05-31-10

OK. Have you ever submitted for a grant for your creativity. That is my challenge today. Check it out. There is money out there for just this cause. People that are dedicated to creating. I want you and me to figure this out. If you find a place to submit for a grant tell me and I will tell you. Because right now I have one and I am submitting for it. Here it is: Arts Writers Grant Program. Let's have fun with this....Go for it....l i n d a

05-30-10

This is about being an ancestor of your future. By what you are doing and thinking now is creating your future. I found this to be quite an eye opener. And a mind wake up call.
The challenge is for you to ask yourself what you are creating for your future. Look at you as an ancestor to your future. What a neat concept. I am keeping track of my crazy thinking. Cuz I am changing it to abundance, health and well being. Be an ancestor of our future with me.....l i n d a

05-29-10

Guess what I did? I downloaded a video of me performing for Creative Kidz and sent it to Oprah for her new television station. What fun is that? It shows I have guts. I may not have done it right but I did it.
My challenge for you today is to look at what you do, do you put it out there and take a chance? I put myself out there for people to take a look and see what they have to say. Let us see what they say>

Linda Burden-Williams Creative Kidz high resolution

05-28-10

I have nothing to give right now. I hit a wall of no inspiration to give to you.
I would love to create something but am tired. Ate too much. And need some exercise I think.
The challenge to you right now is to ask yourself, what happens when you hit a wall. Do you listen to music, dance, go to bed? I would like to go to bed but I have company coming so that won't happen. I will get back to you if I can find my way out of this funk.

05-27-10

There's a holiday coming up and I have to work all of it. How do I feel about that? Well I wish I at least had one day to spend with my husband. I will make the best of it though. I will be making money and I have bills to pay. I will contact people about my creations and I will sell my creations. I am excited now. I just talked myself out of feeling down.
My challenge for you today is to take a look at this holiday and see what it means to you? Memorial Day. I am going to explore my feelings about everyone that is gone and all my friends that are alive and want to wish them a great holiday. Memories have a lot to do with our creativity. Our past, our now and the vision of our future. How can we create if we don't have memories and the feelings that go along with them. Take a look at your emotions and how your memories can create songs, pictures, books, great jewelry and thing you may want to create.

05-26-10

Do you have those days where you just can't get motivated. I am having one of those today. I feel a little antsy and can't focus on anything. The weather is like that also. I was to shoot a scene in my friends movie but the weather kept us from doing that. So I had free time. I turned on the TV. Now that is a mistake for me because I get caught up on HGTV. I love that channel maybe a little too much. I have grieved over my LA experience, my disappointments, my unmet expectations and feel like I am moving on. I feel I have turned a corner, or made a connection or something of the sort. Even though today I am not feeling the motivation that I want. I wanted more days off this week and when I got one I am just wasting it on doing nothing. I have things to clean up and am not doing that either. Well, I just took a break from this blog and anything I saw that I wanted to do I DID. So I got at least 3 things I had walked by 10 times or more. See this blog helps me talk myself out of being what I don't want to be. Lazy and or unmotivated can be adjusted by journeling or talking about the lack of energy.
That sounds like a challenge to me. Do you use your friends to inspire you? Do you journal? Do you blog? Having something that you really do everyday can motivate you to get unstuck. I am unstuck. Yeah!! Thanks to all of you.

05-25-10

Today is a great day to Master Mind. Who do you Master Mind with? Is it time to move away from some relationships that aren't supporting you in the best way possible? Sometimes it is better to keep your new visions to yourself so that others can't say something negative about them and you quit before you even get started. I am holding my friends in unconditional love and respect. Even though I may n0t ever call them again. I am finding how friendship works these days. We are so busy keeping up with our homes, our jobs, our relationships in our homes that we don't really make time for friends. And I was feeling left out of many of my friends lives. I would call them and I wouldn't get a call back. They always sounded excited to hear from me but I was the aggressor. If that is the word. I don't want to do that any more.
If you get an email from a friend and dread opening it up there must be some issue that you haven't dealt with with that person.
Going back to Master Minding. That is collaborating with others about your future and what you want in your life. Who would be the best people to talk to that would understand and support you in what you want to do, be and get in your life?
My challenge to you today is to take a look at all of your friends and family and think about how it feels to tell them your new creative ideas. Do they say, Oh here you go again, you never finish what you start. Or are they open and excited. Just take a look at how you think they react. Could it be that you are making up some of their reaction in your head. Sometimes we think we know what the other people are thinking. But can we really know what is on their minds? Can you Master Mind with yourself? That is a good way to get in touch with what is going on inside you. Try that too. Let us have a very productive and creative day. Take care.

