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Creating Time: Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life is finally making its lil’ way into the world! Over 2,700 people have been participating in The Creating Time Mega Event these past couple of weeks, and the book’s official launch day is this Tuesday, April 17 .
You get an awe-inspiring bundle of great time-expanding bonuses, by ordering from any online bookseller any time next week and if you order specifically on Tuesday, April 17 , you’ll also get over $125 worth of Artella merchandise! Isn’t it time for a new kind of time? We’ve set up an email reminder that gets sent to you on Tuesday, to remind you to order on Blast Off Bonus day - - you can click here to sign up the "Creating Time Tidbits" and get a lil' reminder on April 17th so you can receive the Artella One-Day-Only bonuses!
When I did a survey of people about their experiences with time for the book, the results revealed that 90 percent felt “somewhat anxious” to “significantly anxious” about time. What’s even more startling is that these results don’t even seem all that surprising. Stress and worry about time is very much a part of most of our lives. Our modern society makes it acceptable and even expected that we fall into patterns of being worried and stressed about time. While worrying about time seems to be part of our humanity, does it really need to be?
It’s helpful to dig deeply to figure out what is at the root of our problems with time. Why do we overschedule ourselves and allow ourselves to constantly be so busy? Why does it seem so “normal” to worry about time so much? Most importantly, what is the payoff for concerning ourselves so much about time?
Here are some examples of payoffs that people might receive from worrying or complaining about time:
- Time is a good catchall: if I can complain about being busy, then I don’t have to look at other areas in my life.
- My schedule is wrapped up with my self-esteem. Being “too busy” means that I’m doing something right.
- Worrying about time gives me something to talk about with other people.
- Worrying about time is a convenient excuse for not following my dreams.
Once we can identify the payoffs that we get from worrying about time, we can see them for what they are: illusions that keep us from living our true potential. Simply being aware of what we are getting from our time worries allows us to make a different choice: a choice to partner with time, instead of working against it.
We know that time is relative. Einstein laid it all out for us over a hundred years ago, and you prove it every time you compare an hour you spend in the dentist’s chair to an hour you spend with a loved one! Time is totally different in these two extremely different situations because of several variables at play, such as emotion, engagement, flow, desire, interest, pain, and pleasure. With so many variables dancing around in every single moment of our lives, we know that time is never constant. Since time is relative, we can use this to our advantage, and choose what our relationship with time will be. Every time we decide how we choose to talk about, measure, and experience time, we are creating a new era of time for ourselves and those we touch.
I invite you to change time anxiety to time artistry. Let’s finally drop all the archaic view and limitations of time that have held us back from fully embracing the wild beautiful truth: time is not a defined line; it is instead a vibrant, completely moldable, layered, multi-faceted work of art that is in our hands to create and design, each and every day.
For those short on time, to simplify this week's Artellagram, here are some "quick links" to the highlights in this edition. You can simply follow the links that you're interested in and go directly to that section.
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1. Join in The Creating Time Mega Event! For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been running The Creating Time Mega Event....three FREE weeks of inspiration as people all over the world will come together and welcome the ending of time as we know it...and the beginning of an exhilarating new life! There’s still plenty of time to jump in and enjoy the free inspiration we’re sharing this week, as our 25 amazing luminaries invite us to "time travel" as a collective community to create a new paradigm of time.
To join us for the final free week of live teleclasses, daily email inspiration, dynamic time-shifting games and challenges, a lively interactive community of fellow time-travelers, and so much more, you can learn more and sign up here!
 2. NEW! Creating Time Book Tour! I’m looking forward to meeting many of you at the workshops and appearances at the live events I will be at during the Creating Time tour in our destination cities, which the next few months include Dallas, San Francisco, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, the Poconos, PA, Portland and Houston. A week from today, I’ll be taking Creating Time to the San Francisco Bay area for multiple events over the course of 10 days. In fact, if you will be in the Bay area the weekend of April 27 and would like to help out at the cool Artella booth at the New Living Expo, let me know! We can get you an all access pass to the event and some Artella goodies just for helping out! And if you’ll be at any of the events in the destinations, be sure to introduce yourself to me!
We also invite you to watch the short book trailer video and "like" our new Facebook community for ongoing creative prompts and games related to "Creating Time"! Come join in the countdown to the end of time as we know it...
3. One more spot left in the Creative Kairos Immersion Retreat! We’ve got one spot left in our amazing Creative Kairos Immersion Retreat in Pennsylvania’s Poconos Mountains next month. For more information about this weekend in extraordinary time and space, visit here!
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Interested in Becoming Part of Artella's Team? We are expanding our team for all the exciting things we're working on in early and mid-2012, so if you've ever been interested in becoming part of the Artella Team, now is the time! Check out this page for details.
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 It is helpful to personify the entity of time and realize that we can build trust in time, just as we build trust in people: through an ongoing relationship sustained by exploration, awareness, dialogue, and evidence. To facilitate a deeper trust in time, this ARTsignment invites you to create a Time Guide to help cultivate a relationship with time in a personified form. Your Time Guide is an imaginary persona that you create; a benevolent figure who supports you fully and gives you exactly what you need in the area of time. The more deeply you get to know this new trusty guide, the more you’ll find yourself trusting and working with time.
Step 1: Take some time to answer the following journal questions. I encourage you to write your answers down rather than just thinking about them. The act of writing opens up new portals for discovery and pushes you to be more honest with yourself.
