Super Charge Your Creativity with these 5 Ideas & one Irish Bonus 🍀

[@katechadbournebard]

YOU'RE INVITED! This Sunday, 29 September 2024, 4-5 pm EST I'm hosting a FREE gathering to celebrate Michaelmas, a holiday associated with the Cailleach, or hag, in Irish tradition. We'll be playing with themes of light and dark, youth and age, wisdom and folly as we create and celebrate this potent time. I'd love to have you with us! Here's a link to sign up: eepurl.com/cb8BLn (you'll be joining my newsletter gang, but there's no obligation to stay on it beyond Sunday). If you decide to come, please wear a SILLY HAT!

[@williambrooking333]

So I followed the link and signed up to the newsletter but I don't see the zoom info?

[@FrancinaOpperman]

I am 81 years old and started painting at 55 but my husband who was the encouragement that you say we need, died of COVID 3 years ago. Thank you for your posts, I'll value my present work more.

[@katechadbournebard]

I’m so sorry for your loss: that's very hard. I salute your creativity and am glad you are going to value your work more. Thank you for sharing, Artist, and very happy you are here with us.

[@Septentria]

❤

[@FrancoiseDucroz]

"Nothing is wasted" feels poignant to me. I have been so quick to dismiss my efforts when they haven't landed well or landed at all. NO MORE!! Thank you, Kate 💚💚💚

[@katechadbournebard]

Francoise, what you share is SO important. All your efforts matter, no matter how they are received. And haven't we all had that experience of a piece of art that "didn't land" in one place - and then was lauded and adored in another? That tells me that honoring our effort is grounding, clear-eyed, and deeply helpful to the creators we are. I take off my hat to you, my friend!

[@carolcollins3108]

Oh my, this is so Good.

[@katechadbournebard]

Carol, you've made my day. Thank you!

[@louisapdjones]

Kate, thank you for your channel. Your words are nurturing and warm. Everyone needs your wisdom. 😊

[@katechadbournebard]

Your kind words are a gift to me - thank you for sharing them!

[@secretshaman189]

What a lovely message! I've only watched a couple of your videos and love your channel already!

[@katechadbournebard]

Grateful for your kind words!

[@jarrodwb8422]

The warmth and wisdom you share is encouragement in itself. Thank you for the glow you grant this world! ✨

[@katechadbournebard]

You are so kind and your words are tea and a scone to me! Thank you!

[@annetcell-ly4571]

Wise words. Find your tribe.

[@katechadbournebard]

Well said!

[@eithnecourtney4854]

So helpful, so encouraging and so inspiring. Thank you . ❤🇮🇪🙏❤️

[@katechadbournebard]

Thank you so much for your kindness and encouragement!

[@carolcollins3108]

Put away Fear. Welcome Courage . This is helping me dare to do things. I was often paralysed by fear. I would do nothing for fear of failure. Till I decided, enough. Just try and see what happens. I'm surprised at how much my life has changed. It makes me very happy and inspired to keep on. Thank you.

[@katechadbournebard]

You've got it, Carol: YES! Those are wise words and thoughts you share with us here, and they help all of us. Thank you and every blessing to you, my creative friend!

[@carolcollins3108]

@@katechadbournebard Thank you Kate. I'm so Blest , I found your channel. I resonate with you and your expressions of life experience. All the way from South Africa.

[@carolcollins3108]

@@katechadbournebard it took me too long to get it. But , I'm so very grateful. I've got it, and may we keep growing.

[@maureenpowers3086]

Just recently found you and am in love with your calm positivity and wonderful Irish logic! You speak to my soul; you water my garden! Thank you 1,000x!

