monday musings…Give Yourself Credit

Do you give yourself enough credit for what you do?
Creating art requires us to think outside the box, whether it’s about the objects or elements we select, how we use our supplies, or the way we assemble it. It requires us to creatively combine unrelated thoughts and materials with nothing but a vision of what we think we’re going to create or believe we can create. It takes a leap of faith.

Do you give yourself enough credit for what you create?
I’m not talking about how good of an artist you are, I’m talking about the fact that you sit down and face the blank canvas, paper, etc.! Creating anything takes courage; it takes belief in yourself to know something, even if you feel that you don’t know enough. I think it says a lot about the human spirit of each and every person…despite the unknown, we know we must move forward, no matter the fear or anxiety, we must create art…and so we take a leap of faith.

Do you give yourself enough credit for what you know?
We show our humility and our sense of humanity when we put our art out to be seen and make ourselves vulnerable to others’ opinions and criticism. We are at our most fragile when we display what has come from inside our hearts and minds, and we show our belief in humanity when we do; believing most will be honest but not brutal. It takes courage to be able to hear what someone has to say and not have it reflect how we feel about ourselves. We must believe in ourselves enough to know what we know, and we must believe in ourselves enough to take that leap…

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Now it’s time to give yourself credit for all that trivial knowledge you learned in 5th Grade!!!
Here are the answers to “Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader” quiz I posted last Monday…
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. meter
6. C
7. C
8. A
9. 36
10. inside
11. Katmandu
12. B
13. A
14. 1,000
15. true
16. C
17. B
18. C
19. 150 degrees
20. A

(i missed five…#4, #11, #13, #14, #20)

Posted on Tuesday, May 1st, 2007 at 4:43 am. Filed under: Blog, musings RSS 2.0 feed.

3 Responses to “monday musings…Give Yourself Credit”

1. daisies says:

   05/01/2007 at 3:18 pm

   in july, i’ll have had my blog for 4 years, insanity !! its funny how they evolve and change, just like us :)

   i really enjoyed this post and know that i don’t always give myself enough credit for my creations but i will think on this now, thanks to you …

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2. Anonymous says:

   05/02/2007 at 11:37 pm

   i missed five too, but they were different ones than you!
   ~jane swanson

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3. Leah says:

   05/08/2007 at 8:51 pm

   i missed 4: 2,11,13, and 17. Not so bad, not that great either! :-)

   happy almost two year blogiversary!

   i look forward to reading all your juicy posts in the years to come.

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