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Livin the Creative Dream - Stop your whining

Allison Constantino

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June 12th, 2015 - 10:37 AM

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Livin the Creative Dream - Stop your whining

Livin the Creative Dream always comes with a caveat - things don't always go the way you think they should go! You wake up, have your day planned out, then wham! Something comes up and completely throws a monkey wrench into the middle of your plan! Some of the responses I hear when things go wrong are so whiny! "I can't do that anymore now that this happened!" "I almost completed my masterpiece when "x" happened!" So what? Everyday something else is thrown in our path and we only have our choices to get us out! I've noticed how our first gut reaction is to shut down and return to the fetal position. However, even if you do that, at some point you'll have to rejoin the living and you'll still be faced with the same dilemma! So, might as well make the "right" choice as soon as "x" happens and be on your merry way with as little down time as possible! So, what is the "right" choice in these circumstances? Choose to take action and do what you CAN do! Look around you! Okay, so you can't, for whatever reason, do what you wanted to do, but what else Can you do? Focusing all your energy on what you CAN do instead of what you CAN"T do is completely empowering! Number one, you stop whining and start doing something. As soon as you move your energy from static to active a funny thing happens. One action begets another action and suddenly you're on your way in another direction! Crisis averted! The real challenge is to actually have the mindfulness to notice that when things go south, you're going there, too! You have to be aware you're suddenly going down a dark road. You've got to put the brakes on, turn the car around and head off in a new direction. Yes, I know, easier said than done, but really there are no excuses. At the end of your whiny respite, you still have the same situation right in front of you! So, my advice is admit that things didn't go like you think they should have, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and head off in another direction! Living in Florida I love the ocean! I love fish, coral and anything ocean related! My latest work, "Moorish Idol and Coral" is a tribute to the ocean! Did you know that 60% of our coral reefs are expected to be dead and gone in the next 30 years? I was stunned to hear this prediction! This can't possibly be true! It gets worse! Our coral reefs support approximately 25% of all marine animals! I wanted to paint one of the oceans most beautiful (and social) fish swimming among the beautiful coral. On my visits to Tahiti, Bora-Bora, Raiatea, Moorea and other places in the South Pacific, you can snorkel around so many of these islands and see such amazing coral reefs and brightly colored fish I would love to think that future generations will have that same privilege. June 8th was World Oceans Day (#worldoceansday) and if you would like to support the coral reef initiative go to The Ocean Foundation (oceanfdn.org) and see what you CAN do!

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