This evening was the final teleconference for the Creating Time Mega Event launching the book Creating Time: Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life by Marney Makridakis. I've attended all three, and I must say that I've had more fun, met more people, and been introduced to more new books and websites than in any other webinar I've taken part in.
In each of the three events, we've doodled clocks. Instructions were to take moments instead of taking notes. So I recorded the pregnant pauses as well as the salient points while I looked for the metaphors. I listened intently, watched a video, composed a group poem, and adjourned to small groups twice for discussions. All this over a period of an hour and a half, all the while doodling my clock and taking notes moments.
At the end of the webinar, I was surprised. I really hadn't looked at the paper I was doodling on in the process. I was on autopilot, expanding time by layering my activity, my attention heightened and present for listening, moment taking, doodling, and coloring, all at once and equally present, all happing at once within the same moment in time.
Who says time isn't pliable as putty? Here's what I discovered I had done by the end of the evening: Not a piece of art, but a cohesive collection of ideas, colors, pattern, and metaphor. A surprising outcome for someone who was present in so many places at the time the drawing was taking place.
Quite different from multi-tasking, this was a free act of letting the hand do it's work while the brain watched and listened. The words "Creating Time" and the date were added afterward. Everything else was done while participating in the event.
So I wanted to take the time to share this with you, and let you know that I highly recommend the book, Creating Time: Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life. It's filled with insights, activities and wisdom from the more than 80 artists, creatives, authors and other luminaries who contributed to this effort. Yesterday was its release date on amazon.com and it hit #1 in sales in numerous categories. I'm not surprised.
If you're interested -- and who wouldn't be? -- in celebration of the book's overwhelming success on it's first day of release, the special offer I mentioned in yesterday's post has been extended until April 24. You can find out more by clicking HERE to read yesterday's blog post, or by clicking HERE to sign up for the offer itself. There are more than $125 worth of fabulous and absolutely free items and perks, just for buying a book you'd want to own anyway. I know, because I took advantage of it and spent hours downloading all the fabulous morsels and tidbits, which include e-books, online courses, audio recordings and more. Really. What are you waiting for? This isn't a sales pitch, it's my own personal opinion. As they say, you snooze, you loose, so go for it!