We’ve all heard of the Law of Abundance concepts popularized in recent times by law of attraction books like The Secret. Earlier in the last century, it was Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill and also As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen. Both were landmark books in the New Age, New Thought and Personal Transformation movements.

Still immensely popular today, especially amongst entrepreneurs, these books of vision, self-encouragement and self-responsibility strike a chord and have inspired many.

If the Law of Abundance is the vehicle, daily creating is the engine to get you where you want to go. Success requires vision and action in balance.

~LeAura Alderson, author, entrepreneur, cofounder-iCreateDaily

You’ve heard that “The road to success is paved with failure”, right? Do you believe it? Do you welcome failure or avoid it? If you fear failure, it’s time to get over it.

When you love what you do, you’re more likely to love your life. When you love your life, you’re far more likely to see the positives, to seek the positives and to be the positive in the lives of those around you.

Carla Sonheim who is a painter, illustrator, and creativity workshop instructor. Carla is known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students rediscover a more spontaneous, playful approach to creating.

Carla is the author of three instructional art books, including:

Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun

Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals: A Mixed-Media Workshop and

The Art of Silliness: A Creativity Book for Everyone.

In 2012 Carla co-authored Creative Photography Lab with her husband, Steve Sonheim. Steve and Carla offer online classes in drawing, painting and mixed media with a variety of talented teachers, and we’re eager to dive into Carla’s story.

Topics Discussion: 

Carla's story 

How Carla started creating art courses

How her former publishing career helped her

Turning art classes to art books

Making money online with art classes 

How Carla and her husband became business partners

Working with other art teachers 

How Carla created a business to support her lifestyle & health

Using art to heal and work through clinical depression 

Carla's future goal and vision for the next few years

Immersion in Growth Mindset

Most issues begin—and end—with thoughts. Thoughts are the progeny of conditioning and of habit... belief and repetition. In other words, we become what we repeatedly think and do.

In order to fulfill your visions for your life, immersion through actions, connection, and inspiring, elevating content is so helpful to success. More than helpful, growth mindset is critical to a happy successful life.

Your success is dependent upon you immersing in what you want. To achieve what you want, you need to surround yourself with the people, books and environments that pull you forward into your best version of yourself.  Growth mindset quotes and memes help you focus on positives.

Focusing on positives fills you with more positives.

Read the full article here.

Recently, a few iCreateDaily community members shared their dissatisfaction with some of their art. 

Full article: https://www.icreatedaily.com/atelophobia/

It wasn’t perfect. Fear of imperfection, also known as ‘atelophobia‘, is common amongst creatives. Especially artists new to putting their work out into the world. And while you may not have this phobia, if you struggle with being satisfied with your work, this may help.

Anyone creating anything knows the resemblance to children… to how it is that your work is like your children… your babies. Indeed, sometimes, birthing your work into the world can be a painful process. Like a birthing, a simultaneously wonderful event, and one fraught with pain and uncertainties, hopes and dreams… and fear.

Full article: https://www.icreatedaily.com/atelophobia/

Don’t settle for less, but… don’t let ‘perfectionitis’, paralyze you. That’s what we’re doing with the brand vision for iCreateDaily. https://www.icreatedaily.com/just-ship-it/

Devani and I had been discussing the concept of a brand for creators for a few years now. We love working with, serving and hanging out with creators, and these conversations began to take shape via a domain name we claimed in January of 2017.

The timing wasn’t right.

But… is it ever?

No Time? Start Anyway!

We didn’t have the time that would be needed to do it “right”; we were already working seven days a week building other businesses, #TheEntrepreneurLife, so we shelved it. But eight months later we couldn’t stuff it back into the treasure chest of ideas any more. Like characters in a book that demand to be written into the story, it wouldn’t leave us alone, so we had to do it… to just start.

While we didn’t have the time, we knew we were committed to doing this, and so we did.

To create daily is to create momentum, power and progress toward your goals. Carpe momentum translates as ‘seize the moment’. It’s interesting to ponder the correlation between the moment and momentum. In that correlation lay the seeds of success. Never underestimate the power of a moment to contribute to the success of your day. Ultimately, all success is…

The Power of Positive Thinking is a Thing. A Big Thing.

We’ve all heard it all our lives: various ways of expressing the power of positive thoughts and positive words to turn things around. We know the platitudes… the sage advice in timeless sayings.

But do we do it?

Popular Positive Sayings

“Think positive.”

“Look on the bright side.”

“It’s the glass half full or half empty.”

“Take a deep breath and count to 20.”

“Look on the sunny side of life.”

“When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.”

We’ve all heard these kinds of familiar sayings forever. Perhaps that’s the problem. These have been around for so long and we’ve heard them so much that we tend to overlook them.

Familiarity leads to insouciance. Like the scenery on the road we travel every day, we tend to not even notice it anymore. That kind of indifference is common.

Same thing for wisdom we think we know.

The difference comes with the application.

A Garden Metaphor: How Does Your Garden Grow?

What are you planting in your garden of life? Strengths are like the plants in your garden. You plant the seeds you want to grow and tend them well. The more they grow the less room for weeds. What you focus on grows, whether in this garden metaphor or in your life and work.

What you focus on, grows.

~Multiple authors

Read the full article here!