now I am moving forward with the idea. On Wednesday, July 28, two weeks from now, I want to start the 12 week journey of the Artists Way, A Spiritual Path to Creativity. My biggest excuse is denying that part of myself, so I am going to FOCUS on that. If you would like to join me, pull out your Artist Way book, or pop over to Amazon and purchase one and come join me. Email me jules (at) biggirlbombshell.com and let me know you are joining the Creative Cluster.
And my last What IF with No Excuses.. I would quit trying to fit in, and in the words of MizFit, become Unapologetically Myself™, and she might just let me grace the presence of her humble abode. (Maybe I can have a two for one and she will let Mrs. Fatass out of the basement so I can at least catch a glimpse of the infamous hotass.
So what about you? Want to join me? What have been your excuses? What are some of your What If’s? What are you willing to focus on to kill the excuses monster? Pop over to MizFit’s and do the No excuses T shirt exercise and then tomorrow, come visit me over there!
We had a chinchilla too! Also no longer with us. It belonged to my teen. We went through quite an interesting time with him when he got some eye thing and we had to visit the animal ophthalmologist. Who knew they had such a thing!?
July 14, 2010 at 7:08 amGreat post and I would definitely be interested in joining along in The Artists Way group. As you wish for yourself today, I lovingly wish for you as well!
July 14, 2010 at 7:27 amYou and Miz are living it as I wrote over there! Can’t wait to read the guest post tomorrow! And, really cool posy today. You finally are finding you!
I am still working at it & not as brave as you & Miz yet. I challenge myself in the gym all the time & that is a big thing to me… at 52, I do things that many half my age do not so I have to give myself credit for that. Outside the gym, still working & not as brave…
July 14, 2010 at 7:49 amAs Jules wishes for herself, I wish for her as well. I think forming your own online Artist’s Way group is a wonderful idea. It is a huge step in making all of your “What ifs? turn into “I did!”
July 14, 2010 at 7:59 amUnapologetically Myself – Ha! good signature and have in mind s particular person I need to respond to. What “if”…
July 14, 2010 at 9:21 amI too am a fan of Julia Cameron for years and her “Artists” books changed my life (my novel became a reality.) Also, I find most helpful Louise Hay. When faced with a “I should” turn it to “I could” and then ask “why don’t you?” You get your answer – do or don’t and move onto what something more fulfilling. Keep your blogs coming!
I am a big, huge, sloppy, over-the-top morning pages writing Julia Cameron fan, too — and guess what my wish included this morning? I am noticing the “C” word splashed across many of our wishes this morning: “COMPLETION!”
YAY! for us having the courage to speak it and then, together, having the courage to create it.
As Jules wishes for herself, so I wish for her also, whole heart and soul…
I wish!
July 14, 2010 at 9:26 amI am sorry for your loss – pets are just as much a part of the family as the humans in the household.
The Creative Cluster is such a neat idea; I like that. We spend so much of our time saying why we can’t do this or why we’re afraid to do that, but if we just buckle down and DO what we want to do, we can accomplish many things! Thanks for this
July 14, 2010 at 10:14 amAs you wish for yourself, I too wish this for you.
July 14, 2010 at 10:21 amOh Jules I’m sorry about Chili. Sad. Do you have pictures? I love to see people’s pets.
I love love love your idea about the online forum too. Of course! I’ve had way too many excuses and one of them is that I have way too many ideas and wishes and dreams that I often feel like I have too much to do and not enough time so I end up focusing on a couple things and letting others slide. Writing is something that I’ve let slide because I’m too busy with work or with roller skating now or with getting my personal trainer cert or with learning Punk Rope or with …… everything else.
I definitely want to participate in your forum. I think it’ll help me figure out what I want to do for sure and where I want to go and how I’m going to get there. Brilliant idea!
July 14, 2010 at 1:48 pmOh Jules, I’m so sorry to hear of the loss of your little Chili and your other pets in the past year and a half. A friend of mine had a chinchilla years ago and it was the sweetest little thing. I also did a chinchilla ornament in clay for a customer one year. Very cute little critters.
I LOVED the Artist’s Way when I first discovered it. I created more art in those 12 weeks then I had in YEARS before it. I think I would really like to participate in your Creative Cluster.
And as you wish for yourself, so I wish for you also.
July 14, 2010 at 2:13 pmI’m so sorry to hear of the loss of Chili. It’s so sad when they have to leave us.
I love your idea of the online forum–I hope it’s a smashing success! As you wish for yourself, so I wish for you as well.
July 14, 2010 at 2:28 pmSorry to hear about Chili, as Jules wishes for herself, I wish for her also.
July 14, 2010 at 3:54 pmJules, not sure exactly what you have in mind, but I am intrigued. I have the book at home–unused! The only writing I’ve been doing lately is blogging, so I need to kick start something.
July 14, 2010 at 5:59 pmJules – I’m so sorry for the losses you have experienced. It’s so sad. I think your idea is very interesting – keep me posted.
July 14, 2010 at 8:27 pmGreat writing as always! I feel for your loss of your pet–I’ve lost much loved pets unexpectedly too and it can really flip your world for a while. I found that knowing that I was lucky to be the human on earth that the pet chose to live with for their short life very comforting.
I love the idea of the Creative Cluster–I’m trying to be join creative groups.
As Jules wishes for herself, so I wish for her also!
July 15, 2010 at 9:54 amArtist’s dates were my big bugaboo too… I tried… some alone, some with a small group of creativity sisters… but it always felt artificial. A real artist’s date for me is to allow myself two, uninterrupted, consecutive days to paint… splish, splash, color on paper, improvisational, quick, fun! Thanks for the reminder… I haven’t painted like that in quite a long time!
July 19, 2010 at 5:44 pm