Anti-aging Potions Network Update: To Begin October 2006

Next Introductory call is August 24th at 5 pacific, 6 mountain, 7 central and 8 p.m. eastern

(UPI) July 14, 2006. On Monday, July 10,2006 twenty women from all across America, selected by a sort of synchronistic lightning, were the first to be privy to a ground-breaking new society: The Nine Anti-aging Potions (and a Spot Remover). Laughter, enthusiasm, and transcendence from a mundane mediocre of mortal-muddle. Secrets to staying young through the activation of creative attitude, wit and action along with the foundation of a fun and supportive community open to quirky, intelligent, witty and creativity-loving, mid-life* women was reported by the same Muse Channeler to transcribe the upgrade of the nine Greek Muses to the nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard). Jill Badonsky finally fixed her mental cable-network and is once again channeling the Muses, holders of the keys to creative brilliance. This time the Muses have cooked up a blend of metaphorical potions to entertain and liberate willing mortals from perceived limitations of growing older or being stuck creatively. You are invited to join this community and start the habits, attitudes and practices to prepare for the notion "the best is yet to be!" This notion is potion.


Illustration above by JB: The third Anti-aging Potion: Creativity: Shared and Experienced

This revelation births a new support community called the Secret Society of Anti-agers (SSA). A membership into the network includes but is not limited to the abundant following: 1. a thorough explanation and application of monthly Anti-aging Potions; 2. a monthly teleconference with JB filled with an exchange of ideas, exercises and guided imageries to take potion notions deep; 3. a weekly Anti-aging Secret Message in a Bottle Museletter filled with tips to adopt the month's potion, fortifying quotes, art clips and soul vitamins; support, communication and the inspiration of tribe members; 4. creativity prompts, profiles; original wit; group projects such as an altered book exchange and 5. creative contributions and fund raising for groups in need; 5. guidance to create a personal visual journal for creative youthful realignment, and 6. a creativity coaching program to help women find and focus on their creative passion without overwhelm, procrastination, fear and self sabotage. Members also receive a Secret Anit-aging Starter Kit which includes a Laminated Club Card with Jill Badonsky art, the Network Decoder Ring, a Spirit Doll to Maintain the Spirit of the Kid, a Cigar box for decorating for the Muse Song Ritual, a piece of nostalgic candy, Anti-aging Potion Notion cards, Anti-aging Potion lotions, wind-up clapping teeth, stickers for child-like reward system and of course, bubbles.

Badonsky would not reveal to us all of the Anti-aging Potions that she shared on that call, but she did allude to two of them (a third one is the illustration you see there). She also gave a little information about the "Spot Remover": The first potion is called "Strength of Spirit" and it power provides prompts, action tips and support to develop a spirit untouched by the challenges of growing older, cultivation of an attitude of joy and character sculpting through exposure to others. Visual journaling, writing prompts, shared stories, practice with tiny steps toward new thoughts, and guided imageries celebrate this potion. The other potion she shared is called "Body Blissmas and a Happy New Rear" and provides members with support and tips on using creativity, music and a support network to make a vital and sensual body easier to achieve and maintain. "The Spot Remover" refers to the elimination of "age spots" which in this context refer to life intentions that are stained and soiled by a build up of creative blocks and the constant ringing around your mind of ruthless, relentless self-criticisms.
Those stubborn stains
You try scrubbing them out,
You try soaking them out,
Well, the Spot Remover BLASTS THEM OUT. It uses the most successful Kaizen-Muse creativity block busters to help women work through issues of negative self talk, low self confidence, overwhelm, perfectionism, difficulty focusing, procrastination and crankiness with the ease and pleasure of methods finely-tuned to make creativity easier and long-lasting. Want to finally FINISH a project? Try the Anti-aging Spot Remover.

All offerings in this program are geared toward NOT OVERWHELMING women even more, but instead, simplifying with small steps and tools that make focusing on passions easier. The fear of giving up a comfortable routine that is not serving you is addressed through easy methods that make the shift desirable and easy.

The society will begin this October. If you sign up by August 23rd you will receive a free art poster with Jill's whimsical drawings and descriptions of all the Anti-aging potions. If you would like to know more about the potions and the program

The society will begin in October in order to fill in the juicy content and build the community

*quirky women from other age groups are also invited.


All of the Anti-aging Potions will once again be revealed in another introductory teleconference on ..

