The Key to Creative Flow: Learn the Four C’s To Enhance Your Creativity

Posted on August 18, 2009 by admin

Valery is an Artist Mindset Mentor and Coach who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can overcome the struggles that often come with the life of artists of every kind. Clients learn how to express their full potential to create more passionately, profoundly, productively & profitably.

Just as learning your ABC’s are fundamental to a basic education, learning the Four C’s of Creativity are essential to life as a powerful and deliberate creator of your art and your life experience. If you are not living a life abundant with new inspiration and enthusiasm for your creative challenges then it is likely you are missing one of the C’s, a key ingredient to the recipe for boosting your creative flow.

The four C’s of Creative Flow are:

1. Centering

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.” – Albert Einstein

When you are centered, in alignment with the truth of who you are, life flows effortlessly. Your moments are largely spent “in the zone” of your creative spirit. You are engaged, unaware of the passage of time and firing on all cylinders of your artistic expression and life potential.

When you are un-centered, not in harmony with your authenticity life becomes a tiresome and often anxiety ridden struggle. You work exhaustively trying to fulfill the inauthentic expectations, the ‘shoulds and must do’s” demanded of you by yourself and others. Your heart longs to express and create one thing yet you hold yourself back to pursue another, often perceptively safer, path.

You may get brilliant at creating these false expectations but they will leave you unfulfilled, living a life of desperation.

2. Choice

“How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.” – Don Childre

Once you acknowledge and honor your truth, stand centered in the truth of who you are, it is necessary to base the choices you make and the actions you take upon this truth. If you step off your center, make a choice that is not in alignment with your center then you will struggle. Your creative flow will be blocked leaving you frustrated and unable to fully and effectively express yourself in your work and in your life.

If your choices are not grounded in your center, your core of being, you will not create the outcomes you desire. A choice acted upon and based on your truth will deliver the outcome, and experience, you want to create. A choice to take a different path, limit yourself and your possibilities in any way will create “less than” or even a train-wreck of an experience.

Choices that speak your truth feel good. Choices that belie your truth feel bad. It’s as simple as that.

3. Commitment

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” – Vince Lombardi

If you show up in your life centered in your truth, making choices that honor that truth you must commit yourself to honoring the choices you make. If you quit or hold yourself back in any way then you have made a new choice that is not in alignment with your center. You have strayed from your path of authenticity and the road to creating the art you wish to express and experiences you desire.

Staying committed to yourself requires trust in and love of yourself. What you long for is your birthright. It is what you are here to create. It is your purpose in life, that is why you feel its calling deep within your soul. Even if the journey is a bit arduous, if you are committed to YOU the experience will be exciting and fulfilling.

4. Challenge

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon

It is a challenge to stay committed to your choices and center of truth. You will be called upon time and time again to stretch beyond your current comfort zone. Moving beyond what you know is unknown and, therefore, scary. In your fear you may Find Excuses And Reasons (F.E.A.R.) to step back from your commitment, your choices and your core of being.

You may not like your current comfort zone and say you want to achieve certain goals but if you discover that you are serving up excuses why you, others, or circumstance prevent you from maintaining your commitment then know that you are in a state of fear. Just take a deep breath. Breathe out. Center yourself. Listen to what your inner being wants. Let go of the voice of that incessant Inner Critic who works hard to keep you safe. Keeping you safe to this well-meaning yet woefully misguided egoic part of you is to keep you right where you are. It’s what you know so it’s safe.

There you have it, the four C’s of Creative Flow. As with learning how to ride a bicycle, you may fall on your butt a time or two as you apply these lessons in your life. That’s ok. Just brush yourself off and get back on your bike! Enjoy the ride.

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Stuck in a Creative Rut? You May Be Following Fools Rules

Posted on August 8, 2009 by admin

Life is a game. Whether you enjoy life or not depends upon the rules – your own personal rules of life.

Whether you realize it or not you guide your life, make your choices, based upon a set of rules you selected for yourself in early childhood. These rules were based on misinterpretation or complete unchallenged acceptance of whatever was seen or heard. A well-meaning relative who tells a child “Don’t be stupid” as she is about to put mustard on the cookie dough becomes Rule #1: I AM STUPID. A teacher’s remark that a child is not performing to her potential becomes Rule #2: I AM NOT GOOD ENOUGH. A well-meaning parent’s warning “Don’t talk to strangers” becomes Rule #3: STRANGERS WILL HURT ME.

