Review: Stimulate Your Creativity with FOR YOU by Maggie Lynch

Like many of us, I love words...and I love to lose myself in a good book. But these days it seems like life moves at such a fast pace that there is little time to relax in the embrace of a good story, lost in a world of new ideas and adventures. The truth is - we're all busy. We all have to-do lists we can't possibly burn through in the time we've allotted, and as soon as one task is marked off we add another to our list until it becomes a revolving, unending, and often unmanageable mountain we race to scale at the expense of the view. The result is that we end up exhausted. Can you relate?

I knew that if I wanted that to change in 2015 I'd need to make a conscious effort to create a new routine. That's why I decided to start slowly, with author and photographer Maggie Lynch's recently released For You, a 72-page easy-to-manage paperback that combines the keen eye of a spiritual photographer and the expansive thoughts of a conscious poet.

Even better, I decided to experiment and use Maggie's book as an inspiration a day. I would focus on one photograph and its accompanying page of poetry each morning, and then try to review it at least once during the day and again before I went to sleep, just to see what impact that might have on my day. At the very least, I hoped it would help slow the typical breakneck speed with which my days often fly by. At best, well...who knew what that might be...