McMeekin's 12 Secrets > Third Gateway: Actualizing Creative Results

A Self-Coaching Journey through Gail McMeekin's

The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: a Portable Mentor

By Chris Dunmire

continued from Second Gateway

Third Gateway: Actualizing Creative Results: The Power of Positive Priorities

Chapter 10 Questions for Reflection:

1. What does abundance mean for you in your life? What Positive Priorities would support that vision?
   
   
2. Do you notice how stress affects your creative life? Are you tuned into the ‘stress factors’ of your life?
   
   
3. On “caring for your body and mind,” do you give attention to your own health and well-being? Is attention to self-care important to you?
   
   
4. Can you identify and list your personal Positive Priorities?

Chapter 11 Questions for Reflection:

1. Gauge your burnout warning signs. Are you experiencing burnout right now? Have you in the past? How do you remedy this?
   
   
2. In assessing your relationship to the creative process, do you find yourself having “piles of unfinished creative projects” sitting on your desk to do? After reading this chapter, will you take a new approach to seeing them through to completion or weeding them out?
   
   
3. In understanding your creative style, have you noted any of the author’s list items to be a problem for you in your creative work? If yes, which ones? Can you name your personal “Serenity Stealers?” How do you cope with the unavoidable ones?
   
   
4. Do you agree that “sometimes a negative choice serves a purpose”? Can you name the underlying meaning to some of your negative choices?

Chapter 12 Questions for Reflection:

1. What is your personal creativity creed? How would you answer the author’s five questions?
   
   
2. On Setting Creative Goals, try using the author’s seven elements to guide your clients to “statements of intentions” that are specific, measurable, realistic, written down, time-limited, positive, and action-oriented.
   
   
3. Try McMeekin's Daily Planning Tool as recommended for a month. How effective was it for you?
   
   
4. Do you agree that “Procrastination is often indecision”? Do you find the Procrastination worksheet a good exercise to work through this indecision? What other reasons would you offer for procrastination?

© 2007 Chris Dunmire, CoachingYourCreativity.com. All rights reserved. (5/8/07)

About the Author
Chris Dunmire is the founder of the award-winning Creativity Portal® Web site and is a Master-in-training Kaizen-Muse™ Creativity Coach who supports clients through overwhelm, procrastination, perfectionism, and other blocks to their creativity AND celebrates the joyful, expressive parts of being . . . an imaginary being! Connect with Chris to experience how creativity coaching can enrich your life.