“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” – Henry David Thoreau

The rules you have taken on for yourself that do not support you hold you back. If you believe you are stupid you will not attempt creative challenges that require intelligence. If you think you are not good enough you won’t allow yourself to reach for what you desire to achieve in your craft. If you think strangers can inflict harm you may resist public speaking.

Your Inner Critic, often the fool, is the manager of these rules. Since you adopted these rules, you can change them. You can take away the power your Inner Critic has to shape your choices and possibilities around these rules. You have the power to create NEW RULES!

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.” – Dr. Seuss

Be mindful of the thought patterns and internal belief systems (your rules) that form the decisions you make, the direction you take in life. If you discover that they are negative and unsupportive take note. If, for example, you recognize the “I am stupid” rule being served up by that Inner Critic of yours, look for evidence of a new rule – “I AM SMART”. Examine your life and look for experiences where you made a choice that benefited you and others. Look for examples of the opposite. Create a newer, better, rule to believe in.

“The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.” – Winston Churchill

Project this exercise out into other areas in your life. For example, if you believe that women over 40 years of age cannot get a good role in a movie look to the many women over 40 who are, indeed, getting great juicy parts in major motion pictures. Meryl Streep, Heather Locklear, Diane Lane, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cindy Crawford, Glenn Close, Ellen Barkin, Marcia Cross, Helen Mirren, Sarah Jessica Parker, Diane Keaton, Lauren Graham, Mary-Louise Parker, Frances McDormand, Laura Linney, Dame Judi Dench, Sally Field, and Emma Thompson are just a few of the many women over 40 who are actively working and enjoying successful acting careers.

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.” – Samuel Butler

Your Inner Critic whispers your old misguided set of rules to you when you are about to stretch beyond your current comfort zone. This frightened little child within works hard to keep you safe although it is very misguided on what will keep you safe. It fears change of any kind. Change is unknown and therefore frightful. Rely on the power that you have within you that is your birthright. I playfully call this internal resource of self-esteem and wisdom the Wizard Within. When in doubt, ask what your Wizard Within would choose to believe and do. Change your rules to change your life!

“We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears. – Albert Einstein

Valery is an Artist Mindset Mentor and Coach who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can overcome the struggles in the life of a visual & performing artist. Clients learn how to express their full potential to create more passionately, profoundly, productively and profitably. Empower the Wizard Within to actualize and express your full creative potential. http://www.InnerWizard.com . Free “Empower the Wizard Within tips”!

Creatively Stressed: Anxiety is NOT the Enemy!

Posted on July 26, 2009 by admin

You’re obsessed. You’re obsessed with your work, your craft. You think about your art, your character, painting, sculpture, upcoming tour, or screenplay seemingly every waking minute of every day. Heck, you even dream about it!

This fiendish infatuation with your craft, the passion that drives you to get out of bed in the morning is a wonderful gift. Why is it, then, that this fixation on what makes the earth move for you can also stop you dead in your tracks? Cold. Left abandoned by the “What if’s” or “I’m not enough’s” or any version of “I can’t because”.

What starts as a life-affirming energizer bunny within you becomes a taunting dragon that tortures you day in and day out. You feel like there is no escape. If you walk away from what your heart is calling you to become you trade desire for a lifetime of despair. Anxiety.

What is anxiety? Anxiety is worry, anticipation for a future misfortune. Anxiety is irrational fear. Rational fear is real. You fear fire if you’re in a burning house because fire will deliver great harm to you if you just sit there. Irrational fear is worry that your house might burn to the ground as you sleep when there is no sign of fire, no observable hint of a pending fire, as you rest your head on your pillow. Irrational fear is despair over potential bad reviews of your work. You spend your days in desperate anxiety over what you think will be a career, or life-ending, dose of criticism. You believe that your future will be ruined if your performance or creation doesn’t meet with high approval and reward. You think your life will be meaningless; you will have no value or purpose.