[@katechadbournebard]

What a lovely thing to say! I’m so glad these videos are speaking to you! ❤

[@francescapereira4515]

Thank you Kate,.... my friend Shahin and I write articles (on women and home themes) and books for children.... Sometimes as a team and sometimes separately. Thank you for being so honest and insightful in your points on ways to be more creative

[@katechadbournebard]

Thank you for sharing your beautiful work with us. Sounds like you and Shahin are inspiring many with your creativity. Bravo! ❤️

[@theherbalsanctuary811]

oh Kate, I love, how can I make this fun. I know! get out of my own way. I did a reading once with an acquaintance who did readings with sea shells. she showed a sheet with shells and you pick the three that stand out to you. She looked at mine and immediately said. you make things much harder than you need to. Somewhere you got the message that if i it isn't really hard to do or achieve then it isn't worthy. That what you enjoyed or had fun with was not worthy to work towards. so you have spent your life working at things that you are not naturally good at to prove that you are worthy. at 60 I am still trying to get out of my own way. lol. I think the arts teach us to bend and sway with our flawed self. I think that is what is missing with our world right now, fun, joy, humor, flow. We need to encourage our children to be in that flow of who they are created to be and the gifts and talents they can share with the world.

[@katechadbournebard]

I love what you share here so much! YES! We do indeed need to welcome in fun, joy, humor, and flow. And I'm right there with you practicing the path of ease. Most of us imbibed the idea that good people work hard, and like you said, that worthy things require hard work. Perhaps a new idea could be that we are good and worthy already, and that it's safe to relax and play more. Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment. Here's to more lightness and fun!

[@KaitlynAnderson-w9r]

This is so powerful, Kate! ❤❤️❤️

[@katechadbournebard]

@@KaitlynAnderson-w9r thank you, dearest girl! So kind of you to say ❤️

[@josephpetrocelli3930]

I have 20 years on you Kate and I am still learning. Thank you. I write short stories and flash fiction and love doing so although I am my only reader. I was about to delete quite a few beginnings of stories and poems that I told myself I will never develop. You saved me from a vast mistake.

[@katechadbournebard]

Oh, that brings me so much joy! And I know how that can be - that feeling that something we've made is "not much" and then on returning to it later, it looks quite different and even full of potential and gems. I'm so glad to hear that you paused a bit and held onto this gold.

[@amherst88]

Such profound life wisdom here Kate -- *thank* *you* for sharing it -- I'm marking this post to be played over and over :) ❤🧡💛

[@katechadbournebard]

I'm so grateful for and honored by your encouragement. Thank you, a chara!

[@folkmikedelaney]

Hm… could I put these six things into a song? I suppose I could.

[@katechadbournebard]

I KNOW you can - and I can't wait to hear it!!!

[@williambrooking333]

These are life lessons, Kate! A life well lived - a life lived creatively. I have to be very vigilant that the inner critic doesn't bring me down. And that awful feeling of wasted time and effort. Thankyou. To honour all the moments and fragments as necessary parts of the whole is a healthy thing 🙏. "A wide smile has many friends". This I would add to the having fun idea and féinmheas too. Smiling lifts hearts. Smiling socially shares the love (the only infectious thing I wish to share!). Smiling to oneself as one creates, socially or in the studio, lifts the work. I'm intrigued by your novel. I'd encourage you to see it to fledge. 🍀🙏🍀

[@katechadbournebard]

Oh, that's a marvelous adage and I'm taking it straight to heart. Reminds me of the Irish proverb, "A light heart lives long," and I like the reminder that there's something we can actually DO today to make life better: Smile! And thank you for the encouragement to send out my novel. I'm taking that straight to heart, too!

[@jacksonamaral329]

Good.

[@katechadbournebard]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@lucymruane]

Dia duit Kate agus cáirde Kate (friends of Kate) Thank you for your insights, so helpful. There is a book called “the artists way” by Julia Cameron , a book on creativity not just for artists. I dip in and out of it, a 13 week guide. I have never finished the book, I won’t throw it out or give it away because it’s a gentle reminder of possibilities ahead, just like your videos Kate. Go raibh maith agat (thank you) Lúsaí

[@katechadbournebard]

@@lucymruane Lúcaí, that’s a wonderful suggestion and thank you for it! I have that book, too, and she’s a great teacher. I especially like her idea of taking ourselves on “artist dates” - a little treat of fun and encouragement for the creator within.

[@lucymruane]

@@katechadbournebard tá an ceart agat !(you are right) . It takes a little courage to do something alone so (safety taken into consideration) it is a gentle knudge. Grma (go raibh maith agat, thank you)

[@wtrclr83]

Thank you Kate~ 💚

[@katechadbournebard]

You are so welcome, and thank you for being here with me!