2. Two Core Assumptions
Creative work is a reflection of the image of God.
Creative work is cultivated by rhythms and practices.
3. Two Core Assumptions
"The mind is not a vessel to be
Creative work is a reflection ofbe kindled."
filled, but a fire to the image of God.
--Plutarch
Creative work is cultivated by rhythms and practices.
9. Create
Artifacts
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10. Create
Artifacts
“We each have to say it, to say it in our
own way. Not of our own will, but as it
comes out through us. Good or bad,
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great or little: that isn’t what human
creation is about. It is that we have to
try; to put it down in pigment, or words,
or musical notations, or we die.”
- Madeleine L’Engle
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Artifacts
"Be who you are and say what you feel
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because those who mind don’t matter
and those who matter don’t mind."
- Dr. Seuss
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13. Create
"You are going to Artifacts to give and give
have
and give and give, or there’s no reason
for you to be writing. You have to give
from the deepest part of yourself, and
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and the giving is going to have to be its
own reward. There is no cosmic
importance to your getting something
published, but there is in learning to be
Engage a giver." Capture
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--Anne Lamott
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14. Create
Artifacts
“It is his joy to share with us the pleasure
of creating, whether it be making
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money, food, a poem, or a birdhouse. It
is exhilarating to use the gifts God has
given us to bless another person.”
--Dan Allender
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Who am I?\nfeel free to throw out comments on Twitter -- will engage them in a little bit\n
Why are you here?\n--a mess? (not aware of Merlin Mann)\n--or a nerd? (aware of Merlin Mann)\n\nCore Assumptions\n
The Loop\nbottom weighted\n\nEngagement vs consumption\n
The Loop\nbottom weighted\n\nEngagement vs consumption\n
Tasks vs ideas\n
in any medium\n
movement is more important than stages\n\nAttend -> paying attention, being present\n\njournal, memoir, morning pages\n\naware of both emotions and notions\n\nbut, it is far too easy to navel gaze, to rock back and forth at the bottom\n
Drafting is the work that rolls away from the weighted bottom\n\nResistance\n\nFlow State - Now Habit, Neil Fiore\n\nDillard quote\n\nSeuss quote\n
Drafting is the work that rolls away from the weighted bottom\n\nResistance\n\nFlow State - Now Habit, Neil Fiore\n\nDillard quote\n\nSeuss quote\n
Drafting is the work that rolls away from the weighted bottom\n\nResistance\n\nFlow State - Now Habit, Neil Fiore\n\nDillard quote\n\nSeuss quote\n
loop completes as you ship/publish so that others may engage\n\nto create is an act of love\n\nLamott quote\n\nAllender quote\n
loop completes as you ship/publish so that others may engage\n\nto create is an act of love\n\nLamott quote\n\nAllender quote\n
loop completes as you ship/publish so that others may engage\n\nto create is an act of love\n\nLamott quote\n\nAllender quote\n
that offers a framework and helps with some rhythms\n\nQ&A\n\nsome tools / workflows\n