Day 23 – Write a Book the Wayne Dyer Way

Your Book Cover, an illustration by Mary Gow
Your Book Cover, an illustration by Mary Gow
If there’s anyone who motivates me AND makes sense, it’s Dr. Wayne Dyer.

He knows how to tell a story that can change your life.

“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood,” Dyer blogs about it today, December 5th, 2012.

That quote makes me smile.

If you’ve never heard of Wayne Dyer you can find out more about him by clicking here.

On Dyer’s “Wishes Fulfilled” on PBS, he talks about how he writes books.

First he comes up with the title. He says that is THE most important thing.

Second he has a cover drawn up.

Third he puts the finished cover somewhere he can look at it while writing the contents.

Fourth, he stays focused and guards his writing time, calling it “sacred time.”

Do you dream of writing a book?

If so, there’s never been more opportunities than now to share your words with the world!

Day 22 – Look Up

Looking up at the San Francisco Opera, by Mary Gow
Looking up at the San Francisco Opera, photo by Mary Gow
What do you do when you can’t make up your mind?

Do you wait for an answer?

Do you feel your way through? Or decide by weighing pros and cons?

Or do you just know?

In the book
Practical Intuition” author Laura Day offers a way to test a choice by acting as though you’re eating this decision. See how it feels as it goes through your system. Does it cause a tummy ache? Or does it feel good?

One advisor I consulted said something I never forget. When you feel like you can’t go forward, backward, or sideways, remember to look up!

Day 20 – Keep the Channel Open

Vitality, by Mary Gow
“Vitality,” watercolor by Mary Gow
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. … No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others” – Martha Graham

My art is a visual expression of energy and this Martha Graham quote reminds me we’re all artists expressing our own unique style.

There’s no one to keep up with but yourself.

Day 19 – Inspired by Hyunmee Lee

Derived from Hyunmee Lee's Work
Untitled, Derived from Hyunmee Lee’s Work
I was in Santa Fe a few years ago and saw a show of Hyunmee Lee’s work at the Nuart Gallery.

Loved her use of yellow ochre with black and white, with gestural lines.

Her work reminds me of three other abstract expressionist artists: Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, and Franz Kline.

Here I am already on day 19 of my experiment of blogging for 30 days straight, sharing my everyday paintings.

Are you enjoying this?

I am inspired by Hyunmee Lee’s work and today’s piece is derived from one of hers.

Lee was born in Korea and in 1991 got a Master of Arts in Visual Arts from the Sydney College of Arts, University of Sydney. From 1997 to 2008 she taught at various universities. She retired from teaching art in 2008 (in Utah) to concentrate full-time on exhibiting her work in galleries in the USA.

You can find our more about Lee at her website. Have you seen her work before?