DeCluttering for Creatives: Metaphor and Meaning in Creative Spaces

A few weeks ago, my best friend Marney Makridakis and I presented two teleclasses on the topic of "DeCluttering for Creatives: Metaphor and Meaning in Creative Spaces."

Because both classes filled to capacity so quickly, and many other folks on the waiting list were not able to attend, we wanted to make it possible for everyone to STILL have some time with Marney and me -- and get inspired to change your creative space FOR GOOD!

So we've put together a "virtual workshop" version, where you can literally take the workshop in your own home, in your own time-frame...whenever and wherever you want!

The virtual workshop contains a high-quality audio recording of one of the original classes, so you can literally experience the live workshop first-hand. You'll also get a 12-page workbook that takes the concepts in the call and distills them into a doable, step-by-step process that you can start RIGHT NOW!

We've set the price for the eBook and recording at $19.00, but until January 15, we're offering it at an introductory discount of just $9.00. This is a modest price that covers the expenses of our converting the course into this new format, but also makes it accessible for those who were on the original waiting list to experience this powerful workshop first-hand. The workbook and audio link are delivered immediately upon ordering, so you can literally be inspired within minutes!

Here are a few comments we received after our two workshops in December:

"Was this workshop really only an hour? I felt like I spent an entire day with two experts who hit me over the head with what I finally needed to hear. I feel in control and excited for what's coming next. Thanks, Marney and Diane." - Brenna

"When I took this class with Marney and Diane, something awakened in me, something crucial and powerful and quite wonderful. I suddenly felt empowered to not only see my clutter in a new light, but actually have both the motivation and the know-how to DEAL with it, once and for all. I've made great strides from this class, thanks to Marney and Diane's teaching style and the very helpful workbook." - Irene

"Hi Marney and Diane, Thank you both for pushing me in the right direction of decluttering my studio. Although I have not started yet, I definitely have the urge to start as soon as possible! I am glad to have been reminded that there are ways to solve this problem, other than moving or throwing in a burning match! lol.. So many thanks, and I hope to be able to tell you very soon: "I did it!" -- Dorit

"The insights and exercises were so enlightening...I see a light at the end of the tunnel, thanks to your wonderful guidance. What a wonderful holiday present to myself, a fresh start!" -- Kathy

The direct link for the "DeCluttering for Creatives" virtual workshop is here.

What better way to usher in the New Year than an inspiring introduction to a hands-on system to get to the bottom of both internal AND external creative clutter! Whether your creative space is a full-size studio or a TV tray in the corner of the kitchen, the happy future of you AND your space are worth $9.00, yes?

If our workshop feels "right" to you, I hope you'll take this leap right away to get your year off to a great start (and save ten bucks in the process!)

On behalf of Marney and myself, I send open and flowing best wishes to you for sumptuous, sacred spaces in 2005. Thanks so much for wanting to Cultivate Life!

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Wisemama Way

Courtesy of my best friend Karen Jones of BenevolentPlanet.com here are links and suggestions on how you can support the Tsunami relief effort no matter where you are Right Now.

For a mind-boggling but surely comprehensive, global list of what's happening, what's needed, and potential options for helping: tsunamihelp.blogspot.com

Another good collective info site: tsunamivictims.org

• Check with the faith community (churches, temples) in your area to see if they are collecting goods or need help sorting.
  
• Also check with your area Lions Club.
  
• Raise funds among any group you belong to.
  
• Ask your favorite local business -- coffee shop, car wash, etc. to donate a portion of receipts to the cause for a certain time period, and offer to distribute flyers, web postings, and notices to local media to draw customers.
  
• Ask your local bookstore or cybercafe to host a fundraising event (they can pass a can for donations or charge a nominal admission) with readings, art displays and music that express world compassion.
  
• Ask your chamber of commerce to develop a list of its members who will donate a portion of receipts for a certain time period; offer to help publicize the list via flyer distribution, web postings, notice to news outlets.
  
• Ask your community leaders to organize a memorial ceremony.
  
• Ask planners of fundraising events or festivals scheduled in your community for January to designate tsunami relief as the fund recipient, either in whole or in part.
  
• Identify people in your community who lost loved ones and do a kindness for them.

Books I Love

The Gift of Change : Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life

Wow! What a book to have in my possession as the information literally poured in from the Tsunami disaster in the India Ocean.

This time Ms. Williamson explores the the subject of Change.

How some things we want to Do...
because they seem so big...
so huge...
so overwhelming to tackle...
we Don't.

We just keep pushing them to the "back of the drawer" so to speak, because we already have so much to Do. Her number One suggestion about how to keep up our strength in these fast paced, one-crisis-after-another times, is to learn how to slow down!

A women of my own Heart!

Change appeared in the most extreme fashion to over 150,000 members of our global community...
which rippled out to their families...
which rippled out to us...

I am grateful hear about all the outpouring of support, the positive things, that are happening because of this latest disaster. Let's keep it up. Read The Gift of Change : Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life for inspiration of how to Do this.




Ask And It Is Given: Learning To Manifest Your Desires
I have many, many best friends who have been inspired by the work of Esther and Jerry Hicks. And still, I never got around to check it out myself. Now I know why. I needed to receive their work through the perfect people, my best friends and artists Bill & Debbie Rolig.

The combination of the information contained in this fabulous book, combined with the perfection of the people who gave it to me, brings tears to my eyes even as I write this. Thanks for this gift my friends. I LOVED it.




Neat Links

Marvel at the perfection of one snowflake! Marvel at how if this can Be Done, what else could be possible!

SnowCrystals.com This site is all about snow crystals and snowflakes -- what they are, where they come from, and just how these remarkably complex and beautiful structures are created, quite literally, out of thin air.