George Bernard Shaw once said: Life isn’t about finding yourself – Life is about Creating yourself!

On this week’s podcast, Leah and Jen discuss how to live your life as an artist. What does this mean?  Well, think about it this way: To begin a painting, a painter requires a blank canvas, an assortment of brushes, and a vibrant paint palette.  An artist uses these same tools; however, he combines these materials with passion, purpose, and inspiration to create a true masterpiece! The same is true in our lives. Everyday we have the choice to accept being a painter or we can choose to be an artists and design our lives – our masterpieces – and live proactively, with passion and purpose!

When we make the shift from living our lives as a painter to that of an artist, we begin by realizing that we do have control over our lives. We shift to being proactive in our lives instead of living in a constant state of reacting.  In order to get to this, we must first SLOW DOWN and really focus on what we want in life.

One way to do this is to think about the 5 key areas of our lives (our balanced palate) and paint a picture of what we want in each area. Those areas include:

Relationships, Health & Emotion, Physical Environment, Financial, and Spirituality.

Once you have a vision in place for each of these key areas, then it is time to create an action plan and work it. For example, if in your health and emotion area you want to become more fit, eat healthier, and exercise more…..then you need to create the action steps to do that. When we live as artists, we know we are in control. We don’t wait for some catastrophe to happen in a specifc area before we pay attention to that area. We determine what we want and then we make it happen…..we *bridge the gap* between where we currently are and where we want to be. That is what living your life as an artist is all about! It’s about creating and unveling the masterpiece that is YOU!

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