05-24-10

I have a day off. I am so excited. I really had to take a look at all the days this last few weeks and see what I did. I had something to do for others or was at work or traveling etc. No day at home to do laundry, to pickup things you left out. I made a list of things that I wanted to do. So this goes along with my blog yesterday. It is filling the well-spring. I felt so grateful not having to run off today. I got to go for a run. Haven't ran that far in years. I have got to start taking my body seriously. I want to have a strong body. I want to have a strong heart. My body is where my creativity comes through. It needs to be a strong vibrational temple to be a conduit for the great gifts that are given us.
My challenge to you today is to take a look at your body, your health and is there room for improvement? Maybe it is the time of the year you can get out and start walking, running or biking. This will promote your blood flow and weight loss and I remember when I ran for miles I would get the runner high and great things will come to the inspired mind that has the runners chemicals running through it. How much can we create if we aren't healthy or in touch with the vibration of the universe. This is a good time to reconnect. Let's do it.

05-23-10

OK. I just changed the font size because I wanted to be able to see it better. Hope you can too. I want to talk about filling up the well of your creativity. Did you in other countries make you take a month off of work. What a great idea so that you can miss your work. So you can fill up and get going again.
My challenge to you is to ask yourself how do you refill? How do you give only what is your authentic self? If you give what others want then you get really really tired. Write down what things you could do that would feel like you are filling up with good stuff so you can be that and give that.

05-22-10

I am excited to have some clarity on how my life is working or not working. I know that lots of time we have mirror of our good, or our bad. Right in our face. What you create comes right back. I was looking at why I don't pursue my creativity, why I don't give the gifts to everyone that were given me. I have become very passive and not passionate. I have questions why things aren't just given to me. I don't even put it out there. There has to be action taken. This and the ripple effect of how I treat others or how I hide myself with others. How can there be a true relationship if I am not being authentic or my true self.
I saw a ripple effect in what I am creating in the world, thinking it only effects me but everything I do effects many many people. Your family, your co workers, even your own creativity is effected by your thinking and your doing. Hiding or playing small never helped anyone. Thinking people don't like you because they don't call doesn't help you either. Be the friend that you want people to be friends with you, not the other way around.
My challenge to you is figure out what your ripple effect is causing. I think it is definitely worth taking a look at and putting some thought into it. Just as you drop or throw a rock into the water it ripples out. It is energy it is the way of the universe. Check i t out.

05-21-10

Welcome to this Friday. This is Movie Friday, meaning I am going to be in a movie today. I will be in a student film and I think it is the perfect place for me to be today. I have this fear of bigger movies so this is the perfect place for me to be.
My Project last night was so awesome. Everyone's project was so so so so great. We are such creative creatures. I just loved it. I am going to look at everyone today knowing how creative they are.
My challenge to you today is to take a look at everyone as a creative creature. Even the person begging on the street, the lady at the grocery store, everyone. Even your family members that you see all the time, see them in a different light today. Now go out and create.

05-20-10

I have to give a project tonight for a class I am taking. It is on how could I impact myself, my community and the world. I didn't know what to do for the project. Then I thought of my blog, a safe place to create. That is what my focus is these days. So nothing seemed more important to me to share with myself, you and all of the world. I think we don't play enough or create enough to make us feel good. If it means planting a garden, or organizing your closet the way you use it the most. These are still creative processes.
My challenge to you is to see what you contribute to yourself, to your community or to the world? If you could do anything what would you do? What do you see in the world that you would like to change or contribute too? How may I serve you? Have a good one and wish me luck on my final project. Oh, I will do some songs from Creative Kidz and I will give out Art to Heart Cards. I will show my Alignment Beads. All great creative things.
I want to make it a safe place for everyone to create.....Thanks for listening.

