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		<title>Blue Moon Creativity Quirks</title>
		<link>http://reptitude.com/how-to-tips/limit-creativit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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The more I read and experience and observe creative people, the more I notice how we get in our own way and limit our creativity by imposing rules about the conditions we require in order to create. We might be convinced we can only create using specific tools or in a certain setting or under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cope with Creative Anxiety Exercise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to bring up the subject of creative anxiety twice in one week and then not offer a coping exercise!  In his self-help creativity manual Coaching the Artist Within, psychologist Eric Maisel suggests we learn to appreciate what he terms the “Tao of Anxiety” and thus coach ourselves through it.
It is, as are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Creative Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://reptitude.com/how-to-tips/understanding-creative-anxiety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Eric Maisel explains in his expert creativity manual Coaching the Artist Within, anxiety can be a tricky thing for creative people. Sometimes fear serves as a valuable alert, sometimes as a false alarm. But how can you tell the difference? And what can you do about it?
Symptoms of Anxiety
First of all, you must learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rational Creative Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://reptitude.com/how-to-tips/rational-creative-anxiety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his self-help creativity guide, Coaching the Artist Within, psychologist Eric Maisel devotes an entire chapter to Anxiety. Certainly some anxieties are rooted in the irrational, but creative people often experience reality-based, rational fears. What happens, for example, if we perform badly, or our book does not sell, or no gallery will represent us? These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Outsmart Perfectionism</title>
		<link>http://reptitude.com/how-to-tips/how-to-outsmart-perfectionism/</link>
		<comments>http://reptitude.com/how-to-tips/how-to-outsmart-perfectionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beliefs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep in Chapter 8 of Eric Maisel’s Coaching the Artist Within, we come across a nugget on identifying and dealing with perfectionism. Maisel argues that we are culturally conditioned to value a high gloss perception of perfection over reality. Reality, of course, includes both glossy and matte, highs and lows, successes and failures, perfection and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honor the Creative Process</title>
		<link>http://reptitude.com/creativity/honor-the-creative-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you committed to the process of making art, or are you one of those creative types who, as Eric Maisel describes in Coaching the Artist Within, would much rather imagine that other (lucky!) people’s creative projects finish themselves joyfully and magically by effortless genius while you, meanwhile, refuse to get out of bed? 
Dilemma: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Not to Create More</title>
		<link>http://reptitude.com/creativity/how-not-to-create-more/</link>
		<comments>http://reptitude.com/creativity/how-not-to-create-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Synchronicity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creating in the middle of things is admittedly not easy and often difficult, fraught with all kinds of risks and fears and do-ability issues. If “Just do it NOW!” doesn’t push you to take action, then you may need to work on some strategies to help yourself get moving. In Coaching the Artist Within, creativity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anxiety, Self Talk and Creative Blocks</title>
		<link>http://reptitude.com/how-to-tips/anxiety-self-talk-and-creative-blocks/</link>
		<comments>http://reptitude.com/how-to-tips/anxiety-self-talk-and-creative-blocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://reptitude.com/?p=417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In his creativity book Coaching the Artist Within, Eric Maisel insists we need to get a grip on our mind, take charge of our own self talk. We talk to ourselves all the time, and all too often what we are saying in our self-talk is not helpful. We talk ourselves out of creating, out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responding to Criticism</title>
		<link>http://reptitude.com/how-to-tips/responding-to-criticism/</link>
		<comments>http://reptitude.com/how-to-tips/responding-to-criticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin says snark = quick &#8216;n dirty and fun &#8216;n easy while earnest = less shiny, long term better. He&#8217;s probably right, he&#8217;s a plenty smart guy. 
What can we learn, if anything, from either or both kinds of criticism? Sometimes there&#8217;s a kernel of truth in the snark, or a hit you over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workaholic or Blocked Creative?</title>
		<link>http://reptitude.com/creativity-at-work/workaholic-or-blocked-creative/</link>
		<comments>http://reptitude.com/creativity-at-work/workaholic-or-blocked-creative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity at Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artist Date]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you guilty of work abuse? In Week 10 of The Artist’s Way creativity program, Julia Cameron asks us to consider whether we might be workaholics. While forward progress requires steady work, there is an emotional difference between that and being a work addict. 
Addicted to Work or Just Busy?
There is a difference between working [...]]]></description>
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