And, in your anxiety, you are stuck. You’re frozen on your path like the proverbial deer in the headlights. You Find Excuses And Reasons (F.E.A.R.) to put off moments of judgment. You never finish your painting, screenplay or composition. You blow off your audition because you think your boss won’t let you have the afternoon off. And then you beat yourself up over your procrastination and missed opportunity. And what you fear becomes even more real to you.

Nonsense!

Your anxiety can work for you! Anxiety is just a signal. It is a signal to your Higher Self that you are about to stretch out of your current comfort zone; about to grow. You are about to enter into unknown territory and that ego within you, the Inner Critic, is spooked. Just observe. Notice when your Inner Critic, the voice that delivers your self-doubt and fear, is freaked out. Know that in that moment you have a choice. You can give your personal power over to your Inner Critic, let him lead your choice and stay right where you are where it is ‘safe’. Or, you can recognize that you are about to take one giant step closer to the actualization of your dream.

Remind your egoic Inner Critic that whatever happens, you will be safe. If you are booed off the stage, publicly humiliated by an art critic or your screenplay is tossed in the round file you are still you. You still have meaning and purpose. And you get to learn something from that experience. These lessons are gifts for they are what ultimately deliver what you desire – the masterful expression of your full potential. Look around you. Those you admire got to where they are through a path of stretching, learning, growing, and mastering their craft. So can you.

Choose to maintain your personal power. Know that what you fear is also what you are here to do. There is only one way to mitigate your anxiety and that is to do the thing that makes you anxious!

Valery is an Artist Mindset Mentor and Coach who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can overcome the struggles that come packaged with the life of a visual & performing artist. Clients learn how to express their full potential to create more passionately, profoundly, productively and profitably. Empower the Wizard Within to actualize your full creative potential. http://www.InnerWizard.com Get Free Empowerment tips!

The Intuitive Mind: Albert Einstein Quote

Posted on July 22, 2009 by admin

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein

The intuitive mind is the Wizard Within. It is the voice of your intuition and inspiration. The rational mind is that of the Inner Critic – the voice of your self-doubt and fear. The Wizard Within makes choices and takes action based on gut instinct and creative inspiration. The Inner Critic makes choices and takes action based on fear of moving beyond current comfort zones, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of rejection, fear of humiliation, etc.

Wizard Within decisions will always, without exception, result in good outcomes. Inner Critic decisions will always, without exception, result in unwanted outcomes. Universally. Whether the decision is made by a person, a company or even a government. Intuition and Inspiration = good outcome. Fear and doubt = unwanted outcome.

Examine the decisions you’ve made in your life. Whenever you made a choice based on a negative feeling – fear, doubt, lack, worry, stress – things didn’t work out the way you wanted. When you’ve acted on pure intuition and a gut ‘knowingness’ you’ve enjoyed good results!

It’s easy to tell what the choice or the action you are about to take is based on. If it is created through intuition or inspiration you feel good. If it’s a reaction that is based in fear or self-doubt you don’t feel so good. So, if you’re not feeling good about what you’re about to do, stop! Re-examine. Ask yourself what you want to create instead of what you are running away from.

You are operating from pure intuition and inspiration in those moments when you are in the zone. You are fully engaged, have no sense of time, and are enjoying whatever it is you are doing. These are energetic moments of pure joy, bliss and peace. It is the moment when you are fully conscious, firing on all cylinders and creating your art of human expression.

The gift you give to yourself is in the rich delicious life experienced when guided by the intuitive mind rather than the reluctant. It is a life fully experienced rather than simply existed. It is the difference between a life of quiet desperation and the fullest expression of your soul, the song in your heart, the fulfillment of personal passions.

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How to Get A Grip on Your Inner Critic

Posted on July 22, 2009 by admin

Ever want to tell someone to get a grip? Tell them that they have run amok in their minds and are not facing reality? Stop them from completely ‘losing it’ and self-destructing? How often have you told yourself to get a grip only to later serve up more and more justification for your misguided thinking and emotions? Your very own self-sabotage?

How do you achieve a centered calm presence when your life experience is flung in scattered directions, randomly, leaving you with anxiety, fear, depression or utter confusion? Or worse yet, your frozen in action; completely stuck. Trapped in the mire of your own monkey mind.

