2013 Brilliant Chaos Creating Challenge

The new year is here, and at this time many people create goals. Perhaps you’ve heard of SMART goals? Well, on Planet Chaos (the home of Brilliant Chaos), SMART goals are sooooo early-2000s. No, on Planet Chaos, we ask ourselves “What CHAOS do we want to create in the coming year?” This is our way of inviting you to develop your own Creating Challenge for 2013.

What exactly do we mean by CHAOS? Well, let us tell you:
C-Creation:
What exactly do you want to love into existence?

H-How:
How will you know you’ve accomplished it? What kind of parameters do you need to complete your creation?

A-Achievable:
Can you realistically complete this creation in the time alloted? What resources do you need to do so?

O-OMG (Oh.My.Geefwidiousness!*):
On a scale from 1 to 10, how geefwidious* is this creation for you?

S-Schedule:
How long do you want to take to achieve this creation? How often do you want to work toward it?

Here, at Brilliant Chaos, we will be creating our own CHAOS around the world. And you know what? We’ll be doing it brilliantly.
 
What constitutes CHAOS? Here are some broad categories:
Project: What does not exist now that you want to have exist by the end of 2013? (Example: book, business, website, painting, building, etc.)

Time: How often do you want to create? For what duration? (Example: one project a day for the first week of the month.)

Learning: What new skills are acquired and/or needed? (Example: mastering watercolor painting or developing your website-building skills.)

A mixture of all of the above.

So, in the coming weeks, consider what kind of CHAOS you’d like to bring to the planet. If you would like, express your commitment to CHAOS as a comment on this post along with any requests for support you’d like. As well, please join our Facebook group here. In that group we will host regular check-ins. As well, each of you may create a separate document (see “Files” tab and then click “+Create Doc”) that can list your individual commitments and requests for ready reference.

*Geefwidious®: A word of Brilliant Chaos’ Chaotish Language®, meaning full of wonder and discovery with a sense of satisfaction.

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Wendy’s CHAOS:
C-Creation:
365 Days of Creating: Designing and creating companies of people.

H-How:
Daily activities to include one or more of the following:

• Movement towards create companies of people - could be short-term, long-term, project based, relationship based, with/for creatives, healers and leaders
• Creating structures
• Prophetic art
• Watch videos, read books, experiment, prototype
• Research, Relationship building
• Daily activities to include something visible to the naked eye, in plain sight:
• Post it on personal blog daily
• Post link from my personal blog on Brilliant Chaos FB page daily
• Be fully present when I’m creating.

A-Achievable:
Part of the daily process will be to determine the specific project goals that I’ll pursue throughout 2013.

O-OMG (Oh.My.Geefwidiousness!*):
On a scale from 1 to 10, how geefwidious* is this creation for you? 10!!! I feel VERY challenged and excited by this creating challenge. Way out of my comfort zone!

S-Schedule:
Every day in 2013, small steps, may take 5 minutes up to an hour or two.


Lisa’s CHAOS:
C-Creation:
365 Days of Creating: Developing Artistic Acumen and Projects

H-How:
Do at least one thing a day to move artistic skill and/or projects forward
Examples:

• sketch
• begin an art journal page
• finish an art journal page
• begin an art project
• finish an art project
• watch applicable videos
• read applicable books and magazines
• experiment
• post on blog daily
• post blog link on BC page daily

A-Achievable:
Time set aside each day (10 minutes to 2 hours) to create.
Grace to make up a missed day--if I miss one or more days, I create multiple things on following days.

O-OMG (Oh.My.Geefwidiousness!*):
I am completely exhilarated and slightly overwhelmed. I’m at a 10--a great place to be! Very important to the impact I want CHAOS to have on my life!

S-Schedule:
I will take all year, a bit of time each day (10 minutes to 2 hours) to complete this goal.

5-Day Creating Challenge Coming Up!

Hello, Brilliant Chaos fans!

Time for yet another Creating Challenge! This one will be a five-day Challenge running from Monday, December 5 to Friday, December 9, 2011.

Here are the four steps for each day of the Creating Challenge:

1. Before you take any actions, sit down for a minute or two and conceive of the result you want to create. (Have a clear vision of the finished creation.)
2. Note the current state of the creation. (What is the current status and materials/elements needed to complete the creation?)
3. Take action. (Move from vision to completed reality. Stay true to the vision and resists improvisation.)
4. Once you have finished the project, look at it and live with it for a few minutes. (Reflect on the process and your experience.)

