The Successful Dilettante

Bonus Issue - Resources for Creative Multipreneurs

The Successful Dilettante
January 22, 2008  -  Bonus Issue  -  ISSN 1935-48866
Editor: Susan Henderson, coach@susanhenderson.com
Visit our website at: www.susanhenderson.com

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In This Issue:

Recommended Resources for Creative Multipreneurs

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Dearest Reader,

What? Back so soon?

In sending out my regularly scheduled issue on January 20th, I neglected to include my new feature: Recommended Resources for Creative Multipreneurs.

Not sure how or why I forgot this important addition, but I see it would serve me well to "walk my talk" and write down ALL my action goals for my ezine issues, too. This is an example of what can happen when you leave it rolling around in your head as a good idea or intention.  Lesson learned!

This first one is time sensitive so you'll want to act quickly.

Design Your Inspired Life!
Sally Evans has been teaching and inspiring clients to use their own unique creativity since 1997 through coaching, seminars, teleclasses and online courses. She is a multi-talented artist in her own right creating stunning one-of-a-kind jewelry, as well as fine art paintings.

Sally knows what it takes to design an inspired life.  Here is your opportunity to design a more joyful, abundant life for yourself. This six-week ecourse program launches January 23, 2008, with a one hour teleclass to get you off on the right foot at 5pm pacific, 6pm mountain, 7pm central, 8pm eastern. This call will be recorded if you can't make it, but you will want to sign up right away to receive your first lesson and take advantage of the low introductory price.

What a great way to wake up your creative spirit and start out this brand spanking new year. I signed up myself and I hope to "see" you on the call.

For more information and to sign up, go here:
http://www.jumpstartcreativity.com/design-your-inspired-life-sh.html

More great links for creative multipreneurs:

Joe's Goals is a simple yet powerful 100% fr~ee online goal tracking tool to make tracking your goals the easiest part of accomplishing them. One of my clients is using this and it is working out great for him. http://www.joesgoals.com

Remember The Milk. The best way to manage your tasks and to-do lists. "Never forget the milk (or anything else) again."  This robust task management tool is also at no-cost to you.  You can even get reminders via email, SMS, and instant messenger. Check it out here:  http://rememberthemilk.com

FreelanceSwitch.com is a blog site for freelancers or those aspiring to be. Great articles, advice, interviews, cartoons, resources, podcasts, community forum, job board and more. The most comprehensive site for freelancers that I've ever seen.  http://freelanceswitch.com

Fab Job Dream Careers
Print books, ebooks, CDs and hundreds of articles providing career advice. If you are looking for a change or would like to add another business to your portfolio, check out this site. The in depth descriptions of what is included in the various guides is of great benefit to you in deciding if you want to pursue a particular career.  http://www.fabjob.com

That's all for now folks. Hope this has been helpful.

Warmest Regards,

Susan

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2006-2008 Susan Henderson, All rights reserved.

Issue 38 - Collection Box for the Brain

The Successful Dilettante
January 20, 2008  -  Issue 38  -  ISSN 1935-48866
Editor: Susan Henderson, coach@susanhenderson.com
Visit our website at: www.susanhenderson.com

You are receiving this ezine because you subscribed to it or the creative multipreneur ecourse.  If you no longer wish to received this publication, please click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of this page.

You will find a printer friendly copy here:
http://www.susanhenderson.com/newsletter.html

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In This Issue

1) Greetings/News

2) Featured Article - Collection Box for the Brain

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Greetings/News

A warm welcome to all you intrepid creative multipreneurs. If you are looking for articles, tools, resources and book referrals to assist you on your journey in designing a life that encompasses your many passions and interests, you are in the right place.

In the last issue, I told you about a new movie to be released January 11th titled The Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. I have since seen the movie and I enjoyed it greatly.  Yes, it is bittersweet because these guys are dying of cancer, but it is also comical as they go about fulfilling the items on their list of what they want to accomplish before they "kick the bucket." The biggest takeaway: Don't wait, or waste, another minute!  Make that list, clarify what is important to you, and start living a more fulfilling life.

Last time we covered the importance of getting these wishes and dreams out of your head and down on paper. Today's article is about capturing all those fresh incoming ideas that continually show up as you go about your daily life. We will also talk about organizing your life goals in a way to start putting them into action.

