Martha Treats Newsletter

Martha Treats, sent once a month by email, gives you an inspiring learning nugget around completion
and includes an invitation to take action around that learning in your life.
​
Subscribe for Free Now

Just published:  Martha Treat January 2023
​

Keeping Our Creative Spirit Alive and Moving

We have all had those experiences when suddenly the inner knowing part of us takes over and we are spontaneously moving in a completely different direction. My recent experience took place at the beginning of my weekly writing session with a friend. I mentioned wanting more spaciousness in my office to create a wall for painting and a space for drawing, and in popped the vision of how to do it.

So instead of two hours of writing, I started moving furniture, and then a new home for consulting supplies became clear and there was room to bring in my art supplies. In a very short time, I had that blank wall for painting! The experience was magical and the expansion ridiculously energizing.

My creative artist friend from the east coast happened to call and once again, spontaneously I was gathering my watercolors and she was directing me how to mix them and how to work on the wall surface. I painted with a very large calligraphy brush. Doing this has been a vision of mine for some time. As she often does, my wise friend moved to the spirit of the occasion even though that was not likely why she had called.

Later the same day I did my annual signing of a fresh copy of my client tool, Taking Action to Completion Next Steps. Clients choose to sign it or not, to support their continued commitment to completing. I sign one each January to keep me in my integrity. This year I noticed this line: “I take full responsibility for creating space and time for creative work:” Given my experience that day it now reads:

• Asking and listening for my highest creative expression in this moment.

To me that is the true next action to keeping our creative Spirits alive and flowing. And if I listen and hear to do x when I thought or planned to do y, I would be wise to follow that wisdom.

Action does not have to be linear or scheduled. Inner listening for direction gives us access to a greater flow than what our minds might choose out of habitual practices. Taking a moment and inviting ourselves to listen to what is most aligned for us to complete in this moment can invite spontaneity that keeps the joy of doing alive.

We each deserve the blessing of aligned spontaneity each moment.

Martha Invitations
1.  Listen before rushing in to do and see if there is a higher action to complete..
2.  Choose the inner knowing direction before sliding back to more comfortable behavior.
3.  Do everything you can to keep your joy alive in the doing.

Martha
​
Share this Treat

Read Previous Treats:

2022

Treat #245  Beyond Reaction into Forward Moving Action
Treat #244  A Blank Slate
Treat #243  Relaxing the Push Flowing with Everyone's Perfect Timing
Treat #242  Arbitrary Cutoffs
Treat #241  Incomplete. Not done. Unfinished
Treat #240  On Purpose Doing
Treat #239  Watching Awake
​Treat #238  The Joy of Doing
Treat #237  Completing Up to the Moment
Treat #236  Fully Receiving Through Completing
Treat #235  Time for a Radical Step?   
Treat #234  Being on the Empathy Track  

2021

2020

Treat #233  Letting Go into Freedom
Treat #232  A Lighter Touch
Treat #231  How are you Effort-ing?
Treat #230  Experience Is The Freedom
Treat #229  Things Are Rarely as They Appear
Treat #228  The Impossible To-Do List
Treat #227  Doing from Listening
Treat #226  The Act of Looking
Treat #225  Listening to this Moment's Action
Treat #224  The Last Piece
Treat #223  Acknowledging with Gratitude
Treat #222  Up to Date

Treat #221 Choosing to Cooperate with What Is
​Treat #220 It Takes as Long as it Takes
Treat #219 Availability to Perfect Timing
Treat #218 Engaging Yourself into Action
Treat #217 Go for the Truth in You
​Treat #216 Switching Gears Freedom
Treat #215 Seeing What We are Looking At
Treat #214 Clarity of Focus
Treat #213 Appreciating/Acknowledging Begins Within
Treat #212 How can I Assist - The True Next Action
Treat #211 Use It or Lose It
Treat #210 Finishings Along the Way

​

2019

2018

Treat #209  A New Beginning
Treat #208  All Designed For Us
Treat #207  Reverence and Joy for Doing
Treat #206  Choosing vs Auto Pilot
Treat #205  Defaulting to the One-Track Focus
Treat #204  Elegant and On Purpose
Treat #203  The Fullness in Minimal
Treat #202  The Real Culprit of Focus Drain  
​Treat #201  Resting in Action
Treat #200  Loving the Empty Spaces
Treat #199  Putting Together All The Pieces
Treat #198  Are you at the Top of your To Do List?  

​

Treat #197  The Tiny Finishings
Treat #196  Emergency,Crisis,Fire
Treat #195  Mastership
Treat #194  It Works Every Time
Treat #193  Let the Stuffing Be Gone
Treat #192  Whole Focus
Treat #191  The One Thing Not to Complete
Treat #190  Just Keep It Flowing
Treat #189  In Between Time
​Treat #188  What is Stealing Your Energy? 
​Treat #187  To Skim or Not to Skim
Treat #186  I Love January 
​

2017

Treat #185  Both Hands Please
Treat #184  I'll Remember
Treat #183  Creating New Doing Paths
Treat #182  A Habit Worth Quitting
Treat #181  Eclipse of Action
Treat #180  Forgive Me for Multitasking
Treat #179  What are You Looking At? 
Treat #178  Are you Squishing Snails?
Treat #177  Relaxing the Grip
Treat #176  All the Time in the World
Treat #175  When is Enough . . . Enough
​Treat #174  Engaging Yourself to Completion

2016

Treat #173   A Kink in the Works
Treat #172   What's Stopping You? 
Treat #171   All of Ours to Do
Treat #170   Attitude Adjustment 
Treat #169   IN Consciousness
Treat #168   Completing Past our Reactions 
Treat #167   Keep Your Dog Leash
Treat #166   The Essential Piece
Treat #165   Day is Done
Treat #164   Do-Nothing Time
Treat #163   Curbside Calm
Treat #162   Pile-Up