Are you looking for more clarity, more fulfillment in your creative process? Feel like you're stuck in a rut? Are you no longer reaching your full artistic potential? Get moving and feel great about it. Stop hesitating. What are you waiting for? Create! Using exercises and positive, straightforward language, Mary Beth Maziarz will show you how to define, plan, and pursue your creativity. Our lives are works of art. Living is a creative act. We're creating every day. When life gets busy, though, we ignore the creative opportunities in our lives. We fall into a rut. We are no longer living, but are merely alive. Maziarz provides a framework and practical tips for kick-starting the creative process. This includes an examination of energy and what it has to do with art, how to work with our deepest motivations, desires and feelings and how to develop awareness techniques. Also included are specific ideas about time management, developing a support group and getting rid of those flimsy excuses that block our creative output. "It's easy to hold our great ideas hostage, or to talk them away into things we'll do someday, or wanted to do once, but it's so much more thrilling to free them and watch them take flight." —Mary Beth Maziarz