365 Daily Affirmations for Creativity

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By: Janet Luongo

1-889262-57-9 $16.95 trade paperback (English language edition)

Foreword by Jack Canfield, co-creator, Chicken Soul for the Soul® book series Artist, workshop leader, and writer Janet Luongo provides affirmations to inspire creativity, divided into 12 categories. There are 60 exercises for individuals and managers.

Detailed Information

Foreword by Jack Canfield vii
Introduction 1

Part I: 365 Daily Affirmations for Creativity 15

1.   I Believe I Am Original   17
2.   I Draw on Inner Resources   21
3.   Laughter, Music, and Dreams Spark My Creativity   25
4.   I Seek Inspiration Everywhere   29
5.   The Young Connect Me to My Imagination   34
6.   I Understand the Creative Process   38
7.   I Am Innovative at Work   43
8.   I Am a Creative Leader   47
9.   My Life is the Canvas Upon Which I Create   51
10. I Practice the Art of Relationships   56
11. My Passion is Unstoppable   60
12. My Spirit Continually Renews Me   65

Part II: Exercises for Enhancing Creativity 71

For Individuals 73
Group Exercises 93

Part III: Resources 111

    Books and Articles   113
    Websites   121
    Associations   123
    About the Author   125

Published or Reader Reviews

From www.heartlandreviews.com

"This is much more than a list of affirmations. There are individual and group exercises for enhancing creativity. There are also many resources such as books, articles, websites, and associations cited. The affirmations are broken down into twelve different areas with explanations as to why they are important. The book is of value to both individuals and to trainers and life coaches. We rated it five hearts."

"Each affirmation is like a daily toast to life."
—Edward Sackstein, cellist and psychotherapist

"Janet Luongo’s 365 Daily Affirmations for Creativity is a well-designed and well-written book that will help anyone tap into, increase, and further develop his or her natural creativity and creative thinking abilities."

—Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP, author, Broken Crayons: Break Your Crayons and Raw Outside the Lines

"Creativity doesn't have to be hard and Janet Luongo makes it easy. Filled with sound advice, practical ideas, and inventive assignments, this book should be well read and placed on your bedside table. You'll be more creative for it!"

—Chris Clarke-Epstein, CSP, speaker and author, 78 Important Questions Every Leader Should Ask and Answer

"Every artist can now have just what’s needed first thing in the morning. Words have power. By speaking Janet Luongo’s positive (and true) words every morning, artists can set themselves on a successful course of action every day. By the way, this book is for everyone. Every business owner, employee, parent, care-giver, auto-mechanic, etc., needs to create every day. We’re all divine artists."

—Bobbie Horowitz, writer, performer, and founder of the Times Square Group

"Janet is exceptionally skilled at reaching down into the soul of an individual or a group to find a spark of creativity. Like magic a group will realize they have more in common than they ever imagined. The individual will discover unknown talents and potential. How exciting that many unsuspecting audiences will open the book and be changed....possibly forever!!"

—Elena deMurias, Former President of the Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT.

"Whether you think you are creative or you think you aren't —you're right. When you think you are creative you will actually be more creative; that’s why the creative affirmations contained in this book are so powerful. If you want to be more creative, buy this book."

—Randall Munson, CSP, speaker and co-author of the best-seller Create the Business Breakthrough You Want

“Janet's inspiration, whether in person or from her book, warmly encourages the creativity that lies within us all. I know she has a very active dream life!”

—Anita Hall, dream worker and author, The Stars At Night

From the Foreword by Jack Canfield: "It’s in your hands to create the life you want. This small book fits easily in your hands and pocket, but don’t just read it once. Read an affirmation every day until you absorb its wisdom. Affirm yourself, visualize accomplishments, and most of all, take daily action. May your life be truly enriched in the process."

—Jack Canfield, co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul® book series, and The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.

Book Excerpt

From Jack Canfield’s Foreword:

How many times do you look for the answers to your problems outside yourself? 365 Daily Affirmations for Creativity starts off by pointing you in the right direction—the answer lies within. If you want to be more creative in your personal and professional life, positive beliefs about yourself and drawing on inner resources are essential…. This small book fits easily in your hands and pocket, but don’t just read it once. Read an affirmation every day until you absorb its wisdom. . Affirm yourself, visualize accomplishments, and most of all, take daily action. May your life be truly enriched in the process.”

