Excerpts from the Expanded

Third Edition of The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard)

By Jill Badonsky

Hi. For the third edition of The Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard), the Muses wanted to add something new, so they got together and brainstormed how their principles could be applied to areas where mortals want and need more creative inspiration. They wanted to print the whole book here so the world could benefit, however Marge and Audacity provided a PowerPoint presentation that indicated that that wouldn’t be so smart for book sales. It was a very short presentation.

The Muses and Marketing

Since each of the Modern Day Muses are creativity principles in disguise, you can apply them to marketing your business, your art, your writing, or yourself. The ideas result in the magnetic forces only Muses can inspire.

They sincerely bring you the power to make marketing authentically YOU and convince you that if you are passionate about whatever it is you are trying to share with the world, and take small steps that feel like a blend of common sense and inspired intuition, you will attract all the business you need.

Here is a sampler of what just three of the Modern Day Muses have to say about Marketing:

Aha-phrodite: Tools to Pay Attention
What you focus on becomes stronger.

• Pay attention to:
  What you are passionate about. Share that passion in a genuine way with joy, confidence and authenticity and people will flock to you.

Albert: Tools to Be Unique and Think Different about Your Marketing Self

• Thinking differently:
  What makes you different? What rules are there for you to tweak to make them work for you? Or break?

Spills: Permission to Be Imperfect, Embrace the Process, and Practice

• Remind yourself you do not have to do this perfectly for it to work and bring you business. Just begin.

The Muses and Yoga

Muse Intentions for Yoga Teachers:

• To allow the Nine Modern Day Muses to awaken your inner Muse or that of your students.

• To be present with the union of creativity and yoga with no attachment to results.

• To bring a creative question or questions to either the series or a particular class, and be open to the messages received

A Sampler of How the Muses can Serve your Yoga Practice

Each Muse contributes to the yoga experience. Here are three short samples of what is provided.

Bea Silly:
Essence: The need to play with ideas, to lighten up, pairing moving with creative thought to elicit humor.

Preludes and Closings:

• Where mentally, physically, spiritually can I lighten up?

• "Don’t think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Muse Song:
Essence: Nurturing and encouragement.

Preludes and Closings:

• Touch the heart with both of your hands and feel yourself open to the great reservoirs of love you have inside.

• Surrender the struggle.
  
  “If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.” ~ Osho

Audacity:
Essence: Courage, authenticity, uninhibited uniqueness.

Preludes and Closing:

• Get big during your practice today. Be expansive — mind and body. Invite in new ideas without judgment or attachment.

• Take the courage from today's practice with you the rest of today.

• Imagine testing the edges of your creative passion today.
  
  “When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” ~ George Washington Carver

The Muses and Agelessness

Sample

Audacity:
Mission: Living your life and manifesting dreams with courage, trust, and sass.

Focus: Being authentic, jaunty, spirited, and confident. Embracing the freedom not to care what people think — are you capitalizing on it?

Small Questions:
How would it feel to be authentic?
What small courageous step can I take today?
What's one small way can I embrace the freedom that comes when we don't care what people think?

Inspired Insight:
"I am not a has-been. I am a will be." ~ Lauren Bacall

© 2010 Jill Badonsky. All rights reserved.

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Jill Badonsky, M.Ed. is founder of Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching and is author of The Awe-manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder and The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration. Visit her online at TheMuseisIn.com. Become trained as a certified Kaizen-Muse™ creativity coach and liberate creative souls — including your own.

10/27/10