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The Creative Colleague Award

The Creative Colleague Award

The Creative Colleague Award

Happy Monday,
Today, Sunshine Factor delivers the last of its four awards. We appreciate today the creativity on other blogs. These writers  make me smile and encourage me to express myself in my own unique way.

Please note, Sunshine Factor has had a great number of new followers lately, and I am sure that as I get to know you better, and read you longer, your creativity will be inspiring to me as well.  🙂

[cue drum roll please]

Award recipients:

http://readtomlucas.com ( Tom’s first book was unveiled on my wedding day, 12/12/12, and I enjoy all the different avenues Tom’s thoughts take his readers on.  His surprises are delightful and his genius profound.)

http://marylouiseeklund.wordpress.com  (Mary Louise can turn an everyday happening into a marvelous story, one that captures the imagination and leaves the reader asking for more.)

http://theultimatebetty.wordpress.com (Its dual authors come up with the best ideas for blog posts!  They are interesting and informative and provide a fun reading experience.  They now touch on items from a guy’s perspective too!)

Thank you all, may creativity rest on all of us.   🙂

 

Debb

 

 

 

 

 


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Creative – Me? Yes!

Creativity is  everywhere you look.

The obvious kind includes the visual artist who can tell stories underneath the paint strokes and clay figures and whatever other material he uses.

Or the writer who can bring up emotions in the reader and has a talent for putting together words in various engaging ways.

But are some of you out there thinking you have no real special talents and that you’re not creative?

I beg to differ.  🙂

“To create” is the main part of the name Creator.  Our Creator has made people (with no two sets of fingerprints that are alike!) and animals, fish and birds of all types.  There are so many varieties of each, just like there are many, many human personalities in existence.

I know of some people who have really taken off with the “green” craze and know hundreds of ways to recycle and repurpose things and save the environment.  They are creative in their own right.

My friend Patti (who had her own photography business) can decorate a kitchen or bathroom counter by assembling like items for the season or holiday – in unique ways.   It’s always a joy to visit her at her house.  Without meaning to, Patti has helped me to live outside the box a little in how I decorate or take care of my home – I’m loosening up a little and still enjoy housekeeping.   The interior of my home and Patti’s changes with the seasons – a nice little reminder of life!  🙂

So – if you were made by the Creator, you inherited a “creative gene” inside you.  There are some things you are able to do that other people just can’t.  Hence, you are creative.  It may not be very recognizable, such as the visual and written arts, but it’s there.  Celebrate it!  Be thankful that you are one of a kind and there is no one else quite like you.


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When All Else Fails – Laugh

To help me cope with a situation or person that was driving me nuts, I used to engage a certain strategy.  In place of going to pieces or getting outwardly angry, I would think of something funny that could happen in that situation or conversation.  Of course, this was kept in my head until the danger had passed.   I also had to practice being an actress.  I couldn’t laugh out loud if the real-life situation didn’t call for it.

You may be wanting an example right about now.  Okay, I will give you a hypothetical situation – because I can’t remember an example from me – it’s been so long since I’ve had to use this tactic.  And remember, what would be funny to me may not be funny to you.  The gist of this whole exercise is to turn on your own creativity, and whatever works for you will be just fine.

*If I were bored at the opera house, I would imagine a housefly flying into the mouth of the diva just as she is holding a very long note.   *In a stressful office situation, the countless perfectly-organized piles of paper would fall into one heap as a little monster appeared from nowhere and turned a fan onto the whole project.   *Stress at work?  I’d find the nearest long and wide hallway and in real life perform a series of perfectly-executed cartwheels.

Tuning out from the situation at hand to think of your favorite song or color or travel location might work, too.  Laughter, however, is the best remedy, since it is the endorphins released that are very good for the soul, mind and body.

For my readers that know me:  just think of good ol’ Debb, and that should be funny enough!  🙂

Have a good day!