We hope you join us for this upcoming Creating Challenge. As well, if you wish, please join our  Facebook group so you can post your creations and responses to this challenge both on this blog and with our FB community!

Momentum

A week or so ago we completed our seven-day Creating Challenge. How do we all keep the creating vibe alive? We leverage the momentum that naturally occurs in the creating cycle. In this podcast, we describe how!

Creating Challenge #2--We're Halfway There!

Hey, everybody!

We're at the halfway mark of our most recent Creating Challenge. Congratulations for making it this far! To celebrate, we made a podcast just for you--it was our creation for Day 4. It's a little on the rough side--Lisa sounds sometimes as if she's underwater--but we decided to eschew perfection and embrace enthusiasm.

So please take about eight minutes to listen to our five-minute podcast. And thanks for embarking on this challenge with us!

Creating: Not Just for the "Creative" Anymore

"Oh, I can't participate in a Creating Challenge. I'm just not a creative person."

We tend to think that creating is the realm only of the creative: the artist, the writer, the musician, the dancer, anyone with a hand in a free-flowing expression of self. When we don't fall into a more right-brained way of being, we dismiss the concept that we, too, can be creators.

Well, none of you get off that easy! ;-) We are throwing down a Creating Challenge, not a Creative Challenge. Creating is different from being creative. Many creative people don't create at all. They dream big dreams but for whatever reason cannot put pen to paper, hands to clay, or voice to microphone. In contrast, people who create begin a project and finish it. They conceive of something they want to exist in the world, they do what it takes to bring it about, and once it's completed, they release it into the wild.

That's what this challenge is about, and therefore, it can include any number of projects. For example:

• Cooking a beautiful meal for family and/or friends;
• Developing a time map for your week;
• Making a chore jar for your kids, filled with slips of paper that list daily chores;
• Devising an Excell or Numbers document to track your expenses;
• Writing an itinerary for an upcoming trip;
• Replacing a torn screen in your screen door with a new one;
• Arranging a restful space in your home for mediation, reading, and other quiet pursuits; and/or
• Creating anything your heart and mind can imagine!

The Creating Challenge can also include ventures we more traditionally call creative, so go ahead and write your poems and songs, paint your pictures, mold your sculptures. Whatever you choose, take ten minutes to two hours to dream up something and make it real.

So, let's brainstorm some more potential projects. Please comment below and let us know some creations you might bring to fruition during our Creating Challenge! And in case you need the details for our Creating Challenge, you can find those here.

Creating Challenge #2!

Hello, Brilliant Chaos fans!

We got such a charge out of our test-run Creating Challenge that we decided to turn right around and do another one. Not only that, but we've also chosen to lengthen it--this time to seven days. So our upcoming Creating Challenge will run from Monday, June 27 to Sunday, July 3, 2011.

But wait, there's more! We really want to invite YOU along! This challenge is perfect for:

• people who have a number of projects they'd like to complete;
• gifted kids out of school for summer wanting something challenging to do;
• anyone interested in creating; and
• lots more people!

Remember, we've outlined four steps for each day of our Creating Challenge:

1. Before you take any actions, sit down for a minute or two and conceive of the result you want to create. (Have a clear vision of the finished creation.)
2. Note the current state of the creation. (What is the current status and materials/elements needed to complete the creation?)
3. Take action. (Move from vision to completed reality. Stay true to the vision and resists improvisation.)
4. Once you have finished the project, look at it and live with it for a few minutes. (Reflect on the process and your experience.)

We hope you join us for this upcoming Creating Challenge. As well, if you wish, please join our new Facebook group so you can post your creations and responses to this challenge both on this blog and share with our FB users!

We look forward to enjoying this challenge with you!

The Creating Challenge - Day 4

Hello, all!

Well, yesterday was the last day of our challenge, and I (Lisa) celebrated by finishing a drawing I'd begun on Day 3. I followed the process and found it easy since I already had a vision from the first day of drawing. It was simply a matter of completing what I'd begun. I would not have completed the drawing as quickly as I did had I not been involved in this challenge.

I am so happy we did this challenge. It felt good to create each day and to reflect on the process. I am much more in touch with ways I create daily. I hope we do another and longer creating challenge soon. Make sure to follow our young creator Micah who has already begun his own seven-day challenge! And stay posted for our next event--we'd love to have more people join us and tap into their own creating energy!

(And now I've created yet another blog post!)