05-19-10

Today I am having to do some traveling and really want to use that time to look at what I want to do and what doesn't serve me anymore. Service to others. Giving what I want to get? This is something I need to look at. I will listen to a CD that a friend gave me and enjoy the time. I don't want to leave my friend, I have been given such gifts from these few days with many female friends.
My challenge to you is to look at what serves you in your life and what doesn't serve you. I will make a list of this and I encourage you to do the same. Listen to what is given you and see where that takes you. My words for the day was ACCEPTANCE, PURPOSE, HUMILITY AND INSPIRATION. This is just what I needed today and you too can pick 4 words for the day out of my 60 Art to Heart Insight Cards.

05-18-10

I need to journal. I need to let go. I have been around a lot of energy lately, whether it be at work, on vacation, in class, at a concert, at others homes. I think I am on overload.
I feel like I need to journal for a year or so. What would I journal about? About my mind and how crazy it gets sometimes. About judgmental ways and how I don't express myself clearly, or others don't understand what I am saying. Everyone is so nice, and things are going well in the long term but I feel like I haven't taken any time to actually nurture myself. Most people never do that. What I would ask myself most: What do you need Linda? I mean really what do you need right now to allow you to see the beauty around you and how grateful you can be for these opportunities. I would say, I need to stop, quiet my crazy mind, look around me, breathe and say Thank you, Thank you, Thank you...... My 4 words for the day from my Art to Heart Insight Cards, were HONESTY, GRATITUDE, ADVENTURE AND RELEASE. I need them all very badly. Honesty with myself on how I interact with people and my crazy mind talk still. Gratitude for this amazing chance to reconnect and stay connected with people. The Adventure to get away from work and see everyone and go to new places. Release I really needed and this is helping me release. I still want to please people and that isn't anything that I really need to do anymore. Serving people would be a much better thing for me to be able to do.
My challenge to you is to ask yourself, what do you really need today? Is there one thing that you could do to make you feel better, more grounded, more creative. Maybe you need to book yourself a massage or a little get away or something. Or maybe a simple blog or journel. We have to learn to take care of ourselves so we can take care of others. Thank you.

05-17-10

Remembering an old creative life can be difficult or exhilarating and or more, I am with the girl rockers I played with over 20 years ago. And we have lots of memories. Some good and some bad. Couldn't get to sleep, so naps today will be in my plans.
My challenge to you is to see if you can remember an old creative life of yours and maybe even contact someone that may have been involved in that. We looked up lots of people on line last night and found some pretty amazing things out about people. Good stuff.
Have a great adventure today.

05-16-10

Good Morning. Yes I am blogging before noon as I will be busy the rest of the day and don't plan on missing a day.
Take a look at how you can keep the day fresh. This is the challenge of the day. I will be needing to keep the day fresh. As I am with friends and we move from one event to another I want to enjoy it all and at the same time keep my own energy. So I think keeping it fresh would be a good way to do that. Love...me

05-15-10

This is a great day for being creative and living the creativity and what else? Having things come full circle as they say.
My rock n roll girlfriends are coming to spend 3 days together. They are actually at a Eugene Music Store. I don't know any of them. And I live in Eugene. I sing, write and play music but I don't even know where they may be.
I am truly excited to see these dear friends from my past. I let the fear go. As I went to a singing from the soul workshop today. This gentlemen really captures the vibrations of being a voice for whatever is in your soul. He has been teaching for 30 years in LA and all over. We are all damaged goods.
My challenge to you is to look at yourself and see where you think you are broken or you are damaged goods. This can help or constrict your creativity. I thought my puking and singing was over until today. And I almost felt like puking. Fear came up also. I cried. And I found out that I still have singing issues in my tissues. See if you still have issues in your tissues. Have a great one.....

05-14-10

How excited am I? Well, really I am a little tired but at the same time I have great things coming up for me. I have a singing workshop tomorrow and I am excited about that. Then my rock n roll girls are having a 3 day get together. Then I get to stay with a friend after that. Meaning I have a few days away from work. Also I have a short film on Friday that I will be acting in. Another class end project is coming up and I am thinking of taking all of my creating to present the project. It is about how do you effect the community and or changing the world.
So my challenge to you is how does your creativeness change the world. Effect the world, or your community? This is a great way to say, How can I serve? That is how our talents can really change the world. This is the creativity I am talking about.

