{"id":388,"date":"2009-10-03T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2009\/motivation\/"},"modified":"2009-10-03T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T21:00:00","slug":"motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Sse-g4j2k6I\/AAAAAAAAAWY\/UHkmA2AfOgg\/s1600-h\/100_6390.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388484951319942050\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Sse-g4j2k6I\/AAAAAAAAAWY\/UHkmA2AfOgg\/s320\/100_6390.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI am currently part of an online creativity course called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativethursday.com\/e-course.htm\">In the Fishbowl<\/a>&#8221; and in two weeks, I have been prompted to think (more than usual!) about what I do. Why do I create? Why do I love what I do? What does it say about me? What is success?<\/p>\n<p>I have curled up <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">with a<\/span> good old fashion journal and pen to muse on these questions and will share some of my thoughts in the next few weeks when things quieten down (it&#8217;s crazy round here at the moment &#8211; have spent ALL day sorting the contents of my workshop which, hopefully, will be ready to occupy on Thursday &#8211; hurray!)<\/p>\n<p>One thing that I have been challenged about is the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">source <\/span>of my creativity and art. Getting in touch with it, staying in touch with it.<\/p>\n<p>This quote arrived in my inbox today from the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inwardoutward.org\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Inward, Outward<\/span><\/a>&#8221; daily mailings and it rings very true:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Don&#8217;t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive<\/span>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have a beautiful Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently part of an online creativity course called &#8220;In the Fishbowl&#8221; and in two weeks, I have been prompted to think (more than usual!) about what I do. Why do I create? Why do I love what I do? What does it say about me? What is success? I have curled up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,40,13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artful-living","category-developing-as-an-artist","category-workshops-e-courses","category-soulful-life","category-soulful-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}