Some Things to Dive into .. Events, Classes, Bathtubs

Dear Creative Seekers,

Put on Muse goggles to get focused on ways to return to your creative, child-like self. Register at http://themuseisin.com/classes.html or email info@themuseisin.com for more information.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 5pm pacific, 6pm mtn, 7 central, 8 eastern SQUINTING TO SEE THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY (ON THE PHONE) http://www.artellawordsandart.com/ecourse.html# This workshop presents tools that shift your thinking to child-like genius. Experience an amazingly easy way to find fresh new ideas to motivate your art and writing and the combination of both. Just like kids squint to see the world differently, you will be provided with points of views, visualizations, and unrelated thoughts that will help you easily access new channels of idea generation. We will then use these new perspectives to play with materials for art and creative writing. You will come away with:
* a tool you will use many times over to jump-start you into original creative action
* at least one finished product: a word and art entry to add to your visual journal or to frame
* a relaxed hour that you called all your own to devote uninterrupted time to unzipping your creative kid-like genius
* the afterglow of being in a playful creative flow
* a dose of necessary enhanced confidence in the realm of creativity
Sign up here: http://www.artellawordsandart.com/ecourse.html#

THURSDAY, JULY 20 Third Thursday Writing Workshop at Book Works, Del Mar
$13 We explore prompts and prods to keep the creative juices going for any kind of writing from poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction, shopping lists, love notes to journaling. Makes writing easy and playful. Going on six years in north county. All levels. No critique, writing happens in class. Writing is served with chocolate. This month's theme Wreckless Abandon and Seemless Writing in the Summer's Middle.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 2006 5 pm pacific, 6 mountain, 7 central and 8 p.m. eastern
An Introduction Nine Anti-Aging Potions (and a Spot Remover): The Fulfillment, Reward and Rejuvenation of Creative Thought and Action
Location: On the phone! Cost: ONLY $5 Sign up for the decoded number and secret code: see article above for more information than you could possibly need.

THURSDAY - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 - 23: Kaizen Meets the Muses: Unleashing Creative Brilliance Join Dr. Bob Maurer (www.scienceofexcellence.com )and Jill Badonsky for this Fun, Creative and Life Changing 3 days Location: Del Mar (North San Diego, California) Doubletree Hotel, Cost: Early bird discount to August 15! $165
Join Jill Badonsky and Dr. Robert Maurer for a Creative Intensive featuring topics and workshops on *Self-Sabotage * Guided Imagery * The Muse s Guide to Creative Fulfillment * Yoga and Creativity. For the low cost of this three day intensive you will
* Find out How to Make Creativity a Life Time Habit (even if you don t think you re creative)
* Break Through Blocks of Procrastination, Perfectionism, Overwhelm and Fear
* Move Beyond the Frustrating Patterns of Self Sabotage with a 3-Hour Workshop on Self Sabotage with Dr. Maurer
* Discover Your Hidden Resources of Wisdom, Creativity and Amusement in a 3-hour Guided Imagery workshop and journey with Jill Badonsky
*Experience surprises, laughter, fun, yoga in an all-day adventure with tribe members, creative seekers and disciples.
Workshop cost is $165 til August 15, $185 after that. Space is limited. Special room rates at the Doubletree Del Mar for attendees. When calling the Doubletree ask for the rooms reserved for The Muse Is IN. Included in the cost are appetizers Thursday night and continental breaksfast Friday and Saturday morning.
For more details: Please visit www.TheMuseIsIn.com or email: info@TheMuseIsIn.com 

NOVEMBER 1- 4 2006
Become a Certified Kaizen- Muse Creativity Coach or a Certified Muse Facilitator
For another stream of joy and income, to spread the word of the Nine Modern Day Muses join us in San Francisco to become a Certified Muse Facilitator
more here: http://themuseisin.com/classes.html

EVERY TUESDAY
Drop-in Writing Workshops continue every Tuesday at noon, E Street Cafe - Encinitas http://www.estreetcafe.com/
and
Every Third Thursdays (except August) 7 p.m.at Book Works, Flower Hill Mall -Del Mar

