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Reserve for yourself at least fifteen minutes of quiet time every day to simply listen to your thoughts. Find yourself an impenetrable hideout (you can if you really want to) and relax into the silence. Allow your inspirations to flow into your awareness. Leave your internal censors at the door and accept whatever shows up. Sometimes ideas that seem silly hold great wisdom. What inspires you? What do you feel excited or passionate about? What kinds of books or magazines do you read? What kinds of people do you most like to talk with? What kinds of interests or projects are you drawn to in your leisure time? If you went back to school, what would you most like to learn about? What do you fantasize about? What are your aspirations?

What kinds of activities stimulate your creative expression? Do you long to paint, write, build, organize, sing, or play something? Select a method for capturing your images, such as writing, taping, drawing, role-playing. Save any thoughts or feelings you want to, but honor them all. Note everything and anything that comes to mind. What is your intuition urging you to explore or experience? Let this exercise be the beginning of a creative journal, idea book, or collage. You will be surprised at the wisdom in your own internal guidance. This daily date with your creative voice could change your life. Trust your process.

Creativity is not a driving force. It happens. It creates itself and you have to be open.

—MAYUMI ODA, ARTIST AND WRITER