05-13-10

What a beautiful day. And I stayed in bed way to long, but I will fill the rest of the day in the most beautiful day. Getting ready for a little get together with some girls I played rock n roll over 20 years ago. They will be staying at my house. I am so excited, at the same time I have some work to get done. I will do that around my Artist Date, my class and work. I can do it all. Because I am choosing to do it all.
My challenge for you today is to walk through your house and or office, studio. Whatever you choose and write down all the creating that you did. It could be the curtains, the books you chose to put on the shelf. It can be the paintings, the still life art you have put together that shows a part of you. It is the way you put the furniture and how your dishes are arranged in the cupboard. I think we take if for granted that we create our lives around us and through us. All of us are original and we do things our way. Take note you little creator you. You Big Creator you. Have a Beautiful Creative Day.

05-12-10

This is a day that I will write 2 blogs as yesterday got past me without a blog. I got up early to take husband to the airport then I had to get ready for work and went to a concert and was way to tired to write last night. So at first I was mad at myself but simply decided to write two on this beautiful day. And get an Artist date in also. Have I talked about Artist Dates. This is a time when you fill up with other peoples art. You can go to a book store. An antique store, A pond, A mall. Art gallery,museum. What ever. You just look around and soak in what you see. Fill yourself up.
My challenge is to plan an Artist Date with yourself. This is something you do alone. You can do one with a friend but I want you to go alone and see how that feels to you. You can be like a child in a candy shop. Life is good, life is filled with beauty and waiting for you to fill the world with unlimited creativity. Let's go.

05-11-10

Today I followed a creative idea that I had years ago. I had designed a dress that could be made into many outfits. I drew this dress and wanted to make it. When I was looking through my sketch pad I found the dress. So I took action. I had many thoughts about my process. I was scared to show a seamstress. Maybe it is a stupid idea. I don't have the whole idea together. I don't know if it is good for this time, like maybe it is out of style.
Then I thought why don't I let go of any kind of outcome. Just go talk with a friend. So that is what I did.
We bought a pattern that we can change to my style. We got a material that I could wear to work and many places. So Is still hear the voice, Maybe it is the wrong material. What if it turns out badly. So what? At least I headed in a direction that I had always wanted to do.
My challenge to you is to ask yourself if you put attachments onto your creations. What does that voice keep saying, Mine has gotten so much better but I really listened to it and it was still blabbing. I am still detaching as we speak. I will tell you how this dress turns out. Maybe even have pictures. Thanks

05-10-10

Here we go again. It is Monday, a new week. What is new in my life? What is new in your life? Having to get ready for the day job. Do you ever worry about getting to tired? I do. I don't know why. I am challenging you today to listen and see what silly things you worry about. Like how much you eat. What you eat. Will you get everything done you need to. Just take a look. Do you see doom and gloom, or complain all day. I am feeling very great after the lovely day with my family. And I want to have good days the rest of the week. I just have to keep reminding myself. How about you?

05-09-10

Happy Mothers day to everyone. As in church the discussion was about how everyone is a mother of ideas. Invention and the process of nurturing a project along. We all have male and female energies. Mother Earth, Mother of invention.
My challenge to you today is to see how you are nurturing to yourself and to your ideas. Do you listen and trust your ways or do you talk bad to yourself and or others. Discouraging your baby ideas instead of nurturing them along as special as they are. Enjoy!!!

05-08-10

Let us look at sleep and rest. I know some people that would never think of taking a nap. I know others that fall asleep and deny that they take a nap and then there are people like me and my son. We love to nap. I have Powered Napped for about 20 years. So my body automatically slows down around 1:00 pm and I can fall asleep for as little as 10 minutes and I feel connected and ready to go. But if I don't get that needed shut down sometimes I have to go to bed very very early to catch up and be grounded and in the moment.
My challenge to you is to take a look at your sleeping habits, your napping habits and or your lack of. The great saying someone brought to mind was, if we only used the habits they taught us in kindergarten. Be nice to everyone. Hang up your coat, take a nap, etc.
It is brilliant. How do you deny yourself of regrouping time? How do you take care of your precious self? I feel guilty sometimes because of meditating late, sleeping later that others, taking a nap. You know what? It is my life and I and the cosmic magic know best. I need to trust what I need to do to make it through. Happy Mothers Day tomorrow.