You get a grip on your Inner Critic by letting go of the grip it has over you.
“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” ~George Bernard Shaw

You create your experience through the expression of the essence of what you think about, whether it is something you want or something you do not want. Your Inner Critic is often the originator of what you think about. If your focus and attention in upon that which you have and do not want, you will create more of what you do not want. If you allow your thoughts to be occupied with worry then you will create an experience that reflects what you fear.

Your Inner Critic serves up these seemingly automatic thoughts of worry, fear and other anxiety to hold you back and keep you safe. He has you in his grip as if you were a child about to run into the street. He holds onto in fear of your safety for if he were to let go you would surely die. And you live, frozen in place or creating more evidence to support the stronghold the Inner Critic has over you.

To release the Inner Critic grip tell him “You’re not the boss of me!” Reclaim your power. In that powerful you stand centered in the truth of who you are and committed to your passion, your gift that you are here to bring forth into the world. You will remember that there is nothing that you desire that you cannot achieve, and there is nothing that you do not want that you cannot release from your experience.

Recognizing the connection between what you think and feel and what you create for your life experience weakens the fearful grip you hold upon yourself. You can release the grip by taking responsibility for generating the thoughts and feelings that will deliver more of the experiences you desire and less of what you do not want to occur in your life.

What is your dream, your deepest desire?

Speak and act in the direction of that desire. Any thoughts, feelings, emotions you have that run contrary to that desire is the work of your Inner Critic. He in then in control of the decisions and choices you make moving forward. It’s easy to tell if your Inner Critic has a grip on you or not. When you are victim to his power, entrenched in his grip, you do not feel good. It is as simple as that. Uncomfortable feelings are clear indicators that your thoughts are not in alignment with your dreams, your desires. The choices you make based on those thoughts will not result in the experience you want to create. Fear based thoughts will lead to self-sabotage. Without exception.

“Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom. Sometimes it’s filled with feet.” – Robert Orben

Whatever you are paying attention to, whether it be remembering the past, observing the present or thinking about the future, you use to plant the seeds for what you will experience in that future. How you show up in your life is what you create. Do you show up in the clenched fist of your Inner Critic or will you present yourself standing firm in your own power, speaking and action in alignment with the fullest expression of your authenticity, your truth?

Release the Inner Critic grip to free yourself to create from your heart instead of your Inner Critic monkey mind. With this freedom comes expanded possibilities and unlimited potential.

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” – Henry David Thoreau

Valery is an Artist Mindset Mentor & Coach who helps creative people get out of their own way to overcome the struggles that come packaged with the life of a visual & performing artist. Clients learn how to express their full potential deliberately & responsibly to create more passionately, profoundly, productively & profitably. Empower the Wizard Within to actualize & express your full creative potential http://www.InnerWizard.com Free tips!

Your Exhaustion is Really Inner Critic FEAR

Posted on July 11, 2009 by admin

458041_lights___ Many people come to me complaining that they’re tired, exhausted, unable to find balance in their life. Some have incredibly busy schedules and others live a life of casual leisure. Yet, both are exhausted. I also know people who have either busy or leisurely schedules who are not tired, they are full of energy and rarely, if ever, tire. What’s the difference?

I’ve discovered that those in the chronically tired camp live ‘should be’ lives. They fear they are not good, smart, talented or whatever enough to live life centered in the truth of who they are, on their terms so they adopt a way of life that meets with who they think they’re supposed to be, what they’re supposed to do and have. One can get very good at living a ‘should be’ life but it is exhausting. I takes a lot of work to live contrary to your natural preferences and talents; against your purpose. It is a life spent swimming upstream – and that’s exhausting!

“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.” Samuel Butler

Those who live authentically, aligned with their purpose, enjoy a seemingly inexhaustible source of energy. Aligned with purpose, energy is always there to do whatever inspires you. You never get tired, and each day is met with a sense of joy. No matter how busy, days unfold effortlessly, a flow with the stream of life.

