Creative Genius YOU: Challenge Tip 12

Let's Get Launching!

You know what, I can't believe we are in Challenge Tip 12 already!

Our 12 weeks - 3 months have just flown bye!

I feel sad - yet happy that we are here at launch week.

This Challenge course started spontaneously - as do most my ventures.

My aim was to help newbies to unleash their creative juices and make them more confident to live a more creative life in 2014.

I honestly and truly hope you have enjoyed the exercises each week and are now at the stage to launch your masterpiece-in-the-making service or product.

If you're a veteran creative soul then I also hope you had a few new things to learn.

Teachers are always students first and will always be students and learning.

So let's get to it! :)

Challenge Tip 12

Let's Get Launching!

You are now ready to launch your masterpiece service or product.

You need to be brave and courageous!

You are brave and courageous!

You may have a billion questions and thoughts running riots in your head right now - but listen, YOU deserve THIS as you have worked hard and shown up every week to the Academy for your new lesson - your new weekly challenge.

You have stepped out of your comfort zone and believed in yourself and tried some new and crazy stuff - and you've enjoyed it and learnt lots.

It may seem daunting and scary - don't worry as that is completely natural and we all feel it - yes me too - but you've done the hard work.

Get your service and product out there now and focus on marketing and advertising it.

Use both online and offline methods to market it.

Use all the free social media available.

Let your random souls know you have launched (the same random souls who helped and gave you feedback).

Let them help you spread the word.

It may be slow or it may make you an overnight superstar - anything is possible.

The key is to stay in faith and continue to believe.

This is the first step in many in your creative missions to help you live a more creative life now.

I can feel your excitement - it's contagious! :D

Go ahead now and launch your masterpiece product and service and keep me in the loop and let me know how it goes for you!

I want to thank you for turning up each week to the Academy and taking on the challenge.

I have absolutely loved it and have learnt lots too!

Who knows what my spontaneousness brings next to the Academy - but keep it locked here and let all your friends know!

Go launch it now and best wishes! :)

Creative Genius YOU: Challenge Tip 11

Let's Get Testing, Evaluating, Reviewing!

 

This is our final week for testing, evaluating and reviewing.

I hope you're looking forward to releasing your product or service to the world! :)

I also hope that each week has provided you with new ideas and ways to be creative.

One of the keys to being more creative is to keep an open mind - this allows us to absorb different things that happen during the day and a chance to see it through different lens.

You could also ask yourself questions such as; 'What if it was this way?' or 'What if it was this colour or shape?' And see the awesome answers you get!

Be free to explore - that's another key and the third key is that there's never a wrong answer.

So go ahead and explore and let your creative juices flow!

Challenge Tip 11

Let's Get Testing, Evaluating and Reviewing!

This is your second and final phase for testing, evaluating and reviewing.

It is not limited to two processes only - we're doing it like this because of the nature of this Challenge and keeping in mind that it is for 12 weeks only.

This process can repeat many times depending on the project you're working on.

So from the previous process you would have made the necessary changes, edits, deletions, additions etc.

Now this week put your product or service masterpiece-in-the-making to the public test again.

Remember those random souls that you asked last time and got feedback from?

Yup, go to them again - or now you may even be more confident to ask your loved ones.

Go go, be brave! :)

If there any more additions or deletions - again depending on what you're working on - then go ahead and make those changes this week.

An example from my eBook project would be the proofreading and style - that would be my testing, evaluating and reviewing.

So have a look at where things need to be added or deleted and go work on them this week and then we'll be ready to launch your masterpiece-in-the-making next week.

Also remember to journal your test results, the evaluations and the review.

This will help you in your future projects as you'll have a reference point to look back to when you need help.

Have fun and remember to smile - this is all a learning process and all feedback is positive feedback - we will always be learning and everyone sees things from their own perspective.

Remember, it's all good!

Now go have an awesome week making the final changes and be ready for your BIG DAY! :)

Creative Genius YOU: Challenge Tip 10

Let's Get Reviewing!

We're almost at launch date.

