Do you ever have an hour or a day when you’re feeling creative – but can’t find the right outlet or enough time to express yourself? If you just sweep those feelings aside and soldier on to the next to-do item on your list of chores, you are doing a disservice to your Self.
Some people close down their creativity in an instant by a statement such as ‘ I can’t draw’ or ‘I’m not good at painting’. Their statement may echo something they were told as a child by an unsympathetic school teacher, yet the message has stayed with them all their life.
Julia Cameron (1948-) American teacher, artist, author of The Artist’s Way