Week 8 in The Artist’s Way focuses on recovering a sense of strength. One of the things we need to do is acknowledge and mourn our artistic losses. Cameron says that avoiding it causes artistic scar tissue. And that prevents artistic growth. Most of us shrug off our artistic misfires. We don’t openly mourn the…
I mentioned my daughter’s 30 by 30 list last week. And I was going to come up with my own list. My 30 by 65. Although, it would actually be my 30 by 66, since I’ll be 61 in a month. Let’s call it “My Five Year Plan.” Coming up with 30 things wasn’t as…
This week’s work is on recovering a sense of connection. It’s not only our connection to those around us and the environment. It’s our connection to everything. Cameron tells us that our Morning Pages and Artist Dates are teaching us to listen. The Morning Pages encourage us to listen past our internal censor. It’s a…
I’m still taking much longer than a week to complete the weekly exercises. But keep moving forward, right? I find that I continue to build momentum even though it’s slow. This week’s focus is on recovering a sense of Possibility. Cameron wants you to lean into your relationship with the Creator. Or the Universe. Or…
I’m writing this a few months after the fact. But like the “week” before, it took me more than seven days to finish my exercises from week three of The Artist’s Way. Part of me was tempted to start over and try to do the work in a week but I decided to keep moving…
My second “week” of The Artist’s Way took longer than a week… Just like the first “week”. It’s not that it took so long to do the exercises. It took me a while to do the check-in. Not this blog post, but the check-in exercise that’s part of the program. I’m not sure why. I…
I noticed it a few years ago. I had to push myself to create. Guilt myself into writing. Or impose a deadline by having to produce something by a specific date. It felt like my creative fire had gone out. And then the pandemic hit and I thought I would have the time or motivation…
I was going through my notes from Seth Godin’s Marketing seminar and found a link to a blog post of his from 2009. It’s called “Guy #3”. The post has a link to a video from the Sasquatch music festival and shows a spontaneous dance mob forming. Seth’s point is that until Guy #3 joined…
This was a productive week for me. I’m surprised. I accomplished many things that have been on my to do list for weeks. How did I manage this great feat? Simple. I stopped thinking so much. Don’t get me wrong. Thinking is important. More people should do it. But I think too much. I suspect…
I was thinking about Seth Godin and what he says about writer’s block. He says he writes how he speaks, and that people rarely have trouble talking. We don’t suffer from Talker’s Block. There might be a silence or pause here and there, but conversation flows. For some reason, when there’s a blank piece of…
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