Some of the questions may be more applicable to you than others, but I invite you to consider all the questions, even if you think they may not be relevant at first. Feel free to not only write your answers to the questions but write about the feelings you are experiencing, as well.
1. What do you find yourself saying or thinking over and over, about time? (If you’re not sure, ask a friend or loved one if there is a recurring theme in what you say about time.)
2. How might your life be different if you did not complain or worry about time?
3. Imagine that you could snap your fingers and all your time anxieties would be gone. Who are you now? What is your first thought and feeling about this prospect?
4. What have you discovered about the roles that worry and anxiety about time play in your life?
Step 2: Close your eyes and allow yourself to relax. Imagine that you could have a Time Guide who would suddenly come to life before you and remain at your side whenever you needed her. What do you need most from this Guide? What kind of guidance, support, advice, or encouragement do you most need, regarding the subject of time?
Step 3: Begin creating a physical form for your Time Guide, using any media or materials you like. As you work, think about your strongest, most powerful wishes and dreams, and allow that positive energy to become infused in every part of the Time Guide’s being. Bring more and more life to your Time Guide as you flesh out the details of her personality. Does she have a name? Has she always been a Time Guide? What was she doing before she appeared in your life?
Step 4: As you work, allow your Time Guide to “speak” to you. What does she want you to know about time? What words of wisdom does she whisper? Let your Time Guide know you are listening and see what messages are being shared!
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In this new Artellagram feature, we’ll feature something special in the Artella Land Storefront that matches your specific interests. Since there’s always so much to see in Artella Land, you may have missed some of our special gems! This new section introduces you to a specific item that you might like to take a look at, based on your personal interests and preferences, along with a special 3 day only coupon code, only for readers of Artellagram, for 35% off what the featured item currently sells for on the Artella site!
The Storefront Spotlight for this issue is...
Booklarks:
200 Themes and Dreams for Art Journals
With this eBook, "art journal's block" is forever gone! This 36-paged eBook, written by Artella Founder Marney K. Makridakis, includes a list of 200 unique themes for you to use in art journals. Includes 70 gorgeous photographs of a variety of art journal spreads, links to online resources, and oodles of inspiration and brainstorming ideas. For beginners and seasoned artists alike, this eBook is the perfect way to re-wet your imagination's palette, over and over again.
Get 35%off this featured item by using the 3 day only coupon code when you check out: spotlight414-BL when you check out.
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Artella's Member Ship Creativity Cruise is an ongoing adventure of information and inspiration, all hand-selected to be about your favorite creative topics. Each and every month, you get a huge overflowing gift basket of inspiring goodies in your Cruise Cabin. You can read about all the different Cruise Cabins here.
I’m excited to share that this has been a very special month for our Luxury Cruise Cabin members. All of the current goodies – including e-magazines, kits, art tutorials, journal page packs, audio interviews, booklets, workbooks, yes everything – are all related to the intriguing theme of Time, as we celebrate with Artella Members the release of Creating Time!
Best news of all: if you join one of the Artella Member Ship Cabins right now, you'll still get the full lineup of March’s time-themed goodies, and the new April goodies when they come out next week! It's a really cool way to take advantage of the ”timing” and get double your goodies. :-)
 For example, right now in our Art Journaling Cabin you can flip the 65 inspiring pages (they really flip, in cool Flash format) in this month’s special edition of The Art Journal Journey e-magazine, all about the theme of time and how it relates to creating art and living an artful life, and you’ll also get lots of other goodies, like a collection of time-themed art journal pages, and an amazing “PicturePrompt” workbook, all about journaling your thoughts about time. Over in the Blissness Cabin, the Blissness Splash e-magazine is full of tips for balancing work and life, and embracing a sense of the spiritual in all we do. You’ll also get a recording of Paula Swenson interviewing me about my behind-the-scenes process for writing and publishing Creating Time, and get lots of other kits, booklets, audios, and more.
Go here to learn more and come aboard the Artella Member Ship!
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 For today's "In the Studio" Interview, I'm delighted to present Merrill Disney, an ARTbundance Coach who is also a comedy concept writer and is currently writing, directing and producing “Will that Fit in my Mouth” an animated short about emotional eating. Merrill truly embraces each moment and is a wonderful example of someone who fills her personal and professional time with great meaning.
Artella: What led you to become a Certified ARTbundance Coach?
Merrill: I was initially mesmerized with the ArtellaLand website; hence, it transported me on a yacht with my own imagination. I knew Marney had a special message to offer. Originally, I wanted to swim around with some new ways of relating to my comedy clients but ended up with an added bonus of flavorful tools to help with my volunteer work with teens that suffer from eating disorders. Seems I am always looking for revolutionary ideas to relate to the world and art always opens the channels.
Artella: How has your ARTbundance training influenced your work?
Merrill: I have a larger repertoire with communicating with clients and helping them move through blocks so the material can flow. With my work with teens with eating disorders, ARTbundance helps them to check in with how they are feeling--going inward instead of controlling their outer environment.
You can read the rest of Merrill's interview, here
 The ARTbundance Certification Training (ACT) is now in session. The next session will be scheduled later this year. You can learn more about ACT and request an application when the next session is announced, here
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 For today’s Quotz crystal, I selected a quote from Creating Time that seemed to resonate when I shared it during The Creating Time Mega Event class #2 this week. It is, simply:
~It’s your time,
 Marney
Artella Founder, Mango Lover, Hula Dancer
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