Welcome to Creativity week!

CREATIVITY – The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.

Each week we concentrate on one of our habits. You've landed here for Creativity week.
Next week is all about Passion.

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Tuesdays with Chel

I am just thrilled to announce that Chel Micheline of Gingerblue has agreed to be a regular contributor for Bliss Habits. Each Tuesday Chel will be offering her perspectives on the weekly Bliss Habit.

From the moment I laid eyes on her lovely blog I knew I wanted Chel to be a part of Bliss Habits. First I fell in love with her common miracles project. Her ability to make gratitude accessible and real was moving, particularly since I often struggled with it. She does too, yet still finds pockets of such profound joy. Click on the photo below to learn more about how you can participate and/or just stop by for some inspiration.

 

Here is what she had to say about herself:

I’m an artist and art historian, an animal-lover, an athlete, a voracious reader, a mama (5-year old Gracie) and a wife (40-something Tom), and an amateur gardener.

I also consider myself something of a life-long student as I have always spent significant amounts of time researching and gathering bits of information about everything from Pangaea to paintbrushes.

In the course of my life, there have always been two topics that interested me more than any others: well-being and creative expression. Those two things are actually tricky for me because while my heart is easily swayed by anything it finds to be “enchanted”, my brain requires hard science to even consider something remotely possible. So it’s always a bit of a balancing act, and I spend a lot of my free time reading and exploring the topics of psychology, creativity, neuroscience, and spirituality and seeing if I can make them come together in a way that works for me.

I’m really pleased to be part of Bliss Habits because I feel like it fits in perfectly with the “life student” role I find myself in so often. I look forward to each week’s “Habit” and the insights that will come from the way in which this community shares and bounces ideas off one another.

I am certain you will look forward to Tuesday’s as much as I do now.

 

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PERMISSION TO PLAY : Creativity : #p2play

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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson This week, I was ready to start making art again. Well… sorta. I was ready to do *something* in my studio, something that involved paint and hole punches and paper and glue. But I didn’t want to think about it… Read more

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PERMISSION TO PLAY : Order : #p2play

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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.” – Steve Jobs When… Read more

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PERMISSION TO PLAY : Joy : #p2play

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If you know me outside of Bliss Habits, you may know that about two weeks ago, my beloved kitty, Delilah, passed away unexpectedly. I’m only sharing this because I wanted you to know that when this “Permission to Play” challenge *officially* started on Tuesday, I was in a very bad emotional place. I’ll be honest… Read more

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are you ready to play? #p2play starts next week!

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“To retain the simple playfulness of childhood through one’s riper years is what opens a person up to the creative possibilities within a situation.” – Denise Shekerjian “Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” – Mary Lou Cook “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious,… Read more

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FUN IS GOOD.

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“Fun is good.” – Dr. Seuss As you may know from reading my post from last week, I’m committed to trying to have some fun this summer, at least where my creativity is concerned. I started thinking this week about “fun stuff” from my childhood. I thought if I took a little time to figure… Read more

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reconnecting bliss & creativity – a creative challenge

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“The creative person is flexible – able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress.” - Frank Goble   So, this week’s Bliss Habit is flexibility and, as usual, I started thinking about it in relation to creativity. Almost immediately, a hard truth set in:… Read more

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