The Daily Dose
The Daily Dose
vitamin C for your soul
Photo Editor and Designer: Mary Welty-Dapkus
Consciousness.
Courage’s companion, confidant and champion.
No end to vital the C”s.
Posts Tagged: creativity
The Daily Dose – Vitamin C for Your Soul
Consciousness…the incandescent way to see.
Dip into the radiance before you.
Immerse into the radiance within you.
Splash the radiance OF you.
Immerse into the radiance within you.
Splash the radiance OF you.
You are positively shimmering in this light.
As many of you know, I create the Daily Dose, an M-F email subscription of visual vitamin C – consciousness. Each Monday, I will feature one of Doses for the week on the blog. Last Monday was “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, MOI.” Today’s Dose is “Radiance Bathe.”
Daily transformation, sometimes soul-busting, pain-staking transformation, is what inspires me to be, do, and feel more expanded and filled with the light of possibility than the limitations of fear and regret. I am transformed by how I see the world each and everyday. So, as I have shared, I love how the original photo I start with is transformed in the process of creating the Dose.
Here is a before and after of this week’s offering. When I was in Phoenix visiting my mother a few weeks ago, my sister Lisa brought my mother a bouquet of beautiful flowers. Brilliant purple tulips, and orange and white ranunculus. A visual feast for the eye. I took several pictures of the bouquet and the picture of the white ranunculus was the one I played with at PicMonkey. An the results were, dare I say, radiant.
May you have the courage to see with new eyes, to be transformed by what the light reveals, and to see yourself and the world anew today. Just for today.
If you are interested in receiving this visual daily Dose of inspiration to your inbox, you can learn more about this Fresh Intuition offering here.
The Daily Dose – vitamin C for your soul
Consciousness.
Catching consciousness.
Better yet – get caught.
C’ing yourself in a whole new way.
And Moi, you are looking très magnifique.
This is the Dose.
I create them.
Yup. I do.
And no one is more surprised by this than eeny, meeny, miny…MOI!
Let me give you a brief history of The Dose and how this creative fuel has changed lives. Starting with mine.
- Heard about Pinterest last spring – one GIANT online bulletin board. A huge oversimplification but you get the idea. I resisted, too much going on.
- Attended a networking meeting March 2012 about social media that featured…Pinterest. I stopped resisting.
- Fell in LOVE with Pinterest but discovered I wanted to CREATE my OWN posters. Only one problem. I didn’t have a clue how to do it.
- Got a CLUE! I got a bunch of them which included a camera, a few simple software tools, some “fresh intuition”, a healthy dose of passion and a desire to create that was so strong, there was no turning back. (And believe me, sometimes I think what have I gotten myself into!)
- Launched the Daily Dose – vitamin C for your soul my simple and highly visual campaign for consciousness and offered it to the subscribers of my monthly newsletter in June 2012.
- Stopped the Dose on the VERY first day when someone unsubscribed and I thought – “oh, sh**, maybe people don’t want this, maybe I am not suppose to do this?” HUGE crisis of confidence. But the urge to create was even stronger. So…
- I put on my courageous and creative BIG girl pants and here I AM, EIGHT months later creating FIVE posters a week for my growing list of “fresh” fans.
- Which has led to friends Colleen and Madison Altendorf and Wendy Squire lending their creative eye and photos along with my own and a smattering of Microsoft Images for what I call “Dose fodder.” I have heard from scores of other people who have shared the Dose, who quote what consciousness has to say, shared a note with me about how they feel inspired, heard, seen, felt and touched in their daily lives. We are all coming to our senses. But that is a post for another day.
Huh, what a little Dose will do! A little like the children’s book “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” Watch what happens with that creative spark…it turns into fire.
Now, here is an example of the creative fun I have ‘seeing’ a finished Dose out of all my potential creative options each week.
I am highly visual and I generally start with the picture. I drop it in PicMonkey and put it through the creative ringer until I land on a combination that pleases my eye. Then the words. More wrangling with text, fonts, spacing, layout and impact. Then, into Mailchimp where I then drop the image in my daily campaign and I write the copy for what “Consciousness” has to say about the wise words or quote on the poster. I then schedule the Dose to be delivered to YOU. (Unless you aren’t on the Dose yet, then head on over here and get fresh.)
My favorite part of the Dose creative process is the transformation of the image into the final poster. Hmmmmmmmmmm, not unlike the process of coaching someone and seeing them transform right before my eyes. I will likely drop YOU in the photo editor and then into a campaign for your own creative unleashing in the world…for your own dose of conscious insight. So, you may have come for the Dose, but check out the Coach.
Here are a few of my favorite Dose transformations. And indeed, the curiosity about transformation, creativity and change is what keeps my eye coming back to the page day after day after day.
This grand Gerber daisy from a bouquet from a friend became this.
The quote says, “you are brilliant and the earth is hiring.”
And this moss on the tree photo from Madison became this.
The quote says, “heroes take journeys, confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves.”
And today’s Dose? It was created last night from a photo of a stack of coasters on my sister Amy’s coffee table this weekend. I was in town visiting and noticed a bunch of “Dose fodder” at her house. I arranged the coasters thus and it became this.
So, take a moment today and find yourself as the Dose prompts.
What is the MOI in you?
Where is the fresh MOI in your day?
A little Dose will do ya.