Start Where You Are

Ever notice how dirty your keyboard can get? As an artist and creative person, mine gets especially dirty (take note of the built in rationalization in that statement*). I was just cleaning my keyboard (as I'm getting ready to have people over to the house for a party) and I noticed how utterly disgusting it looks. Not that anyone will be hurrying in to look at my keyboard or even my art, but cleaning my keyboard is a way to rationalize not working on this newsletter (a clever form of procrastination which, I must admit makes me disrespect myself just a little less). But getting back to keyboard hygiene, I couldn't help but notice that certain keys were dirtier than others. I couldn't help but wonder (notice how I can't help a lot of things.. especially not keeping the house clean? [but that's because I'm an artist]) but I couldn't help but think that the dirt on certain keys and functions might show some revealing pattern. So I thought I'd share some observations I have about the dirt-patterns on my keyboard, (kind of like reading tea-leaves but really not even close).
The dirtiest letter on the keyboard was the letter T. The T key would be pressed by my left index finger so … does that mean that I use T a lot or that my left index finger is dirty a lot? tttttttttttttttttt Oops, sorry I was cleaning the T key again which on the keyboard is a capital T but it came out lower case when I was cleaning it. Even after having just cleaned it, it is once AGAIN the dirtiest key just within the time I've written this. Actually it's the only dirty key, the others are still clean. Hmm, suspicious. My left index doesn't appear to be dirty. How did this happen? I just counted and I used T so far 167 times (oops now it's 170), but because I'm an artist, I don't feel like doing a comparison with the other letters to determine how many times I've used them**. I'll just deduce that the T is like a vortex for dirt.
Next observation – the Backspace key is also very dirty so I must make a lot of mistakes. I could have told you that without looking at my keyboard, in fact if you have been reading my newsletter for awhile you might think that perhaps that key should be a lot little dirtier.
Next, the 9 and 0 key were very dirty.. (or maybe that's because they are also the ( and ) keys concluding that I seem to use parentheses a lot) (I think that's accurate) (What does that mean about me?) (Am I stuck between the smiley faces and frowns of the world? Aren't we all?). I'm going to go look "parentheses" up in the Wikipedia. I'll be right back.

Okay, here's the Wikipedia definition:

"An explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage with which it has not necessarily any grammatical connexion, and from which it is usually marked off by round or square brackets, dashes, or commas."

Hey! My spell check said connexion is not spelled correctly but I cut and paste it straight from the source so I'm not responsible for THAT mistake -I'm not touching my backspace key. Anyway based on that definition perhaps I "explain or qualify" myself a lot. Maybe I'm just a little too self involved. Now I'm feeling a little down about perhaps being a little too self involved (but really not that down).

Anyway, let me tell you about my mouse. The left clicker STILL isn't clean. I spent about 45 minutes trying to get the gunk off of it and went through several layers of art and food experiences. There was even a glitter layer, a yogurt layer, a blue layer (my blue period) and a just plain gross layer (actually there were three of those). It does have a texture to it so at least my finger doesn't slip around. That's my keyboard analysis.

Writing prompt: When procrastinating, just start writing about the activity you have chosen in lieu of what you are supposed to be doing. You might meet a deadline or you might simply amuse yourself. Writers can do this. *** Just start where you are.

*rationalization number one: being an artist makes it okay to be a little less concerned with being dirty. We can tolerate messes longer than others and if we can't, we will clean just to procrastinate getting to our work.
**rationalization number two: Artists can get away with being inconsistent because their rules are a little looser than non-artist types.
*** reality number one: Writers can defy the procrastination monster if they use clever tactics such as self-involvement. Thanks for bearing with (me).

Creativity Practice

On July 19 in 1994 Susan Montgomery blew the world's largest bubble gum bubble. It had a diameter of 23 inches:
Write a poem, haiku, news story, how-to, scientific fiction report or random thought about bubble gum or the world's largest bubble gum bubble. or continue with this sentence..
I noticed my feet started to lift off the ground as the bubble got bigger …

Here's a Haiku by Joe Sebo
oh bubble oh bubble
you go high up in the sky
with my dentures

Haikus are easy litlle pieces of brilliance to write on hot summer days. First line 5 syllables, second line 7 syllables and last line which give a sense of closure or awe, 5 syllables. First write a list of topics and then watch how you warm up and surprise yourself with each new one. Here's some topics for Haikus if you get stuck.. a hot day, lemonade, your keyboard, mid-summer's night dream(that's 5 syllables right there), clutter, the kitchen floor, what's in your freezer, procrastination. Send me Haikus you'd like to sharing. The creative process completes itself in a beautiful way and touches others when you share it.
Collage your haikus on one piece of paper or on a page in your visual journal. Or take one of them and cut out images that illustrate it. Or make what I call a Kamikaze collage in 15 minutes and then write a poem or haiku to describe it.

Good-bye for Now

Picture: Have a Seat - A Store window in Italy..

Thanks for joining me this month. Hope to see you or hear from you soon,

Gelato,
Jill

In This Issue:

Musings

Don't deny age.. defy age. Join me on July 10th for Anti-aging Potions from the Muses - a Teleconference. See Calendar for details.

Pattie's Power of Pink bra

Noogie- a character in Pattie's Mural

Gilda's Club info

Gesture Drawing: Table Fan

A gesture drawing is different from a contour drawing in that you do it very fast and the goal is to capture the energy and pose. You just scribble inside and out to preserve the spirit of the moment. Take two minutes to capture the energy of a pet or a person's pose, or something else with energetic possibilities. Great for travel sketching or waiting at the doctors office.

The gesture of Rosie our dog

Innocent pets can get caught in the rampage of gesture drawing crazes.

the book