05-07-10

OK Yeah!!! What is going on in your life? OK, my challenge is going to be simple today because I am tired and I am trying to simplify my life.
So that is my challenge, how could you simplify your life and make it work. Maybe even make it work with ease and love. Let it go....let it love..I love it...yeah yeah yeah..

05-06-10

Many times we do investigations on what stops us or what we suffer from. We might even blame others for our lack of skills or confidence in ourselves. I want to turn this around and challenge you and myself to see what really makes me happy. Because then we can focus on that at certain times when we may be loosing our grip to being positive. It could be a time in your life, it can be a pet, it can be a picture of someone you love. A favorite outfit, shirt or pair of boots. Sometimes it doesn't take much to put a smile on our face. Focus on this today and for even longer. Let's bring more happiness to lives and the lives of others.
Spread the Joy!!

05-05-10

When it all comes together. Well I have had quite a few creations that seem to be on hold. But today 4 or 5 different things came to me and I got them done. I made cards for my Alignment Beads. (And I named them). I got holders for my Art to Heart Insight Cards.
I named them also. I got containers for my beads. I got T-Shirts to decorate. Wow.
I didn't have to worry about it happening it just took time to germinate. It is like a seed and then it grows at it's own time.
My challenge to you is plant the seeds or take a look at the seeds you planted and how did the outcome look like. I get sad when I don't get to create or I don't have any great ideas, then all of a sudden breakthrough. Take a look how this looks in your life. And plant a few seeds today. I am going to plant more seeds.

05-04-10

Angels? Are there such a thing? Are we all angels serving each other? I don't know why I am asking this. Well, I guess I do know why, a couple people have been mentioning Angels to me and say I have some that are watching over me. I don't know. Let's focus on creation again. A safe place to create. I read this morning that no one can get in your mind and create thoughts for you unless you let them. So your thoughts are your creations alone. Connected or aligned with the bigger picture. Life itself. A gratitude list. That is what I need to do today. I love that I have my legs, and they are working, my fingers are typing these words on a computer that was lovingly given to me by my husband. I have a loving husband and an awesome son, who I will get to see this evening. What more could I ask for?
The challenge for today is for you to write a gratitude list. Like food, sun, clothes the list can go on all day because we have much to be grateful for. Thank you.

05-03-10

One of my creations, my 60 cards, each with original art. I gave a copy to my friend and she liked them so much she wants to buy 2 sets of cards. These are Heart Insight cards. You choose 4 a day and see how the insights actually deal with your life. Things that you may want to focus on for the day. I have used these cards for years.
My challenge to you is to take a look at something you may be able to market? What a concept. I am finding that you really need to take a look at the actual people you are marketing the item too. Let's create more, do more and make more.

05-02-10

This is such an awesome day. And why would I say such a thing? Well, because everyday is an awesome day if you are dieing and we all are. Some faster than others. Why am I talking about this. I mean really this is not what I wanted to talk about. What I want to construct is a conversation about creating recently. Last night I created an unusual creation with the regular canvas and a piece of Plexiglas. This was cause for some excitement in my mind. It gives my painting the 3D dimensions. Now I have to figure out how to connect the two mediums. That is somehow a main distraction of mine. I have a vision and then I don't know how to make that happen.
So this becomes a challenge to you, my dedicated readers. How do you move through your creative distractions? How do you create freely and not worry about the delivery? Easily said by me+HA HA
this is finished by computer only>>love me

05-01-10

I have to challenge you fast because I am loosing my focus. I am creating and it is awesome, but I am tired am ready to go to bed.
My challenge to you is to take a look at your photos, take a look at your good times, etc. These are the things I am creating from. I am taking a basic canvas and then putting a painting over it on plastic. These are good creative times, use them.