Being a human is quite the ride. I'm keeping my knees flexed these days.

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quotes that reflect what's on my mind:

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.

~Dr. Preston Bradley

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Positive thinking by itself does not work. Your embodied vision, partnered with vibrant and energetic thinking, and balanced with active listening - will clear the path for your Miracles.

~Sumner Davenport

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If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

~Vincent Van Gogh

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If you want to something you've never had, you're going to have to try something you've never done.

Nuff Said.

Have a grand day,

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

Of Strength and Wisdom

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

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Improving Your "Self-Image" and Yourself Through Imagination

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"Self-image" is the key to human personality.

Expand the self-image and you expand the "area of the possible".

We can improve ourselves through improving our self-image.

This improvement will be both in our business and personal life.
We react to the image we have of ourselves in our brain.

Change that image for the better and our lives improve.

Self-image is changed for the better or worse, not by intellect alone, not by intellectual knowledge alone, but by experiencing.

Wittingly or unwittingly, you develop your self image by your creative experiencing in the past.

You can change this image by the same method.

This experiencing can be either real or imagined.

Experimental and clinical psychologists have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an 'actual experience" and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

Basically, a lie is as good as the truth as long as you believe it.

Maxwell Maltz M.D., a plastic surgeon, discovered that when you change a person's face you almost invariably change their future.

Change their physical image and nearly always the person is changed, their personality, their behavior, and sometimes, basic talents and abilities.

A plastic surgeon does not simply alter a person's face, he alters the person's inner self.

It's as though the personality itself has a ''face Maxwell Maltz discovered that you can change that "personality face without plastic surgery and thereby change a person's "self image" for the better.

If a person's "self image" changes for the better you almost invariably change the person's life for the better.

Maxwell Maltz, M.D., invented this process and called it Psycho-Cybernetics.
The process of improving our self-image involves using our imagination and looking at ourselves in the most positive way possible.

We each have a current self-image that governs our conscious and subconscious behavior.

If we are going to change our self-image we need to develop new ideas on how we picture ourselves.

Ideas are not changed by will but by other ideas.

We need to picture ourselves the way we want to be or what we want to become. It's very important to picture ourselves as already having attained full success, not just making progress toward success.

In sports the current hottest teaching technique is Cybernetics.

Prior to the students going out to start practice, they view video tapes of the best athletes and then mentally picture themselves as successful, smooth and coordinated, basically having already accomplished success.

They then learn faster, easier, with less stress and are more successful.

A technique that psychologists use for working on your self-image is to picture yourself before a large motion picture screen.

You need to concentrate on as many details as possible.

Make the picture vivid and real, pay attention to small details, sights, sounds, feelings, emotions.

Picture yourself as an accomplished speaker, a first class salesman, or a great negotiator.

Play out various scenarios in your mind.

Be confident and eloquent as a speaker.

Overcome every objection as a salesman or be a brilliant negotiator.

Mentally experience success.

Your mind reacts to what you have experienced easier than what you have intellectually learned.

All of us have had past successes that we are proud of.

Remember how great it felt, how confident you were and how you looked to the future with enthusiasm.

Remember and build on these feelings and memories, expand your capabilities and become a better you.
Remember!

If you have a low opinion of yourself others will too.

You should be your own best friend; don't tear yourself down.

We all want to be liked, wanted and able.

Give yourself the best chance.
Mentally picturing the desired end result forces positive thinking and lessens your tension.

Tension, inferiority complex, and hesitation (being too careful) are the biggest enemies.

You are better than you think.

Consciously improving each individual area is too hard and takes too much time. By mentally picturing total success you allow yourself to be positive, loose, and less inhibited in achieving a better total you.

This technique is guaranteed to work, to make life more enjoyable, business more successful and to put more enthusiasm in everything you do.

You're better than you think.

This process will allow you to prove it to yourself.
~Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz M.D.

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I am visualizing the art sale,

I am visualizing the best work I have ever done,

I am remembering the artworks that made

me feel the best I have ever felt, and the success that they brought me.

I am standing in a room of people, with everyone happy to be there,

and I am happy to be there to.

I am riding on the swell of my latest great work upward to my next great work.

I am believing that gold being sweat from the stone is possible, I am that gold.

Yours in the struggle to relax into the stress of the world,

faith, and self assured actions,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

Mind over matter, if you don't mind, it don't matter

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

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"Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind.

