Today’s improvisational doodle, from my most recent Instagram Story. Or what I’m now calling “Doodling as a Spiritual Practice.” 🖍
In 10 or 15 minutes in the morning I practice doing with a pen and paper what I’ve spent years learning to do (or, rather, I’m *still* learning to do) with my improv partners:
– notice more
– accept (and embrace) what’s there
– respond to *that*
– dismiss the gremlins (that’s Creative Sandbox Way™ Guidepost #8, in case you’ve been keeping track)
– not worry about whether I like it or hate it, but stay grounded in the *process* (“Think process, not product” is Guidepost #2)
– stay out of my head and be in the moment!
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Whether it’s on the page or on the stage, it’s the same process! And guess what, all those principles apply in regular life, too. If you can respond to the reality of what’s there in your regular life, you are WAY ahead of the curve! That’s one of the reasons doodling—this kind of improvisational doodling—truly is a spiritual practice. Give it a try! It has profoundly changed my life. Your mileage may vary, but it might change yours, too. 😊
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 06, 2018 at 07:43AM
Day 6 of the June Bugs creative challenge inside the Creative Sandbox Community: “flirty fireflies.”
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164: Rethinking Everything
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Confession: I’ve been going through a bit of a rough time lately.
I’ve been feeling like I want to “burn it all down,” as those of us who run our own businesses are wont to say every so often.
Running a business is hard. Trying to get everything to work, when it’s all — all of it — is unknown, uncertain, a big, ol’ experiment — is hard.
And trying to build two businesses at the same time is… well, let’s just say it’s totally mad.
Really, nobody in their right mind would do it.
And yet, here I am.
I’ve got my online community for women, the Creative Sandbox Community, which is undergoing [Read more…]
Snapshot from My Studio: June 05, 2018 at 09:13AM
Tuesday morning doodle. Live-streamed on Instagram this morning, and available for your viewing pleasure for the next 24 hours in my Instagram Story.
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 04, 2018 at 09:33AM
The latest in the adventures of Doodlebot. Watch how this doodle was made in my Instagram Story—available for your viewing pleasure by clicking on my Instagram avatar for the next 24 hours only! 😊
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