The Artist's Eyes by Jenn Lee

Spring is here! Spring is here! Spring into action with your creativity! With each new year and each new spring season everyone gets spring fever. Out with the winter dull drums and in with the wash of new things. A sudden surge of motivation abounds with a renewed vigor.

The sun is shining and the weather is warming up. When it comes to our personal lives, spring is spring cleaning, spring yard work, springing into action outdoor adventures and enjoying the outdoors.  This new springing into action does not have to be limited to our personal lives and freshening up our homes, it can be applied to our businesses as well.

With spring motivation, clearing out the old can be cleaning out the home office. I know for me, over the winter items seemed to sneak into my workspace from around the house. A cluttered workspace creates a less creative mind. This is a good time to go through the clutter and straighten up a bit. Putting away unused supplies, clearing space on your work station and going through old paperwork can remove negative energy by taking away unnecessary distractions and organizing the space that you need are all good ways to spring into new creative flow.

Sometimes taking a second look at the way your home office/studio is set up can inspire new thoughts about how your work area worked for you and how it could better work for you. A good flow in your workspace can create a better flow in your work attitude and abilities. Having a window behind you may have been a negative impact on your space, where as repositioning your workspace to face a window may create a new attitude or level of creativity.With your back to a window you shadow your workspace, which can be a negative, where if you are facing it, you are bringing the sunshine in to you. Open the window and feel the cool breezes of spring, let it blow away anxieties and stresses and clear your mind to focus on your work and goals.

Maybe it’s time to think about your walls? Do you have dark colors in your home office/studio? What about colors that are less than soothing or busy and distracting? A fresh coat of paint to brighten up your space in a color that doesn’t distract but rather inspires or reduces anxieties is a quick and easy change. In addition look at the items that decorate your walls. You want decorations that don’t distract you, rather decorations that inspire you.

When working from home, it can be nice to take it outside. A change of atmosphere can also create a great inspiration or renewed vigor with your work. I plan on taking my laptop and easel outside and getting creative on my backyard deck. The open air, sunshine, sounds and smells of spring are very invigorating. Who wants to be stuck inside a stuffy room when it’s so beautiful outside? If it’s available to you, it’s a great opportunity to take advantage of…enjoy the privileges of working from home.

With these small spring changes, you can totally renew your workspace. Spring brings new life in all different ways from the birth of new life of animals, plants and flowers. Why not your workspace? Spring into action!

When I think of spring, I think of the emergence of  sunshine, seeing leaves starting to fill out the branches of trees that went bare and dormant for winter,  as well as the pops of color emerging with soon to be blossoms on bushes and shrubs. Spring represents new life, a new beginning…and for me, inspiration! What does spring make you think of?

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