She believed she could, so she's trying

Creativity by word, picture, thought, this is Carly.

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30 day sketch challenge Day 2: The Good Sketch

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30 day sketch challenge Day 1: snapchat tomato filter

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Self Self Help

I am a work in progress. I know I’m not my best self yet, and I am constantly working on improving. The problem, I get in my own way a lot. I can’t stick to a plan and I have no will power when I’m stressed. My coping mechanism is that of an ostrich:

I bury my head and I don’t deal. As you can imagine, this is not great for personal growth in any part of my life. How do you self help when you can’t get your self to help. New months are always full of potential, so with this June 1st I am holding myself accountable. For June I will: 

Draw SOMETHING every day

Some form of working out 4 times a week

Blog or journal at least 2 times a week.

Meditate every day

Read more than I watch

I have 146 days until my 30th birthday, and while my friend, Aaliyah, told me, “age ain’t nothing but a number,” I want to make them count. If I can commit to this goal for the next 30 days, I have faith that the remaining 116 will only get better. 

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Wait for it...

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Self portrait 2015

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My shot

Ok, let’s talk Hamilton. The musical of the year. Musical of the decade. The show has been in my life for just over 6 months, but I can’t seem to remember my life before it. Melodramatic? Probably. This is musical theater we’re talking about. 

There have been musicals I love, tv shows I love, music I love, books I love, but the trick is getting someone else to see what you see in the things you love so much. You don’t always win. Everyone’s tastes are different. Once I started talking about Hamilton to my friends and family, I was adamant that they needed to hear it (probably on an annoying level). There was always that fear moment, “what if they didn’t like it as much as I built it up?” Every single person who took the time to sit and listen or go see this show live, came back with the same amazement. Regular theater fan or some who hates musicals, not one person has said they didn’t like it. 

This past winter I treated myself to an overpriced ticket to see it live on Broadway. Sitting in that theater I loved it more than I could ever by just listening to the recording. The talent in the writing, the talent on stage. The messages that connect to our pop culture, current social issues, personal demons, love and heartbreak. It’s no surprise that millions of people have become obsessed with this show and this cast, many of them making their Broadway debuts.

For me personally, there is one more reason why I love this show so much. Why I can’t stop listening to it. Why I would easily spend hundreds of dollars to see it again. It has given me something that is hard to find, hard to make tangible as we get older. Childlike wonder, childlike joy. The first time you go to Disney World. The first time you see *NSync in concert. I’ve always been a lover of musicals, I often get emotionally attached to songs and characters. As a “theater nerd” my friends and I would get together and sing musical soundtracks together, and these are some of my favorite and cherished childhood memories. The last show I really connected with was Wicked in 2004, when I was a senior is high school.  In the last decade there hasn’t been a lot that gets me excited, a lot of that inspires me as a creator. Hamilton gave me that awe, that inspiration, that joy that I was missing. This show is truly so special to me and not just in a “I love theater!” sort of way. When Beliebers inexplicably cry when meeting Justin....it’s kinda like that. Although unlike those teenage girls, this is a feeling I hope I never grow out of.

“This is not a moment, it’s the movement”

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People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Timothy Ferriss

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Fear isn't a thing, it is what happens when we don't bring the love.

Waking up with Ryan