Читать книгу The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women - Gail McMeekin - Страница 25

It is vital that you make a connection with your inner muse so that she or he can become your personal Idea Manager. You need tools and assistance that will help you to capture your ideas so that you don't lose your inspiration. But you need your muse to walk you through a system that leads to evaluating and deciding about these choices. Ultimately, you must choose only one to three creative projects at a time or your energy will be much too scattered.

A lot of my coaching work with clients involves taking them through a research and decision-making process about each of their precious creative ideas and helping them to choose the wisest and most compelling one to focus on. Our first step, though, is getting acquainted with our inner muse. My muse, Tiffany, is a lovely, blonde, classy lady who lives in a luxurious cave high above the Coral Beach Club in Bermuda with a view of my beloved beach with its clear blue water, gorgeous grape leaves, and caves to explore. I discovered her many years ago in a meditation at EST and she has been my inner guide ever since. She meets with me whenever I like.

Here are some tips to help you find and build a solid relationship with your muse.

My friend Deborah Knox sent me an amazing book called Sleeping with Schubert by Bonnie Marson. It is a story of the transformation of a bored female lawyer, Liza Durbin, who was inhabited by the composer Franz Shubert's spirit. Her life became a creative journey extraordinaire. All of a sudden, she was playing concerts, listening to all kinds of music, co-composing music, and launching into a career as a performer. While there were many anxious moments and lots of controversy, Liza had the opportunity to dance and converse with a musical genius, and she became immersed in her own creative gifts and explorations. It is an engaging tale of passion, love, and creative risk-taking. While it is a fictional story, there are many lessons woven into the story for those of us with creative souls. These lessons include:

 Read about the lives of creative people you admire in your field, visit their houses, look at their original works, and study their contemporaries in diverse fields.

 Take a day or a week to pretend you are one of your muses and dress like them, visit their city, or adopt their creative schedules or habits. Get as much insight as possible into their lives and talents.

 Make a collage about your muse and study it. Then, at the right time, choose his or her best success strategies and incorporate them into your own creative practice.

 When you are ready to grow again, move on to a new mentor and begin the process anew. It will be life-changing!

An interesting note: this was Bonnie's first novel, and film rights for the book were recently purchased by Paramount Pictures. Bonnie is a long-time artist, and her own adventure with a muse has brought her great success.