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Explore. Create. Grow.
WELCOME TO CREATING CONFIDENTLY
Explore. Create. Grow.
Hi! I'm Emily Newell - Aspiring author, dance teacher and Creative
HOW IT GOT STARTED
I got started on this journey wanting to explore what compelled me to create and what was holding me back from sharing my passions with the world, and I want other creatives to join in and thrive. I love reading and writing novels, music that moves me and makes me want to dance, podcasts that fuel my creativity and learning new skills. Let's make some crappy creations and rejoice in our growth as we learn and create at all levels of proficiency. I hope you'll join me on this exploratory journey and check out my instagram over @creating.confidently for a taste of what is to come!
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A Month in Review: January's Mindset
I want to start doing monthly wrap ups. I find that many people, myself in particular, are always looking forward, setting goals, running towards the next step, the next to do, the next project. And although we are usually too good at remembering our failures or faults or flaws we rarely celebrate or appreciate our big and small accomplishments that have brought us to the point of taking the next step. SO here on the blog I will be looking back and reviewing each month as it
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Adaptability v Versatility: How Creativity Expands Capacity - Part 3
Finally we come to the second concept in this comparison series: versatility. In the context of our creativity versatility speaks to using our skill or medium beyond the typical or expected activities. Creativity by definition requires us to go beyond the box. Versatility is a skill much like those practical ones we hone that is enhanced and practiced through creative pursuits. Creativity doesn’t end on the page or the canvas or the stage, it extends into our daily lives, and
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Jan 245 min read
Adaptability v Versatility: How Creativity Expands Capacity - Part 2
When I started writing this overarching post initially, I had it mapped out and concise - boy did that get away from me. And this is what I’m focusing on in this week’s post - how we adapt while we’re in the middle of a creative project. From blog posts to gallery displays, creative projects have mishaps, blocks, and opportunities crop up all the time; it’s how we face these challenges that inform our evolution as creatives and as humans. This lens of adaptability is less abo
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Jan 176 min read
Adaptability v Versatility: How Creativity Expands Capacity - Part 1
Creatives have a superpower. In fact, they have several, but I think the one that trumps all the rest is their ability to be adaptable. Masters of the pivot, the improv, the reimagine, creativity pushes us to expand what we believe we can do; it expands our capacity - for what? - for change, for learning, for leading. Creativity is a necessity in self development, it is also its own world that requires us to be adaptable to sustain our creative practice. To move forward in th
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Jan 107 min read
Love Letters and Hate Mail: A Fresh Year in Messy Life
We all fall under this delusion that a new year is a new beginning, a fresh start, a new self. A new year has never been about walking away, but rather about allowing whatever transpired in the last year, however it unfolded, to transform you for the future. We arrive at the doorstep of a new year, pass over the threshold only because of who we were, because of what happened to propel us through the door, because of all that happened, all we chose, all we are. Life, like cre
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Jan 34 min read
Making Meaning: Creative Hobby v Calling v Profession
I’ve seen some discourse recently calling for creatives to stop talking about their creative passions and pursuits as a hobby; as though...
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Sep 22, 20255 min read
The Creative's Dilemma: Ambition Overload with Motivation Depletion
This is my constant state of being. I have desire without execution; ideas without plans; ambition without motivation. Perhaps that’s why...
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Sep 3, 20256 min read
Creativity at its Core: Our Why and Our Drive
There are a plethora of auxiliary topics to be discussed surrounding creativity. As plentiful as there are creatives out there to talk...
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Aug 25, 20255 min read
Entrepreneur Spotlights: Creativity Building Community and Commerce
I am a huge promoter of creativity as hobby. I love the space we create with creativity to do something for ourselves and our own joy; to...
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Aug 18, 20258 min read
Growth Mindset: Slow Healing over Aggressive Momentum
We talk about growth on this blog quite a bit. How creativity is a vehicle to growth, how it challenges you to grow, how growth happens...
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Aug 12, 20255 min read
Creativity as Self Development: The Art of Revealing
A catalyst. Creativity is a catalyst for change, development, growth. Creativity is challenge. It is asking ourselves to delve deeper,...
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Jul 30, 20255 min read
The Multidisciplinary Creative: Creativity's Inherent Intersectionality and Integration
I’ve spoken before, or rather written, about the idea that creativity begets creativity. Typically this has been within the context of a...
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Jul 22, 20256 min read
Engaged Creativity in Real Life: How to Feel Connected When Life is Happening
This topic has been on my mind to distraction lately; not least because I’ll be struggling with this idea of staying engaged with my...
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Apr 1, 20259 min read
A Deficit in Self Awareness: Consumption Compels Creativity
How dare we say we cannot lead creative lives because they are frivolous, that we cannot devote our time to creating because it is...
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Mar 25, 20255 min read
Raising the Dangerous Generation: Fearless Creative Warriors
Staying on track regarding last week's call to action to tap into the rich resource of creativity to harness our creative power and wield...
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Mar 18, 20259 min read
Untapped Resource: Mining Creative Power
Creativity is a superpower, but most people think it ordinary because it can be accessed by so many. And yet, legions of us humans never...
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Mar 11, 20255 min read
Encouraging Creativity: Leveraging Events to Boost Creative Drive
Spring boarding off the idea that connection is necessary for creative drive, I want to open the field wider; encouraging creativity...
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Mar 4, 20253 min read
Creative Drive Derived from Connection: We are not Solitary
Many creatives feel alone in their creativity because we often create in solitary conditions. To be fair, our creativity feeds our soul,...
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Feb 25, 20252 min read
The Reflective Power of Foresight
Today is my birthday. I love birthdays - a celebration for the sake of appreciating the existence of a human on this earth in our lives...
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Feb 25, 20253 min read
Expansive Creativity: 4 C's to Enrich Your Creative Life
I 've talked about many Cs in relation to creativity over the years, but I do believe this is the first time I’ve chosen these four....
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Feb 18, 20255 min read
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