If you are exhausted, too tired to create you are really stuck in Finding Excuses And Reasons (F.E.A.R.) why you cannot honor and give voice to your authentic self, your purpose and unique abilities that are your birthright. If you are giving power to that monkey minded Inner Critic chatter telling you that you cannot do or express what your heart is calling you to create you deplete your energy source, your Inner Being, Higher Self or what I playfully call the Wizard within. If you think too much and fail to take action, fear makes its home within you. You become exhausted as you work against your natural flow. You stand still in your journey to actualize and express your full potential.

“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.” – Norman Vincent Peale

Go from tired to inspired by giving power to the Inner Being voice within you. This is the voice that knows you by heart, knows your personal passions and greatest desires. Ask what your Inner Being wants to do and create and take one step in that direction. Then take another step. And another. Soon you will be living your life authentically, in alignment with what you are here to be, do and have. You will have turned around to flow easily with the stream instead of paddling exhaustively against it.

“I’m so tired, but I can’t sleep…standing on the edge of something much too deep…funny how I feel so much but cannot say a word…we are screaming inside, oh, but we can’t be heard…so afraid to love you, more afraid to lose…clinging to a past” – Sarah McLachlan

Copyright © 2009 Valery Satterwhite; Valery is an Artist Mindset Mentor & Coach who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can overcome the struggles in the life of a visual & performing artist. Clients learn how to express their full potential to create more passionately, profoundly, productively and profitably. Empower the Wizard Within http://www.InnerWizard.com . Get Free “Empower the Wizard Within tips”! Twitter: InnerWizard

You Have a Knowingness: Empowered Unrealized Knowledge

Posted on July 10, 2009 by admin

1197205_spanish_marguerite Have you ever looked at your pet and knew exactly what he wanted to “say” to you? Have you ever noticed someone’s body language that communicated something contrary to what they were saying? Have you ever had a gut feeling that something you were about to do wouldn’t result in a good outcome? Have you ever had a hunch that turned out to be right?

If your answer is yes then you are familiar with examples of your innate knowingness. You are able to sense the truth without explanation. When this knowledge presents itself “out of the blue” it feels a little a magical. This empowered unrealized knowledge is delivered to you through your Inner Wizard, the voice of your intuition and inspiration.

I once showed up at the airport three hours early to pick up my sister who was returning home from a business trip. I don’t know why I showed up early. All I know is that I felt a sudden strong urge to get in the car and head to the airport long before her scheduled arrival. The urge was undeniable so I got in the car and headed for the airport. I got there just in time to see her come out of baggage claim and park herself on the bench. As she was pulling her cell phone out of her purse to call me, I drove up to the curb in front of her and opened the door. We both just looked at each other for a stunned moment and then laughed.

I can’t explain it. I had no way of knowing that my sister caught an earlier flight at the last minute. I just had a knowingness that I had to get to the airport early.

Someone once asked rocker Tom Petty how he wrote hit song after hit song after hit song. He paused for what seemed like an eternity and responded that he really didn’t know how. Didn’t want to know how as the knowing might ‘jinx it’. He just sits down and the music spills through him. Not out of him, through him.

These are just a few examples of this powerful magical internal resource at work.

Your Inner Wizard operates beyond time and space and is sometimes called your higher self, your soul or your spirit. It is the playful child within you that knows your truth, your passions and your desires. When problems surface your intuition provides quick and efficient answers to your problems letting you know what the best course of action to take to overcome the issue at hand.

A life lead by this Inner Wizard, this empowered knowingness, gives you boundless energy and joy.

However, your Inner Wizard is often lost in the “noise” of other thoughts and physical feelings voiced by another part of you, your Inner Critic. Your Inner Critic serves up self-doubt and fear to hold you back, limit you to keep you safe from what it fears. Your Inner Critic fears the unknown so it doesn’t like to venture beyond right where it is – in its comfort zone, even if you don’t like being there. You’ve heard this voice. It is the voice that says you can’t or aren’t (good, rich, smart, worthy, etc.) enough to be, do or have what you want in life.

There’s an easy way to tell which part of you is empowered. If it’s your Inner Wizard then you feel good, if not great! If it’s your Inner Critic, then you don’t feel so good. You lack energy. You’re swimming upstream instead of with the flow of life.