From Janet Luongo’s introduction:

“I’ve been asked why I wrote this book of affirmations on creativity. The answer is that early in my life I chose to affirm, not to denigrate myself as an artist and it has made all the difference. In grade school, one of my teachers inspired me when she told me I had artistic gifts and a light to share. Believing in that light has lightened up my path.”

Sample exercises:

For individuals:

6. Brag

When I was trained by Betsy Damon to lead No Limits for Women Artists sessions, she asked our group to brag about what we were most proud of. Most of us were uncomfortable doing that because it sounded arrogant. We soon realized “bragging” is an important way to identify your strengths and true creative purpose. It’s essential to knowing who you are.

For groups (at work):

4. Throw Out the “Junk”

To free the mind to grasp the new, at a team meeting set up a real or imaginary garbage container in the center into which all the "junk" is discarded. Toss out ideas and policies that are obsolete, inefficient and negative. A variation is to ask people to write down anonymously all the “gripes” they have about their day, the meeting, the team, anything they are feeling worried about or bothered by. With their permission you can read a few—they usually sound trite and funny. Then rip them all up and throw them away. This is the clearing away of blocks to the creative process.

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About the Author

Janet Luongo

Janet Luongo, author of 365 Daily Affirmations for Creativity, is an artist, writer, and workshop leader on creativity who has a multiplicity of talents including producing five documentaries and founding an association for women artists in her home state of Connecticut. She is in demand as a speaker on creativity before a variety of groups. For more information, go to Janet's website www.openminds-opendoors.com.

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"Unlock the Power of Your Presentations"

By Janet Luongo

Reprinted with permission from Open Mind Open Doors newsletter, Volume 1, #2, April 2002, a free newsletter by Janet Luongo for people who want to: open minds to creative power and open doors to opportunity. All rights reserved. Also reprinted, with permission ,from the National Speakers Association, Seminar/Workshop Professional Expert Group Newsletter. This article may not be altered or republished with written permission of its copyright holder.

10 Keys To Powerful Presentations
1.  Be yourself
2.  Begin by getting attention
3.  Care about your audience
4.  Tell personal stories
5.  Use body gestures and facial expression
6.  Be visual
7.  Find some humor
8.  Act out dialogue
9.  Keep notes to a minimum
10.  Close with something memorable

I want to tell you the story about a young African-American woman who was worried about giving her culminating speech. We had been studying presentation skills and communication over ten sessions and Roberta had been tight and inhibited all along. Her nervousness caused her to speak too fast and drained her of any facial expression. A serious young woman with intelligent things to say, she kept her personality locked up.

To loosen people up, I led games like charades. We made exaggerated faces at each other that made us laugh. We joked that people could see us through the window and thought we were crazy. But I had a clear purpose: acting "silly" in front of others would free us of inhibitions and we'd be more natural when we gave our speeches. Still Roberta remained stiff, resistant to my urgings to "play."

I told personal stories that made me vulnerable and asked them to search for their own personal stories. One day I told the group about a marvelous and successful speaker, Les Brown, whom I had just heard in New York. I related his story of having been abandoned as a one-year-old baby, but adopted by a wonderful woman who had only a third grade education. Les' goal was to be successful enough to buy her a house. After Les made his first million he bought his mother not one, but four houses.

I wondered if Roberta would be inspired to tell her own real life story or if she would remain a prisoner of her fears. On the day of her last speech, she arrived wearing red. When she got up to deliver her "I Believe" speech, she paused to visibly gather her courage. She then broke out into such a broad smile that the class applauded. She animatedly related how her friends had encouraged her in her life by saying, "You, go girl!"

Roberta then told us she would be the first in her family to graduate college. She revealed that she had come from "the ghetto" and how she and her sisters had to run for cover when gun shots broke out. She wanted to own a home in a safe neighborhood. She closed with the thought that the grass may not be greener on the other side of the fence, but she was determined to get to the other side and find out for herself. Her eyes began to tear, and as she sat down crying, the room exploded in applause. We were witness to her breakthrough.

Unlocking the secret of one's personal life and connecting with others is the key to powerful communication.

OPEN MINDS OPEN DOORS

Imagination, the key to opportunity
Volume I, # 2, April, 2002

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