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Featured Article - Collection Box for the Brain

Creating a life goals list is a continuing process. It is ever changing, morphing and growing as we check off items we have accomplished and add more as we change, morph and grow from those experiences.  Ideas and flashes of insight and inspiration can hit you anywhere, at any time—an overheard snippet of conversation, watching children play or dogs interacting at an off-leash park, alone in nature or in the middle of a crowded concert hall, in your dreams or in the shower.

Capturing the Idea
If you don't have a system to collect these nuggets, some may be lost forever. I suggest carrying a small notebook, memo pad or a few 3" X 5" cards with you at all times to capture those great ideas before they slip away.  Whether it is a big "aha" or a reminder to pick up the laundry from the dry cleaners, write it down.  For ease of sorting and putting these ideas or suggestions into action later on, I recommend writing one per page or card.

As for capturing those dreams, keep pen and writing material on your bedside table.  And if you can't wait until you are out of the shower to jot down your thoughts, there are waterproof boards and pens you can buy and hang in the shower. Really.

As Henriette Anne Klauser shares in her book Write It Down, Make It Happen, having a place to record your musings, and keeping it nearby with a pen, sends a signal to your brain that you are ready for its input.  She writes: "Carrying a little book with you honors the ideas that come to you, and when you do that, the part of your brain that comes up with these suggestions will be so thrilled to get a little attention and respect that it will send you even more. You will become a hotbed of lively suggestions sparking your imagination continually."

Organizing for Action
Now that you have dumped all your life goals out of your head and onto paper, transferred these goals to 3x5 cards, plus set up a system of capturing new ideas to add to your life goals list or ideas on how to execute items already on your list, you will want a simple way to start moving these into action.

In the last issue, I gave some suggestions for categorizing your goals as you transferred them to your cards, such as using different colored cards or pens for sorting out different goal categories like business, family, spiritual, health, learning/education, travel, and so on.

As you write each goal on its card ask yourself why you want it and how would you feel if you accomplished it.  Question your motivation. You want to spend your time and resources on those desired goals that come from within you and not from outside of you.

As you are sorting through these cards, pull out those you want to accomplish in this next year's time as well as those big dream projects that will take longer, but can be broken down into stages that can be accomplished this year.  For now, put the rest in a manila file, folder or file box marked "someday."  Don't worry. They will be there waiting for you.

Next up is to prioritize those goals you are going to accomplish this year. You will probably want to separate them into categories first. What do you want most and/or soonest? Flip that card over and so on through the cards. Also take a look at your big long-term goals and determine what part or stage you can accomplish in this next year.

The simple act of writing your goals down is a declaration of your intent to experience, have, do, be, visit, or learn what you most desire in life.  By declaring your intent, you are raising your level of awareness of the opportunities that are there for you.

In the next issue, I'll share with you some ideas on organizing, housing and scheduling these goal plans.

Warmly,

Susan

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Offerings from Susan Henderson Coaching

Coaching
I currently have openings for three one-on-one clients.  If you would like to learn more about if and how Susan Henderson Coaching can help you achieve your desired goals, please contact me to set up a time to talk. This conversation is complimentary so I can learn more about you, your current situation and goals. And you can learn about me, how I work with clients, and the coaching process.  If we both feel the coaching relationship is a good fit, we will move on from there.

Mastermind Book and Groups
The DIY Mastermind Group: Insider Secrets to Creating a Successful Mastermind Group of Your Own ebook is now available on my website. But that's not all. With the purchase of this book, I am offering you a 30 minute private brainstorming session.  Click here to find out more.

It's a great time to get involved with a mastermind group to help you make 2008 your best year ever. If you don't have the time to set up your own group, consider my Power of Five Facilitated Mastermind service.  Click here to learn more.

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2006-2008 Susan Henderson, All rights reserved.

Issue 37 - The Bucket List

The Successful Dilettante
January 5, 2008  -  Issue 37  -  ISSN 1935-48866
Editor: Susan Henderson, coach@susanhenderson.com
Visit our website at: www.susanhenderson.com

You will find a printer friendly copy here:
www.susanhenderson.com/newsletter

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In This Issue

1) Greetings/News

2) Featured Article - The Bucket List

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Greetings/News

Welcome and Happy New Year.

As mentioned in the last issue, you will be seeing some changes in this ezine. Feedback from the survey I did late last spring and from conversations and emails with some of you, indicated the majority prefer the how-tos of living and working as a successful dilettante or creative multipreneur. With that in mind, I will be offering articles, tools, tips, resources, book or website referrals and an occasional interview with a featured guest to help you in your journey.
 
