More doodlebots!
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Snapshot from My Studio: October 28, 2017 at 10:48AM
More cuties! Doodlebots? This doodle is dedicated to Fran Oglesby, Daniel Strauss, Laurie Fischer, Anna Goldsworthy, Cara Viva Iacovetta, and LaVonne Ellis—thank you for donating to my birthday fundraiser!
More doodles coming, and if you donate to my birthday fundraiser I’ll dedicate a doodle to YOU! ?
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Snapshot from My Studio: October 27, 2017 at 10:10AM
These cuties showed up in this morning’s doodle session! You just never know what will happen in the Creative Sandbox. That’s part of the fun. ?
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Snapshot from My Studio: October 26, 2017 at 09:28AM
Wacky doodle made in this morning’s Doodlecam, which was all about how to get past fear of the blank page. Or fear of starting, really.
Because before you start, your “canvas” is pristine—perfection itself! How can you possibly improve on that?
No wonder we’re so afraid to start!
My solution to fear of the blank page? Make it un-blank!
Seriously! Just do something! Anything! (That’s Guidepost #5 of my Creative Sandbox Way, btw: “Just start. Anywhere.” ?) It’s magical what happens when you just start. When you let it be CRAP.
I will literally make a SCRIBBLE on that pristine, blank page, in order to get over the fear of it!
Now I can’t have fear of the blank page anymore! I can have fear of a scribble, but not of the blank page.
Now all I have to do is respond to the scribble—to whatever is in front of me—which is so much easier than trying to come up with brilliance to fill a blank page!
You can watch the full Doodlecam on my Facebook page, and watch/listen as I draw this doodle in a Flow State.
It’s not about the outcome, but about your internal state, and what creating does for you.
Go get creating!
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LCN 132: A Gentle Reminder that Falling Off the Wagon Is Not the Problem
Last week I was out of the country, in beautiful Whistler, British Columbia, getting 40 hours of training in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methods and materials.
What is LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®? It’s an amazing methodology with a wide range of applications that yes, uses LEGO® bricks, to get people thinking with their hands.
I first encountered LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® at a one-day workshop at the Creative Problem Solving Institute, an annual conference in Buffalo, New York, last June, and I was so blown away by that experience that I signed up for the advanced certification in the methodology with Master Trainer, Jacquie Lloyd Smith, of Strategic Play® (tell her I sent you!).
(If you’d like to hear more about LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, I had Jacquie on the podcast recently, episode 128, so check that out.)
Anyway, this episode isn’t about LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, although that was the entire focus of my last week, and I could happily talk about it for hours.
What I want to talk about is the byproduct of that: falling off the wagon.
Because I was so intensely focused on my training, and on connecting with the other people in my classes when we weren’t in class, that my daily doodles just flew out the window. [Read more…]
