Comments on: 3 Questions that Reveal the Awful, Ugly Truth About You

By: Denise

Denise — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:16:21 +0000

very true

By: tsnipes

tsnipes — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:54:33 +0000

Hi Denise-

I think the answer especially to #3 and the struggle that you’ve had for years is to begin by identifying SPECIFIC habits or behaviors that get in the way of your creativity and addressing each accordingly (and of course, you do not need to identify them here for the world to see), but identifying them specifically leads to specific, practical solutions.

Example:

ONE of the SEVERAL things that used to hinder my creativity was the failure to practice my drawing skills.
Knowing this, 2 practical steps I realized worked for me were:
1) A simple step of buying a fresh sketchbook. For me, a fresh sketchbook gets filled up. No sketchbook, no sketches.

2)Buying an art magazine and viewing other’s work. This always challenges me and pushes me to get off my butt and DRAW!

If I limited my insight to “I get in my own way.” without saying fully “I get in my own way by not having a fresh skecthbook in the house”, I would never overcome the habit.

By: Denise

Denise — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:10:42 +0000

1. Tell the truth. What habit do you have that gets in the way of your creativity?
Where does one start? I guess I can sum it all up as “myself”. I know this is not a habit, but the “habit” is the ritual of allowing myself to get in my way. The habit of falling into the same weaknesses, the same unhealthy behaviors, and all the self defeating destructive tendencies I have developed over the years.

2. Tell the truth. What do you think might be a problem? More than likely, it is (that is, if you’re telling THE TRUTH.)
I dont really know ….. being human , perhaps?

3. Tell the truth. What do you plan to do about the habit or problem that you identified? Nothing? Think about it later? TELL the TRUTH.
I have been struggling with the answer to this question for years. I continually seek GOD’s wisdom and guidance. Granted, I sometimes rebel like the child I am and quite often do the very opposite of what I should do. I often do not know why I do such things. I certainly understand the words of one of the Apostles (I think Paul but I am not sure), whom said – I do the things I do not want to do and do not do the things I ought. He was also baffled as to why he did such things. I can definitely relate to his predicament.
The only way I can break my “habit(s)” is to surrender to GOD moment by moment, to allow Him to mold me into the person He planned for me to be, and to continually forgive myself as He forgives me so I can become something bigger and better than myself in order to glorify Him in all I do.
Now that I said all this, I think that this exercise may have been meant to be more focused on certain pieces or parts of ourselves in order to tackle them individually. Honestly, I have tried tackling my “habits” individually and I don’t get anywhere. I have realized the only answer is allowing GOD to heal me and form me as He wishes. I just need to get out of His way, allow Him, and listen to Him. What I need to do is put Him first and continue to seek His way in all things. He promises that if we do this, all other things will fall into place.

By: techne

techne — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:55:40 +0000

1. bad habit: procrastination (i.e. distraction)
2. wastes time (looking at it, i think the first 2 questions are more or less the same, aren’t they? should the question be “why do you think that is a problem?”)
3. schedule time better

By: tsnipes

tsnipes — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:23:07 +0000

Great feedback, ALFG Family!

It seems like the overall challenge that we all have (including Your’s Truly)is fitting creative moments into a time-starved day or week.

Tony-