Posted by: micheleberger on: September 4, 2012
At every creativity workshop I have ever taught, I always get the question: How do I find time to do more of what I love? The metaphors about time that I encounter working with clients often include the language of battle, scarcity, worry, challenge and management. I think that?s true for most of us. Think about it. When?s the last time you heard someone say, ?I?ve got all the time I need for x?? or, ?I?m not crazy busy anymore. Time feels like molasses.? or, ?Time?my little bundle of joy!? The fact that people struggle with time is not news. What is news is that author Marney Makridakis in her pioneering ?book, Creating Time: Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life shows us that it is possible and even fun to learn how to shift, visualize, command, tickle, seduce, and measure time in completely new and revolutionary ways.
I am head-over-heels in love with this book and declare Marney, a genius. Marney is a well-known artist, entrepreneur, coach and founder of ArtellaLand.com, the ground-breaking online community for artists, writers, and creative individuals. She also promotes the ARTbundance philosophy, an innovative approach to self-improvement through creativity.
Her deep wisdom as a successful coach, artist and student of time is evident in this book. Creating Time is beautifully written, edited and incorporates insights and original art from a variety of folk, including professional artists but also many people from Marnie?s creative community. You?ll find how to ?stretch and shrink? time from creative guru Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy (aka SARK), view original artwork by entrepreneur Leonie Dawson and artist Brian Andreas.
Marney taps into the mundane and magical aspects of our psychological (nonlinear) and temporal (linear) experience of time. She advocates that we need an expansive view of time and that time is a ?valuable resource far more infinite than we tend to think it is.? Her constant reminder to us is how to become better aware of the states in which we perceive time, so we?re less aware of the limiting factors of time ?but more aware of the present moment.? She helps us discover ?more tools to support this blissful state.?
In the first section, you begin by exploring your relationship to both linear and nonlinear forms of time. Once you?ve done some excavation work assessing your needs and desires that are time related, the next section introduces and helps you tap into unique methods for creating time through creativity. You go deep in these chapters as Marney presents a specific concept and interweaves anecdotes, personal stories, literary and pop culture references, and scientific theory (everyone gets a refresher course on the theory of relativity!). After reading chapters in this section that include, ?Creating Time Though Stillness?, ?Creating Time Through Metaphor?, and ?Creating Time through Synchronicity?, you will not doubt that we can indeed create time outside of our usual and often narrow frame and ?welcome a new way to experience time.? Each chapter concludes with an engaging ARTsignment, an art project that is designed to activate and expand self-awareness and transformation. You don?t have to possess any particular set of artistic skills to dive right in get started. In this book you learn by doing and will be inspired to try your hand at the ARTsignments as you see many examples of others? interpretations.
The third section integrates all of the time concepts you?ve learned over the course of the book and offers diagnostic tips about what techniques might be best to apply right away. She provides a list of quotes that form a nice short hand for charting one?s self talk (i.e. like ?I?m always worried about the past or the future, and I find it hard it hard to live in the moment.? or ?I don?t have a realistic sense of time. I?m always procrastinating and am never sure of how long things take.?), and what techniques to try right away.
Creating Time stands alone as a book that seamlessly and deliciously combines creativity with science and offers adventure after adventure to completely expand our sense of time. If your relationship with time is tired, played out, frustrating, confusing and one that always seems to be defined by scarcity and lack, order this book today. It?s definitely time for a change!
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