{"id":19911,"date":"2022-01-12T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asliceoforange.net\/?p=19911"},"modified":"2022-01-09T20:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T02:22:38","slug":"balance-and-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asliceoforange.net\/balance-and-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Out of Balance Stifles Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you ever feel out of balance in your life? Where you find your days lopsided in your to-do\u2019s, and you aren\u2019t able to dig into your well to do what you really want to do?&nbsp;Have you found yourself with the desire to create stuffed inside but no way to come out? 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Taking the time to organize thoughts, goals, wins, and losses, and get out of the funk I found myself in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block stk-a734afc\" data-block-id=\"a734afc\"><h2 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\">Time to conduct a Sacred Rest Assessment<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Susan May Warren added the Sacred Rest assessment in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mybrilliantwritingplanner.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022 Brilliant Writer Planner<\/a> (that I love!). It\u2019s a way to determine the rest you are lacking (and what you are not). It\u2019s all about balance. And she organizes our needs into these buckets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Physical<\/li><li>Emotional<\/li><li>Creative<\/li><li>Spirutal<\/li><li>Social<\/li><li>Sensory<\/li><li>Mental.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block stk-baf868c\" data-block-id=\"baf868c\"><h2 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\">When you find your life is out of harmony<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, my mental and creative areas are sorely lacking. And taking time over the last two weeks to purge through some to-do piles, evaulate my year, and write out thoughts, made me realize I don\u2019t schedule this type of downtime for my brain enough.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s exactly what the assesment is supposed to do.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Help you figure out areas you should focus on this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, I like time to let my mind catch up with my inputs. Let my mind wander. With my scheduled life, I don\u2019t get a lot of time to do that. Yet when I did recently, I found the creative juice I\u2019ve been missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ideas began to pop into my thoughts. Energy to dive in and get to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">work<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-stackable-heading stk-block-heading stk-block stk-941d496\" data-block-id=\"941d496\"><h2 class=\"stk-block-heading__text\">Finding Symmetry<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>And that what was so exciting, because <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/denisemcolby\/work-word-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WORK<\/a><\/span><\/strong> is my word for 2022. Something I chose because God isn\u2019t finished with me yet. And I am not finished with this writing journey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He who began a good <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">work<\/span><\/strong> in you will be faithful to complete it. 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