The upper left corner is done! Small daily acts lead to completion, creative confidence, and joy. ?

What small creative act will you do today?

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Meandering. What your pen will do if you give it free rein.
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What happens if you just let your hand (or voice, or foot, or whatever part of you is doing the actual creating) take control? As if it were a horse you were riding, and you just let go of the reins?

Have you ever tried that?

If you’ve been trained in most “classical” traditions, this is SCARY! And utterly contrary to what you’re probably used to.

It’s at the heart of improvisation, though. And at the heart of my own Creative Sandbox practice, because it’s what PLAY is all about. The kind of play you used to do when you were two years old.

No concerns about doing it “right” or living up to some standards of excellence or perfection–just GO!

What emerges is not always beautiful (though sometimes it may astonish you with its beauty). The outcome of each individual creation is not important.

Over time, though, what you will discover in a body of work created in this fashion will likely teach you more about yourself and your voice than you ever thought possible.

Small, daily acts. Tiny and daily. Add enough of them together and it will change the course of your life.

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Small daily actions. That is what will build creative confidence. That is what will grow a body of work. That is what will create profound change.

Small daily actions.

If you’ve practiced meditation for any length of time you’ve experienced this.

This is how world-changing movements grow.

A “tiny and daily” creative practice is the same. Each individual effort may seem insignificant. Day to day, it may even feel pointless.

But eventually you turn around and you’ve created something that wasn’t there before.

And you realize that you are a different person than you were before.

All from small daily actions.

What small action will you take today?

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