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The Bucket List

On television lately there has been a trailer for a movie due out soon called The Bucket List. It stars Oscar winners Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson who as two terminally ill patients end up sharing a hospital room.  Even though they led very different lives, they discover they have two things in common: a need to come to terms with who they were and the choices they made, and a strong desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do. 

Freeman's character recalls a suggestion by his philosophy professor that his students compose a bucket list of everything they hope to accomplish before they kick the bucket.  So, they make a list and against doctor's orders, check themselves out of the hospital and set off on a wild journey to do just that.

This concept of making a life-goals list is not new. Many books and articles on manifesting what you desire in your life, suggest writing it all down as a way to make it happen.  With the freshness of a new year and talk of resolutions and goal setting, as well as taking stock of where you are and where you want to be, doesn't it seem like a perfectly good time and logical idea to make a bucket list of your own?

Get It Out of Your Head

Instead of carrying it around in your brain with vague someday wishes attached, get it all out of your head and onto paper where it can start to look real and doable in your lifetime. Include the seemingly impossible. Write down everything you want to be, do, have, visit, experience and learn before you kick your bucket.

Do this. Find some quiet, uninterrupted time to compose your list of life goals. Write really fast on paper. Do not linger over it or self-limit because you think it is too far out of reach. Do not organize it. Just dump it out there. Everything. Write from your heart.  Nobody is watching. This is only for you. Done? Great. Now set it aside for 12-24 hours or so. You may have the urge to tinker with it, but don't yet. Let it rest.

When you do go back through your list, first look for those things you wrote that are someone else's goals for you. Cross them out  Do the same for those goals that are driven by the desire to impress someone else, but aren't truly what you are about. As you go through your list and organize or categorize in a way that works best for you, think about the motivation for that goal.  Is it coming from inside or outside of you?

Get Into Action

Now let's not stop with a list in a notebook or on papers in file that is put away and forgotten. Let's get some action going. First, get a  big stack of 3" X 5" cards—white, colored, lined, unlined, whatever you prefer. Write down one goal per card.

What? Why didn't she tell me that in the first place, you might ask? Because it can slow you down in the brain-dumping process and you might be more apt to over think it all. 

Now is the time for giving each goal some thought. You might choose to use colored pens, cards, or even stickers for different goal categories, such as business, family, spiritual, personal, education/learning, travel, and so on. These goal cards will move you into action.  If it is satisfying for you to keep a list where you can check off or cross out a goal as it is achieved, by all means please do that, too.

What's Up for 2008?

As you are revisiting your list and transferring each goal to its own card, be thinking about what goals you want to accomplish in the next year. Set those cards in a separate pile. When you are through transferring all the goals and possibly adding a few more, take the goal cards you set aside for this next year and prioritize them by what you want most for yourself in 2008. You may want to break them out by category, as well.

Some of these goals will need to be broken down into smaller goals or action steps and have a longer timeline then others. And once you start writing down your goals, you will start receiving all sorts of energizing ideas related to the execution of those goals. It's exciting and a bit overwhelming.

In the next issue of this ezine (January 20th), I will share ideas, tools and resources on how to manage your goals and how to capture all those new ideas coming in. Meanwhile, get yourself a small notebook or 3" X 5" cards to carry with you at all times to grab those ideas as they come up.  If you wait too long, they are gone.

Do you love books and want to explore this deeper? Check out Write It Down, Make It Happen by Henriette Anne Klauser. It is full of advice and stories about ordinary people who experienced wonderful things in their lives after writing their goals on paper.

You are welcome to contact me if you have any questions or want to share your experience with this process.

Warmly,

Susan

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Offerings from Susan Henderson Coaching

Coaching
I currently have openings for three one-on-one clients.  If you would like to learn more about if and how Susan Henderson Coaching can help you achieve your desired goals, please contact me to set up a time to talk. This conversation is complimentary so I can learn more about you, your current situation and goals. And you can learn about me, how I work with clients, and the coaching process.  If we both feel the coaching relationship is a good fit, we will move on from there.

Mastermind Book and Groups
The DIY Mastermind Group: Insider Secrets to Creating a Successful Mastermind Group of Your Own ebook is now available on my website. But that's not all. With the purchase of this book, I am offering you a free 30 minute private brainstorming session.  Click here to find out more.

It's a great time to get involved with a mastermind group to help you make 2008 your best year ever. If you don't have the time to set up your own group, consider my Power of Five Facilitated Mastermind service.  Click here to learn more.

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2006-2008 Susan Henderson, All rights reserved.