If encouraged, it cuts a channel into

which all other thoughts are drained."

~Arthur Somers Roche

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I am worried. I worry by nature.

I think too much, and it scares the living crap out of me.

I hate to fear anything. I loath fear. I despise being afraid.

When I feel this way, I am a woman of immense action.

Sometimes my ideas to fix situations are great ones,

sometimes they are real stinkers.

I am not sure exactly what to do

with this fear I awoke with today.

I am unsure how to make the best of this situation.

I am living in the now, and fear is riding shotgun today.

I need a plan of action to help my family, protect my kids from knowing

that we are as poor as we have ever been in their lives.

I need to fix this situation so that the books are balanced,

and I can stop worrying about the youngest child's birthday in a few days,

the bills that have to be paid,

the food not in the pantry,

the lack of basic things to make a life comfortable,

the need for clothing,

the desire for more things to correct and start working in our

favor again.

I need to stop begrudging luck and fortune.

I will think about love, faith and courage,

to drive away the fear, the worry, the

anxiety of my dreams and my waking life today.

I will cross bridges, I will create meaning,

I will work as hard as I ever do, and then work harder.

Life is a gift, even when it's full of despair and worry.

I will remind myself of this every other minute today,

second by second if I have too.

I will keep my faith, and use my courage.

I will continue to be myself,

I will work harder, think faster,

and do everything in my power to

not focus on things I can't do anything about.

Rome was not built in a day, and my new life can't be expected to

be re-built in a week either.

So on I go, asking for nothing and taking the worry,

the fear and examining every inch of it,

for in that I will find new opportunity.

I will take chances,

and live, continue, and survive this day

with success, with grace and without

complaint,

because I am human,

and working to become more.

I am the next stage in human evolution,

in understanding,

I have to think a lot of myself,

if I don't who will?

I will not bemoan, I will not wish for it,

I will work for it,

with my head high, without too much pride,

and with the conviction of my dreams.

Onward and upward, it can't get much worse,

so it can only get better from here.

Yours in courage & faith today,

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

I'm Baaack!

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

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"All your life, you have heard yourself denounced; not for your faults, but for your greatest virtues.

You have been hated, not for your mistakes, but for your achievements.

You have been scorned for all those qualities of character which are your highest pride.

You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgment and bearing sole responsibility for your own life.

You have been called arrogant for your independent mind.

You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity.

You have been called anti-social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

You have been called ruthless for the strength and self-discipline of your drive to your purpose.

You have been called greedy for the magnificence of your power to create wealth. You, who've expended an inconceivable flow of energy, have been called a parasite.

You, who've created abundance where there had been nothing but wastelands and helpless, starving men before you, have been called a robber.

You, who've kept them all alive, have been called an exploiter.

You, the purest and most moral man among them, have been sneered at as a 'vulgar materialist.'

Have you stopped to ask them:

by what right? - by what code? - by what standard?"

~Ayn Rand

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We have arrived at our new resting place. The home we

live in isn't the nicest in the world, but it is ours,

and we will make the best of it, with pride.

Danville is a really nice town, a little wet and cold for the last couple days,

but a very nice place to live, grow, work and

raise our little family.

I am pleased with the way things are turning out so far.

We are still unpacking, I am getting back to work with

my coaching clients, and working on new commissioned

work for a well loved art patron.

The boys are settling into sharing a bedroom, and will start school again next week, I can't wait for quiet days again.

Mate Man is looking for work, and it is a lot more promising here than in

Mississippi, we have crossed fingers.

The dog and cat made it just fine.

Danville is a dry town, interesting to me as I have never lived in a town where you could not buy liquor of any kind, I didn't even know they still had places like this in the country.

I will be getting together with the local art community leader

soon, and hopefully arranging for a public showing of my artwork for the near future.

Money is tight, and a more than a little scary, but I have hope and faith that things will eventually work out for us, in a fine fashion.

I am tired and sore from all the moving and travel.

We got stuck in an Alabama traffic jam on the way here that lasted hours in very hot sun, but we made it through and that was our biggest trouble on the trip.

I guess that's all for today, just wanted to let you all know we made it, and are fine...a little on the stressed side, but fit as fiddles.

Be well, Share the love.

Yours in Courage,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com