Tranquility du Jour #444: Creative Expression
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, Kat O'Leary and I discuss creative expression, inner struggles, her Year of New project, and how to get out of our own ways to do the work.
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Kat O'Leary is a life artist, storyteller, and dreamer/planner. She blogs at Spirit for Skeptics, where she writes about creative productivity and practical spirituality. In 2016, Kat launched the Year of New project, doing one new thing every day and documenting her progress on Instagram. She also co-hosts the Hallmark Christmas movie podcast Business Christmas and is at work on a novel (okay, three novels). In her free time, Kat volunteers for READ 718 and the New York Junior League.
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| 0:00.0 | Tranquility DeJure, February 18th, 2019. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello there, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 444th edition of Tranquility |
| 0:16.0 | DeJure. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm recording here from Costa Rica, and we are here leading a retreat. |
| 0:23.3 | It's, gosh, probably my 15th time here, and it's tranquility in the tropics. |
| 0:28.0 | So yoga, twice a day, mindfulness incorporated into all of it, and then art journaling in the afternoons. |
| 0:35.4 | So we started yesterday. |
| 0:36.9 | This is day two and absolutely |
| 0:39.2 | delighted to be here with sunshine, papaya, blue skies. So it's a real treat and a big, |
| 0:45.1 | happy presence day to those of you who are stateside. Also, I've recorded a few videos, and then |
| 0:51.3 | there's also some photos that I'll be posting over on Instagram. |
| 0:54.7 | So feel free to follow along there and you can find me at at Tranquility DeJure. |
| 1:00.2 | Also, the show notes for this week's episode, which is an interview with the lovely Cat O'Leary, |
| 1:05.9 | we're discussing creative expression, inner struggles, her year of new project, which I just think is |
| 1:13.8 | genius, and how to get out of your own way to do the work. So it's funny, I have a list of |
| 1:21.4 | quite a few recorded podcasts from the past couple of months. And so I read the different topics |
| 1:26.4 | to my mother and I'm like, |
| 1:27.7 | okay, which one do you want to hear this week? And she's like, the creativity one. So, |
| 1:32.4 | cat, it is your, it is your week. And you can follow along. You can get the show notes this episode |
| 1:38.3 | at Kimberlywilson.com slash 444. Also a big thank you to those of you who reached out and let me know that you enjoyed last week's |
| 1:46.6 | episode on transitioning careers. |
| 1:48.7 | It's a tough topic, and it's also tricky to know when is it time to move on. |
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