Get a mentor – I spent a few hours with Peggy my daughter’s elementary school art teacher and an accomplished artist on Monday. It helped so much to have her look at my work and encourage me.

Start a series – jumping around between projects has been adding to my angst. So I took Peggy’s advice and started a series of collages and paintings – both building on something I’d already made and liked.

Allow the energy to move within the work. Just like in yoga when the energy builds and I tell it, "Move as you will within this pose," the creative energy can move within the work – that can be the room (dancing, swaying, singing, sighing, screaming) and the work itself (informing but not directing the drawing, the collaging, the color choice) but it is not allowed to take you off, to high jack you nor are you allowed to ignore it and tamp it down.

Talk to the energy, ask it what it wants. It may the critic or the rebel and therefore, need to be listened to but you always have the final say!!