The only thing stopping you from being, doing and having what you want in life is – you! It is that part of you, the Inner Critic, that stops you through self-doubt and fear. The good news is you can easily learn how to recognize the difference between your Inner Wizard and your Inner Critic. You can learn how to tame your Inner Critic and empower your Inner Wizard. It takes a willingness to change and a commitment to the work. And the work can be a joy ride!

People believe things can be serious, important or useful or they can be fun, enjoyable or pleasing. But they can’t be both. This belief is just that – a belief, not a truth. The journey of self-awareness and transformation to empower your Inner Wizard is serious, important and very definitely useful AND a heck of a lot of fun. The result of the work is a rich delicious life – and that’s certainly an enjoyable and pleasing experience!

Tap into the creative and magical power of your Inner Wizard today and turn your dreams into reality.

Copyright © 2009 Valery Satterwhite; Valery is the Founder of the International Association for Inner Wizards. Learn how to tame your Inner Critic (self-doubt and fear), empower your Inner Wizard (intuition and inspiration) to turn your dreams into reality. Your Inner Wizard is your best Coach, Guru and Teacher. Everything you need to be, do and have what you want in life is already within you. Tap into this power and live a rich delicious life. More at http://www.InnerWizard.com

The Key to Financial Freedom for Artists, Actors, Writers & Musicians

Posted on June 15, 2009 by admin

1196201_peas1 Well-meaning, yet woefully misguided, advice from parents, teachers and other loved ones such as “You’ll never make a living as an artist” has become the foundational belief and mantra of the artist’s Inner Critic. What’s worse is that this also woefully misguided Inner Critic loves to be right and will serve up proof and evidence of this belief and beat you up with it day in and day out to make sure that you do, or not do, what it takes to keep this foundational belief in place. Acting upon the Inner Critic mantra of “You’ll never make a living as an artist.” your thoughts and actions create the outcome of the starving artist. And the Inner Critic is pleased. This supreme inner entity, this ‘knower of all’, is doing its job of keeping you safe and small and right!

Except for one thing…….he’s WRONG!

Think about it. Look around you. Instead of focusing upon your lack of desired financial resources look to all the actors, artists, writers and musicians who are making boat loads of money! Julian Schnabel, Bono, Annie Leibowitz, Steven Spielburg, Rita Ackerman, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Stephen King, Dave Barry, Mick Jagger, Dave Matthews – the list of wildly successful and wealthy artists of every kind can easily go on and on and on.

What’s the difference between the abundantly rich artist and the starving artist? One thing and one thing only: Self-Mastery.

Self-Mastery as the key to financial freedom is not some airy fairy metaphysical woo-woo concept. From the ancient Greeks to modern day philosophers to modern day celebrity icons, all have recognized that the key to whatever you want in life, including wealth, comes from within. How you show up in your life, what the foundational beliefs that motivate you are based upon, deliver the outcomes you experience.

From Socrates:

- “Know thyself.”

- “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

- “Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.”

From others throughout the centuries:

- “If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.” – Francis Bacon, British Philosopher

- “All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas — not money.” – Robert Collier, American Writer/Publisher

- “I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.”- Andrew Young, Civil Rights Activist

- “Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” – Ayn Rand, Russian Writer, Philosopher

- “All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.” – Napoleon Hill

And:

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau

Where you hold back your fullest expression of your potential as an artist of any kind is where you struggle. Where you doubt your self, your dreams, your worthiness is where you create your poverty. Where you resist your purpose in life, the special gifts that are your birthright, is where you suffer your anxiety.

You are as free, financially and otherwise, as the extent of your ability to acknowledge, honor and master your authenticity and take full responsibility for all of your experiences, good and bad, rich or poor. Those who do not govern themselves are condemned to find other masters to govern over them, including their own Inner Critic.

“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.” – Madonna

Copyright © 2009 Valery Satterwhite Valery is an Artist Mindset Mentor who helps creative people get out of their own way so that they can overcome the struggles that often come packaged with the life of a visual & performing artist. Clients learn how to express their full potential deliberately & responsibly to create more passionately, profoundly, productively and profitably. Empower the Wizard Within to actualize full creative potential. http://www.InnerWizard.com Free tips!

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