Choice

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We are not destined to be victims. We have the power to choose, and this power is both the greatest responsibility we have and the greatest opportunity.

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Hara Estroff Marano

Live Life

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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

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Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Let Your Light Shine

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If you listen closely you’ll hear a small voice hidden in the
dim shade of all your fears that whispers, “this isn’t real.”
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Jackson Kiddard

Writing to Your Depth

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If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal.

So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked.

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Anne Lamott

20 Words

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Comfort...

Familiar...

Ordinary.

{or}

Come to the Water

{to the}

Dream Giver

Warrior {you are}

{It's} time to 

Journey

Your Dream is

Unique and Important

{and only} yours...

The exercise is from the book Inner Excavation by Liz Lamoreaux.  It is from the section "Creating a Word Toolbox" and invites the reader to take a book off the shelf and pick the first 20 words that the reader is drawn to in the book.  The book I used is The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkinson.  

"The list is interesting to me.  The words that jump out really capture how this day (1/8/12) was for me.  I feel empowered.  The ideas were flowing and the tone of 2012 was set in an instant."

Reading over the list almost three months later, I feel like I have moved deeper into them.  The projects I am working on are not bringing instant gratification like the etsy shops usually do - meaning there is some cash flow.  I find myself second guessing the projects as a waste of time.  But I am following all the rules of my favorites creativity coaches and believing to God that when I am working out of my DEEPEST passion,  this will bring the success I am desiring.  I want to be able to support my family given the enormous sacrifice that has been made to pay for my education.  It seems somehow that this is the way the world is supposed to work, right?

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An Open Heart

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What’s difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard.  But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.

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Marianne Williamson

Making Room

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Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen.
We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.

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Anna Quindlen