Can you feel those nerves?

I mean, think about it, you're almost ready to launch your service or product!

I know I'm kinds nervous - I have an eBook to launch remember!

OK, so today's Challenge is to go back to week one and begin again.

WHAT?!?!

No, no - don't worry - I don't want you to start from scratch - unless you have just joined us today and you're a bit lost and thinking what this challenge is about - just go to week one and begin.

I want you to review the entire challenge - or course, if you may, up til now.

It'll help you see and realise how far you've come - which it like totally awesome - and it'll help you jog your memory or go through/continue with some of the previous challenge tips - like for instance pinteresting or googling - remember them?

Exactly.

It's good to have a pause and reflect and review.

So that is exactly what we will do today.

Make sure you have your journal and pen/pencil (with the rubber on the end) or your online device to review your notes or take further notes.

Challenge Tip 10

Let's Get Reviewing!

As we can see reviews are really important in any creative process or endevour.

So many things will come up for you that you may have initially missed or overlooked and as we set about unleashing our creative juices we will always be coming up with new ideas.

Go ahead and review your masterpiece-in-the-making and see what you have learnt so far, what can you add to make it better, what can be changed, added or deleted, what feedback did you get from random souls when you asked them for feedback, what is it that people want and are craving for, how can you satisfy their need with your product or service...

Go through the entire challenge and re-read it each day (one challenge tip each day) and see if you can add, change or delete anything.

Fear nada - all the 9 weeks are right below this post! :)

That's all i want you to focus on for this week - i mean you are re-checking each challenge each day so it's kind of an intensive review session but i know you can hack it!

Remember though, creative geniuses are always coming up with ideas and ways of improving their service or product so keep that journal handy - you never know when you jump outa bed at 3am with a new idea! :)

See you next week for Challenge Tip 11!

Creative Genius YOU: Challenge Tip 9

Let's Get Feedbacking

It's week 9 y'all!!!

Thank you for being part of this Challenge and coming back each week for your next challenge lesson.

We're almost at the end of the challenge and almost ready to launch our product or service (and you have been working on it each week with me haven't you? Hmmm!).

Listen, it's a great way to get out your comfort zone and actually try it - it will give you the confidence to keep continuing - and I'm right here for you!

So before we continue with this weeks challenge I want to give you a heads up on what's coming up in the next few weeks.

In week 10 (next week) we will be reviewing the whole challenge course and seeing what we have learnt. In week 11 we will do our final testing, evaluating, reviewing and then week 12 - our final challenge week - we will launch our product or service! 

Hope you're gearing up for it - as i sure am!

And if you are new to this Academy and this challenge then no worries you can start on the first challenge (just scroll down) and begin.

Right, let's get out teeth into this weeks challenge then!

Challenge Tip 9

Let's Get Feedbacking!

OK, so, from last week's Challenge Tip, did you put yourself out there? Like, literally?

Did you ask your family and friends for some feedback?

Did you approach some random souls and ask for their feedback?

Feedback is good for us!

You may feel that you're not ready for feedback, especially if you're a newbie to unleashing your creative juices and that is absolutely cool - i totally respect that!

I know how painful it can be, especially when you have put your heart and soul into it.

However, again, it's that 'take the first step' moment.

You need to put yourself out there to know what works and what doesn't.

And if you are working on a product or service for others then you need to know if they will resonate with it and if the will buy it or use your service.

Getting feedback will also help you make any changes, additions or deletions and we need to do this now as we're almost to our launch date.

Take the feedback and ignore the hateful words (if there are any) as whoever comes back with hateful words is acting from a place of ego (just the way we are afraid of putting ourself out there - that is also ego).

So, look at all your feedback and get tweaking your 'masterpiece-in-the-making'.

You can also use this week to get feedback and evaluate (if you haven't done it already) and smile whilst working on your project - it'll make you happy!

Right, that's your homework for this week - to further evaluate and get feedback and then make any necessary changes and I'll see YOU right back here next week for our next Challenge Tip!

In the meantime remember to like, comment and share! :)