 and no we're not reviewing my book but it it does play into this a little bit we'll get into that in a minute but for those of you who don't know I did write a book this is it it is a journaling workbook and it is a book that I hope helps you figure out if you want to have more creativity in your life and if you do how you can go about doing that at least indirectly the whole book is filled with narratives on one side and a workspace on the other side in which I usually ask you one or two questions and there's space for you to actually work on those questions on that page now this is the copy that you can buy for me in my Etsy shop it's signed you can also get my book on Amazon and you can literally just if you go to the Amazon search engine type my name Gina Bronzini Erin's it should come up if you also type creativity and self-expression that the book should still come up it's available on your Kindle it's all of also available in paperback I do recommend if you are gonna work in the book when you get your paperback copy take it over to your local art supply art supply office supply store like Staples or Office Depot have them chop the spine off and have them put a spiral binding on it because then you'll be able to open it flat and work on your pages nicely okay that being said once you've worked your way through my book and you figured out that yes you do indeed want creativity in your life and you want to make it part of your regular routine and your regular life and I hope that my book helps you get to that point and figure that out and hopefully helps get you down the road and figuring out how you can do that but once you read my book and you work through my book I found a book that you should follow it up with I love this book it is by Twila Tharp she is a dancer and a choreographer and it's called the creative habit learn it and use it for life it is a fabulous book it's so fabulous I was taking notes last night that's how you know it's a great book and I'm having issues of course with my asthma this morning so sorry right in I want to say the first was it the first page the first section definitely forget where I wrote it down from but it was here in the first part somewhere here it was on page 10 so you're not too far in the book and on page 10 she hits you right between the eyeballs and it says everything is raw material everything is relevant everything is usable everything feeds into my creativity isn't that a true enough statement if you're a true creative though every one of those statements should resonate with you oh my god they definitely did with me the whole book is filled with things like that a little farther in the book here's another quote from it it says she talks about periods with no distractions to creativity there's a whole section on distractions and I was reading the I was reading this section and I am let's see I don't know what section it was now because I just wrote that I just made notes I told you guys I already that anyway I wrote this down and I was just making notes because I read I've read a number of books I have anxiety disorder in case those of you don't know that I have anxiety disorder and I've read a number of books on eggs on anxiety disorder and also my therapist have they all recommend the same thing that you should try to it's helpful to your anxiety to just unplug just disassociate unplug turn the devices off turn the music off turn the TV off and just just yeah silence things silencing the physical noise around you helps silence the noise and anxiety in your head she talks about how that's true with creativity also to just silence the distractions some people work well with just distractions but a lot of us don't and just silencing them that's okay to do creating intentional periods where there's no distractions maybe if you can't even just taking a week and she talks about just going somewhere where there's you know no electronic devices and no music and no telephones and no nothing and just that sounds I like that idea it sounds good to me I don't well the no telephone I would like to just like put it away in case of emergency but not have ready access to it that would be handy but yeah as long as everybody's safe I like the idea a lot here's another one what is the one tool that feeds your creativity and is so essential that without it you feel make it an unprepared isn't that a great question I wasn't sure how to answer that she also has a creative auto auto blah blah blah creative autobiography questionnaire in here that's interesting to fill out and she also fills it out later on in the book and here and she shares with you her answers so that's an interesting thing to work through before you can think out of the box you have to start with a box isn't that the truth I'm always telling people who private message me you know how do I get better at drawing faces or doing this or doing that there's no shortcut you have to just practice and and she's right before you can think outside the box you have to work inside the box and you have to have a box so oh my gosh the whole book was like that for me I have a couple more here there's planning and over planning you never want the planning to inhibit the natural evolution of your work this is also something I've talked about many many times in regards to teaching I don't mind having a loose guide for say in my in the my year program this book review is for the my year 2017 program we'll talk about that in a minute we try to give loose guidelines to the teachers but I definitely don't want to be too specific because I really want to encourage them to go with their natural creative flow wherever that may lead them I tend to work best organically I don't mind having a rough direction and frequently I have a rough idea or a rough direction but I don't plan it out too much because if I plan it out too much then I just stifles my creativity she actually talks about that in this book I was I just the whole book I had bells going off in my head ding ding ding ding there's a whole chapter in the back page 136 I marked the page number now because there was just too much to make notes about page 136 how to be lucky be generous don't use that word lightly generosity is luck going in the opposite direction away from you if you're generous to someone if you do something to help him out you are in effect making him lucky this is important it's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune she goes on like that for almost two whole pages if you do nothing else pick up this book borrow it from the library read that chapter oh my gosh I can't recommend this enough like I said earlier this book review is for the my year 2017 Facebook group and this is for the month of September I should have said that right at the beginning of the video but was so excited about the book if you're not part of that group and you want to see what other books review reviewed you can join the link is in the video in video description down below along with a link to a page that has all of my internet links on it social media links website links store links everything you can click on the one and get them all my happy mail address is down there and all that stuff so please go to the video description I look up this book by twilight tharp if you're on a limited budget go to your library I bet they have it if your library is like mine they probably have a website connected to all your local libraries and if they don't have it you're the one closest to your house they can get it from another library and then when it comes to your local one hold it for you mine does that all the time anyway I do recommend the book it's a fabulous book and I am definitely going to be adding it to my permanent library I can't even tell you and I'll probably be reading it again I did download it on my Kindle because I can guarantee you it's going to be one of those things that when I'm feeling down and out about the art and down and out about why I'm doing this as a creative hobby as a business what am I doing I made the wrong decision this is going to be a book that I'm going to go back to to refresh my creative soul and reaffirm why I'm doing what I'm doing it is a really good follow-up to the book I wrote these two books work very well together if you have this one you've liked this one you're going to love this one and if you have this one and love this one you should think about getting my book I mean you know help a starving artist out anyway I can't say enough good things about this book so I will be adding it to my book list in my journal this month that's it for today check out the video description like I mentioned don't forget to give this video a like please share and subscribe if you're not already a subscriber and that's it the most important thing is to go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye 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