Knot doodles! After spending the morning taking visual notes, my brain needed a break, so I spent the rest of Creative Sandbox Playday doodling. 😊
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This Mantra May Sound Depressing, But It Really Helps
![Doodle icon: Trust [multiple instances of a doodle of two hands shaking, with energy rays extending out from them, with the word "trust" underneath each doodle]](https://melissadinwiddie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Doodle-trust-190116-300x300.jpg)
I woke up on Tuesday last week, got undressed to take a shower, and was horrified to see huge, red, raised welts all over my thighs, the size of miniature roadkill hamsters.
Seriously, my legs looked like topographical maps of Middle Earth.
If I had not been recently diagnosed with eczema, I probably would have had a cardiac arrest.
As it was, I had a mild panic attack, because my eczema up until that point had been limited to my face and neck, so to have it spontaneously — BAM! — erupt ALL OVER my thighs was shocking, to say the least.
“Will I be miniature-roadkill-hamster-leg-woman forever?” wondered my brain. [Read more…]
Snapshot from My Studio: January 16, 2019 at 08:48AM
Practicing icons. Or as @loosetoothcom calls them in her fabulous book, The Idea Shapers, “postage stamps.” A small image that communicates a big idea. This can be super challenging with abstract concepts! Quick: how would you draw “commitment”? Or “engagement”? Or “unity”?
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These are the types of things I’m working on coming up with my own visual vocabulary for, so I actually have an icon in my metaphorical pocket, at the ready, should the need arise. When I’m at a loss for how to start, Google image search is a great jumping off point! From there I can develop my own icon/postage stamp. And the real key, as @evalottchen says, is to draw it over and over and over—at least 50 times before you really “own” it. (Plus you have to *keep* drawing it, or trust me, you’ll forget how! 😂)
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189: Neen James & the Costs of Not Paying Attention
I first encountered Neen James at Heroic Public Speaking Live. She is pint-sized, and (as she says herself) she sounds like a five-year-old, but don’t judge a book by its cover: Neen is a font of wisdom.
Neen is the author of Folding Time™ and Attention Pays™. In 2017, she was named one of the Top 30 Leadership Speakers by Global Guru because of her work with companies like Viacom, Comcast, and Abbot Pharmaceuticals among others.
Neen has boundless energy, is quick-witted and always offers powerful strategies for paying attention to what matters so you can get more done and create more significant moments at work, and home.
Neen is the kind of speaker that engages, educates, entertains, and delivers the real-world solutions that apply in your organization, your home, and your community.
In this episode we talked about: [Read more…]
Snapshot from My Studio: January 14, 2019 at 12:21PM
Adding a few more knot doodles to this page to start the week with some creative sandbox playtime! Science shows that play is good for your brain—doing something that engages your interest is actually the BEST way to power up your willpower, so you have more FOCUS, more PATIENCE, and more ability to resist temptations and distractions! 🖍
That’s some powerful stuff. The opposite of “frivolous and self-indulgent,” wouldn’t you say?
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Know all of this, what are you doing to add a little play to your day?
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