Daily Musings with Allysia

Today's episode is my first podcast-only talk, and I was fairly embarrassed to record it. Last year, when the pandemic hit in March 2020, I was scammed out of a lot of money. I share this story as a way to practice courage, but more importantly, to connect with you.

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I want to make a big poster of this phrase and stick it where I'll see it multiple times a day. Doing what's reasonable is often a trap that leads to mediocrity and maintaining the status-quo. Being unreasonable is where the big ideas are, and where the growth lives.

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I had a teacher in high school who inspired me by sharing the message, which I live by to this day, "question everything".

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There are two main phases in the creative process: actual creation, and the phase that looks like doing nothing at all. I discuss this second phase in the video, and how allowing time and space to your creative and business projects is what allows them to grow. Creation isn't a constant grind; it's a process of tuning in and tuning out.

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One of my favorite exercises from Julia Cameron's legendary book "The Artist's Way" is her idea of having a weekly "Artist Date". In today's episode, I discuss why this is such a great idea that allows you to reconnect with fun.

101 artist date ideas: https://theartistswayblog.wordpress.c...

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The way I nourish my mind with ideas is by having great conversations and by reading books. The former is fabulous because it's an active discovery process where you collaborate on your mutual discoveries.

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My baby girl is three! I share some thoughts on parenting while she quietly sat in the room with me, before deciding that it would be more fun to go play with balloons downstairs.

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It isn't easy or particularly pleasant to face your flaws - so I find framing your flaws dramatically, as though you're a character in a story, a way to gain a degree of separation and reflect on yourself more realistically. What's your fatal flaw?

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Sometimes stepping away from your business (or other creative project) can seem like procrastination. And sometimes it is procrastination. But there's also a benefit in stepping back to see the bigger picture by focusing on something completely different.

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I decided to switch up my daily routine and do something totally different, something that felt fun and inspiring - researching and writing from 6am-12pm every day. Here are some thoughts on that total shift of tempo.

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