Freedom..15 minute Inspired Action..

Hey Inspired Souls!

In honor of 4th of July, lets look at our own freedoms and where we each feel grateful for freedom and independence, to celebrate those things in some way!

You could…

-list what freedoms you are grateful to have, ones that we so often take for granted as we are used to those freedoms.

-Dance, in public or in  private and remember how blessed you are to have the freedom to do that , to let the fact that you can listen to what you want to and move the way you want to be celebrated!

Those are just a few ideas, how will you express freedom today?

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Slow Down… 15 min Inspired Action!

Hey Creative Souls..

I know it seems like a contradiction to have an action be to slow down! The thing is I often get antsy if I am not “being productive” even if in reality it’s just purely busy work I am engaging in. Sometimes we need to just slow down, eat the food and do nothing else, take in the small moments surrounding us, not be in such a hurry to get to who knows what.. Even if this is just for 15 minutes, I really encourage you to just slow down and take a deep breath..

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Helping Japan.. 15 minute Inspired Action

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.  ~Sydney Smith

Hey Inspiring Souls..

With the major disasters we have been seeing or hearing about in Japan, it’s easy to feel either hopeless or disconnected from it since it’s so far away from here. In order to not feel either of those, and to remember even the smallest actions can make a difference I am posting a few different ways to help those affected by the devastation of the 8.9 Earthquake and the Tsunami.

Donate to The Red Cross, even $10 can help

A list from Yahoo of ways to help here

From a wonderful soul, a guided meditation on holding compassion and love.

Those are just a few ideas of ways to help, if you believe in prayer, pray for comfort,strength and peace. Send out those vibes if you are not comfortable praying, do what feels right to you, but do not mistake that what you are doing is too small..

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Ordinary? -15 min Inspired Action/Creative Prompt

Hey Creative Souls!

Last few weeks I was sort of un-inspired too distracted to take pictures no big reason really just one of those little zones we get into. After reading “A Year of Mornings” book ( that my wonderful little Mom got me for Christmas!) I was inspired to start looking at things differently again. The result is the image above! Embracing all of my photo nerdiness and loving it!

15 minute Inspired Action/Creative prompt: Look around your environment right now, what can you look at differently? What “ordinary” object, moment, shape can you see and photograph differently? Maybe it means getting up really close to something, standing above something, manipulating the shape of something ( like I did with the spaghetti noodle) Using an app on your phone to get a different effect then normal.  My challenge to you is to look for something inspiring in something seemingly “ordinary”.

I would LOVE if you wanted to share with me what you create for this one! You can share it here on this flickr group

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Shed/Maintain- 15 Minute Inspired Action

Hey Empowered Souls!

It’s easy for a lot of us to feel on overwhelm or to put things off that if we just “tackled” it 15 minutes at a time would help us maintain or shed some unwanted clutter.

I think there are at least some things and some areas we can conquer 15 minutes at a time!

So that is this weeks 15 minute Inspired Action! Select one area to start sifting through the stuff to shed or to maintain, just to keep it under control.  I will give you a few examples, but give yourself a minute to look around your surroundings and see what you feel you can tackle 15 minutes at a time!

-The pile of paper on your desk, kitchen counter.. wherever, file what needs to be filed and get rid of papers that you no longer need in that pile.

-Shed some old emails in your inbox

-Clean out your bag, wallet or planner.

-pick any virtual or “real” area and just start on a section, don’t let the entire thing overwhelm you. Just pick one small area, set a timer and do what you can.

Here is to Living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Show some love to yourself-15 min Inspired Action

Hey Wonderful Souls!

In honor of Valentines day today I want you to show yourself some love, in the form of self-care (though this is for any day and everyday really!)

Self care is very important, we are often the last people on our lists to really nurture and take care of.  In order to have the energy mental, spiritual and physical you must take care of yourself.   Now that you filling up your well a bit you will have more to give to others on the day of love! It’s the opposite of selfish.

Here are some ideas for taking just ( or at the least!) 15 minutes of self-care

-Put on a face-mask for your skin type

-Slather on lotion

-Do something creative, like a fast collage or spread paint in your journal

-Slow down, check in with your body, hear any message?

-Close your eyes, flow with your breath ( notice it, is it hurried, strained.. )

-Thank your body, your life for all it gives you that you never give a second thought ( breathe, movement and so on)

Those are just some ideas, I know there are a lot more that fit into that tiny but important 15 minute window! ( and beyond of course!)

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Learn something new.. 15 Minute Inspired Action

Hey Creative Souls!

I have a love of learning and there are so many great tools out there and great stuff that it can be overwhelming..

One place I like to go to is Youtube there are several others out there, but I can not say much about them as I have not checked them out.. yet!

Here are some fun things to learn , share your links with me too!

- Make a Junque Journal:   (my sister and I made these, love them and really easy to do)

-Learn to make Hand Rolled Sushi and make  Sushi rice

-Make a zentangle inspired doodle ( this lady is too funy and does a good job showing you how to start it out)

Other ideas, learn a word or two in a different language, a new yoga pose the list goes on and on and on there are tons of DIY sites and tutorials out there great sites with videos.

Speaking of learning.. Do you want to learn how to create more inspiration, and an empowered mindset in your life? Check out my online workshop, http://www.creatingmywaytome.com

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Connect – 15 Minute Inspired Action….

Hey Inspiring Souls!

This weeks 15 min inspired action is to connect with a friend or anyone you have been wanting to connect with. It could be a friend,family member,  blogger or anyone else that comes to  mind. Call, make a comment, write an email, write a letter ( you know an actual letter or card, or even a postcard!)

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

Clean up digital photo’s -15 min action

Hey Inspiring Souls! I mentioned  to make a list of 15 min action challenges this last week in this post This week my challenge is to take 15 minutes and work on organizing you digital photos. I take a decent amount of pictures and they all go into one central place. But to make it easier when I am doing a blog post, creating a photo book or whatever  having the images sorted into some sort of folder system in my photo program (iPhoto for me) It makes things faster and cleaner.

So lets set our timers for 15 minutes and get as many sorted as we can. In that process if you see some that are just there but you don’t love, go ahead and give yourself permission to delete them. I know for me this sorting could take days, but instead of taking no action I would rather take at least a small action and enough of those will build up into an organized system!

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather

PS: Every week I plan on putting out there a 15 min action challenge, I will always have just done it or be doing it along with you, always! Also I should mention that I was reminded by my Dad that you can take that 15 minutes and meditate, good reminder!

15 minute Inspired Action Challenge

Hey Empowered Souls! I am starting a new category this year.. 15 minute Inspired Actions. With so many things we want to do, it’s hard to find the time for it. We often get caught up in the overwhelm of it all. When you really think about it though, there are so many actions we can do in 15 minutes or less. It’s been a really helpful thing for me, when I actually do it. So I am going to put out challenges to myself and to you all, sometimes it will be it’s own post, sometimes a bit of an add on for another, I am going to play around with it and see what works!

So your first 15 min action challenge is to make a list of some of the 15 min Inspired Actions you can do! Set a timer for 15 minutes and just let it flow out.

Here are some of mine:

-Start ( or at times finish) a visual journal page, paint or color a back ground, start a collage

-Take as much clutter as you can with including putting it away off of your__ ( desk, dresser, kitchen counter etc.. )

-Read for just 15 minutes

-Start or complete a blog post

-take a 15 minute photo hunt in your surroundings

-Cuddle!

They can be applied to all sorts of areas of our lives..  Next week I will put out a different challenge, I plan on posting a new one weekly.

Here is to living Inspired, Creative and Empowered

Heather