RGW Inspiration: Words and Images

"Our actions create our life… Agree? Our thoughts create our actions…. Agree? Our thoughts are communicated to us in the form of language…. Agree? So…how can we live our largest, most expressive and most loving life if we are using vocabulary that makes us smaller, weaker and discouraged. Do you know anybody, maybe even yourself, who loves to use phrases like: “This only happens to me”, “Life’s a b*tch“, “I caaaaaaaaan’t!”, “Never!”, “I just can’t win”, “I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t”. The biggest problem with these phrases is not that they are negative or self centered, it’s that they stop you from taking action. Phrases like this paralyze us and fool us into thinking that we have no power and no choice. Which is nonsense. What if our words always made us and who ever we are talking to feel inspired, empowered and re-energized?" Read on ... http://everydaypowerblog.com/2013/04/23/top-5-words-to-delete-from-your-vocabulary/

––– "You've Got the Power" The first moment you said, "I didn't do this to me, someone else did. I didn't cause this bad feeling; others made me feel this way" is the moment you gave up your power to be formative in the events of your life. The ability didn't go away, however … it is right there in front of you. Take it back. For those of you whose first thought is, "What about children? They don't decide what happens to them." I'll warrant your logic in that. However, you are not a child. The degree of your ability to attain your goals in life depends entirely upon the degree that you are willing to take responsibility for the events in it. As well, for anything to exist in your life, it needs to be created. This includes your health -- good or bad. This includes your ability -- good or bad. This includes your emotional reactions -- good or bad. This includes your relationships -- good or bad. We create the bad stuff ...

If you don't have the time to create what you want, to put your life right, to live your life well ... when, my friend, are you going to have the time to do it over? ....................... I hope you are having, or have a had, a great Sunday! "Sunday Afternoon" a painting by Robin Griggs Wood #rgwoodpost #color #colors #inspiration #sunsetphotography #fineart #fineartpls #artdesign #design #fantasy #fantasyart #fantasydigitalart #digital #creative #digitalart #fantasyart #surrealart   ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Please feel free to ask me, if you would like any of my images available for print at robingriggswood.com ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀

–– Leap of Faith There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.   So what the hell, leap.  ~ Cynthia Heimel As an adjunct to my "stolen work" post yesterday ( http://goo.gl/GaznB ) … I offer some more thoughts on the subject. I like to push the creative envelope with my images, just to see what is possible. It doesn't matter, I can always shoot more or process again. Too many artists fall in love with their work, their "children", and can't move past the idea to just do MORE.  These "children", like real children, need to be let go of eventually. Then the new create can come in, which has the potential to become something much greater. The ability to "waste" your work is actually sanity in the world of creativity.  …………. ––––– #FloralFriday with thanks to Tamara Pruessner #PurpleCircle, with thanks to Lynn Langmade Craig Szymanski Sinead Sam McKeown Alexis Coram  #...

––– Wallpaper, WALLPAPER! The other day, I found one of my paintings ( http://goo.gl/3STnp ) strewn around the Web on "free wallpaper" sites. They had gotten it off "CGSociety" (notorious for having works stolen from), cropped my signature off the bottom and ran it through a pixel bending program, stripping my copyright and generally uglifying it. Some even had the audacity to plop their copyright logo over mine. Not that this is anything new. What did I do? I was reminded on something a girlfriend, one of the great teachers in my own life, said to me one day, "When you make something, give it away … then you'll just have to make more." When you start to think of the works that you do as too important or significant you start to lose objectivity––the one thing you need for honing skills.  Make something, give it away, throw it away, burn it or just do it again.  Make it unimportant and you lose the stress and pressure -- those are the top two creativit...

Happy To Be The path to enlightenment is not a path at all,  it’s actually a metaphor for the time it takes for you to allow yourself to be happy  with who you already are,  where you’re already at,  and what you already have,  no matter what. …………. ~ the Universe ––––– #TreeTuesday #LandscapePhotography #hqsplandscape #bwfineart #hqspmonochrome #rgwoodpost #canonphotography #canonphotographer #digitalphotography Promote Photography   #promotephotography #amazing #naturephotography NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY Nature Photography   #inspiration   #skyphotography #bwphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #bw #monochrome #monochromephotography   ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Please feel free to ask me, if you would like any of my images available for print at robingriggswood.com