June, 2018 | Liz Cirelli

Daydream Believers Podcast hosted by Liz Cirelli

How to stay motivated & inspired with Rob Lawrence

29/06/2018 by LizCirelli

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This month, the amazingly inspiring Rob Lawrence took some time out to chat with me about his tips and tricks for staying motivated and inspired.

Rob is an audio producer, author, podcaster and a phenomenal coach who helps creative entrepreneurs embrace the power of sound to broadcast messages worth listening to. In short, he’s awesome. He hosts a gorgeous podcast called Inspirational Creatives which is a fountain of…inspiration!

This is Rob’s podcast. If you haven’t already subscribed to it, do so!

During this episode, Rob and I answered the questions submitted by members of my coaching community, Daydream Believers:

How can I focus on projects whilst also concentrating on other things? I am a one main project kind of person but when I don’t have a main project, I try and do a couple but don’t achieve anything.
What techniques can Rob suggest for compartmentalising – keeping focused on creative goals alongside daily pressures?
If inspiration strikes in different ways at different times, how can I give a coherent structure to a body of work? So how to fit creative vision around inspiration if outside of that point of focus?

The website on heat mapping that Rob mentioned was Productiveflourishing.com
The book is: The One Thing by Gary Keller

These podcasts exist to provide you with the knowledge, inspiration and motivation needed to pursue your dreams.

If you’d like to join the Daydream Believers online coaching community, have your say on what topics get covered during our podcasts – and have your questions answered by our expert guests, simply become a patron here. You can sign up quickly and easily and you’ll also get access to the full range of my coaching packages. Plus you’ll get exclusive early access to all my musical output – and lots of lovely treats in between!

You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher.

Really looking forward to welcoming you to the family!

Unleash that gift of yours!

I’m probably most known as a music artist – I’ve been making music since 2009 and without a shadow of a doubt, it’s one of my biggest passions in life. And hey – to those of you who have been with me since the day of my first release. THANK YOU! I have so much love and appreciation for you.

But…I also naturally seem to gravitate towards helping people. What can I say…? I love it. I seem to do it naturally. Recently, the ways that I can help people have really been coming into focus: empowering people to follow their dreams. YES!

What better way to use my experience as a creative than to empower people to pursue their own creative passions? This really is the golden nugget for me.

This led me to set up an online coaching community called Daydream Believers. It was born a little under a year ago – and it has grown into such a beautiful place.

I thought it would also be really lovely to get some of the members of the community together so they could tell you themselves about how it’s been helping them.

So we did that! We made this short little video to share the love and inspiration. A picture, as they say, tells a thousand words 🙂

All of us pulled together to make it happen.

I know so many amazing creatives who are struggling to make ends meet and this has such a detrimental impact on not just their creative output, but their overall well-being.

This is NOT how things should be. Creativity is a gift and should be celebrated.

Our unique gifts should be treasured and honed, not ridiculed and snuffed out.

We should be able to make a living from our gifts without being commoditised or exploited.

We should be able to express our creativity as it comes to us, without having to fit into a trend or an industry demand.

I want to empower people all over the world to follow their dreams because I believe that in doing so, I will do my part in making this world a better place. My big vision is to be able to empower children from troubled or underprivileged homes to follow their creative calling and live enriched and fulfilling lives.

Thank you. I love you all.

Liz xxx

Faith, belief, trust, surrender & GRATITUDE!

10/06/2018 by LizCirelli

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Liz Cirelli blog post: Faith, belief, trust, surrender & GRATITUDE!

Wow. I’m just taken aback at how amazing Patreon is. This week when I was down in my little basement studio, working on the mix-down for one of the album tracks – and I started crying. Tears of deep and really heartfelt gratitude. Tears of relief. Tears of joy.

It finally seems that what I’ve been wishing for, for so long, is finally manifesting.

What have I been wishing for? At the most basic level, it’s pretty simple: to be able to support myself financially making music that touches people’s souls. Making a living making content that matters – that means something.

I also love playing the piano, and yes, it’s also my wish to master this instrument. But damn it’s hard! I’ve still got a long way to go and finding the time to practice for a substantial amount of time has been a struggle.

Oh – and singing. I love singing. Despite having been told on several occasions that I ‘don’t quite have ‘the’ voice’ to be commercially successful, I’ve carried on doing my vocal exercises and (I think) my voice is slowly but surely improving!

I’m not going to stop singing just because someone in the ‘industry’ told me I don’t have the right voice. Ok, that was a lie. I did stop singing. For about 10 years. But something bigger than me (God, perhaps…?) told me to stop being such a crybaby and ‘get back behind that mic!’

I’ve been on a crazy ride with this creativity bandwagon (and I’m sure I’ve still got a tonne more crazy rides to go!) Being able to make ends meet from my creativity alone has always seemed to evade me. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been knocked back by a label on the reasoning that my sound isn’t “quite right for them.” I’ve tried this and that, but I always seemed to get so far and then not be able to move forward.

I’m slowly starting to realise I was blocking my own success. I also realise that I create a lot of stuff. It seems Patreon is the perfect platform for me to offer all I have to the world and sustain myself from it (thank you, Patreon!) My Patreon page is and will be the culmination of everything I am – both as a person and a creative.

But this couldn’t have happened 10 – or even 5 years ago. Nope.

To me, Patreon feels like the most natural and beautiful exchange, but man, it requires you to be comfortable with being vulnerable! And vulnerability, from the way I see things, requires a certain level of humility.

Now that I think about it – Patreon is the way it’s MEANT to be. Artists in direct contact with their audience, producing content for the people who really care about it. No middle-men standing in between me and you.

No giant company owning my rights and taking a huge cut of my royalties, no debt owed to a record label in the form of an advance. None of that complicated, ‘industry’ stuff. Patreon goes back to the way it used to be – simple, organic. Creator and patron. Connection, creation, love.

I love this platform. I really do see it as the beginning of the next chapter for me. And I’m SO grateful to all the amazing human beings who jumped in with me and joined my page right at the beginning.

I think I’m finally starting to experience that when you truly believe in a dream and can imagine that you already have what you’re wishing for, you open the channel for you to receive it. And that living in a state of gratitude keeps this channel open and acts as a magnet, drawing what you wish for, ever closer to you.

Again, I find myself coming back to this concept of faith – we have to believe in something we can’t see in order to allow it to be made manifest. We have to trust that what we are investing our energy into believing, will manifest. We have to surrender to the crazy-ass journey that takes us there – and most of all, we have to remain in a state of gratitude through it all!

No wonder most of us waste our precious time and energy chasing our tails!

Faith, belief, trust, surrender – and gratitude…the ingredients that, when combined together consistently and regularly, create the most beautiful magical spells.

Thank you so much for coming here and taking the time out to have a read. If you’d like to get early access to all my blog posts, musical output – and get access to my coaching community, please join my Patreon page by clicking here. It’s where all the action is happening! You can sign up quickly and easily and as a patron, you’ll receive some really lovely rewards. Big love, Liz.

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How to stay motivated & inspired with Rob Lawrence

Unleash that gift of yours!

Faith, belief, trust, surrender & GRATITUDE!