It’s hard to get to our creative play. I’m a creativity instigator, and even I fall prey to the gremlins of “you don’t have time for this today”! Despite all good intentions (which we know pave the road to you know where!), I didn’t get any doodling in the past few days. 🖍
Hey, it happens. I know I’m not the only one. 🖍
When that happens to you, you have a couple of options: 1) beat yourself up (“You’re so lame! How could you? What a loser! I’m so ashamed!” Etc. Etc. Ad nauseum. Or 2) respond with self-compassion and love yourself up.
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#1 is perhaps the most common response, but it is NEVER helpful. I highly recommend opting for #2 instead! 🖍
The truth is, there are no creativity police. If you miss a day (or three, or fifty-seven) of your creative practice, IT’S OKAY! You get to simply start fresh! Nobody got injured or damaged. You do not need to feel guilty! You did not harm anyone! And YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Many others have experienced the same suffering before you. This is a very common human experience. YOU’RE HUMAN. And you get to love and accept yourself for your human-ness!
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Forgive yourself. Give yourself a hug, the same way you would hug and comfort a beloved 4-year-old. (You’d never berate a 4-year-old for not using her crayons for a few days, would you???) And invite yourself to play.
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Play happens when we feel invited, not when we feel guilted and pressured. Let’s take the pressure off, shall we?
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Messing around doodle — my way of getting started in the morning. It’s very easy to skip this part of my day, but getting a little creative sandbox playtime in makes such a huge difference! It fills the willpower well (your stores of patience, focus, and ability to resist temptations and distractions), boosts your mood, and simply makes the rest of your day go better! (And you call that a waste of time?!)
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What are you doing to play in the creative sandbox today?
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Theme and variations morning doodle. Doodling tells you so much about yourself. What’s your doodle style? My doodles typically have patterns of some sort. I’ll take an idea and expand on it, see where I can go with it. It’s not something I do consciously—it just happens over and over in my doodles. 😊 That’s my doodle style—my doodle personality. What’s yours?
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Knot doodles. My face is itching like CRAZY with an eczema flare-up that seemed to appear— poof! — out of the blue. Doodling is wonderfully distracting. The moment I stop, the itch just takes OVER! Gaahhhh!!! 🖍
Itching all day long must be depleting my willpower. 😜 I just ordered The Eczema Detox book. Fingers crossed 🤞 that it helps.
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Well, the tilted scaffold was not exactly the look I was going for… 😂 and the title lettering makes me cringe. But I got more imagery into this chart, which makes me really happy! 😊
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This 5th and final visual note from Creative Sandbox Retreat is from @goodlifeproject podcast. It’s a great episode, highly recommended if you want to get important stuff that requires persistent effort done. 🖍
Every chart I do is an opportunity to learn—what worked well? What could use improvement? I’m pleased I included more imagery here, and that I got all 8 Ps in without running out of space, or having a huge amount of space left over—👊. Title lettering and banner could use a LOT of improvement! And overall it feels rather messy… but bit by bit I’m climbing this mountain! Onward, ho!
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