Snapshot from My Studio: September 22, 2019 at 08:29AM

Critter doodles on a 3×5 card to start the day.
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Confession: I’ve been struggling to get some art into my days for the past several months. Yes, it happens to creativity instigators just like everyone else. I took a course that threw off my morning routine back in April, and have been having a devil of a time resynching it. Daily creative sandbox time was part of my morning ritual, and when that finely tuned morning ritual was pulled apart, everything went to $#!@.
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This is reality. Humans are, well, human. Life happens. We stumble. We fall off the beautiful wagons we build for ourselves. THAT is not actually the problem. The problem is beating ourselves up for falling off, and not getting back on.
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The solution? As always, it’s my Golden Formula: self-awareness + self-compassion = the key to everything good. 😊
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In other words, what happened? What do I want? What do I not want? What works for me? Why doesn’t work? (That’s the self-awareness piece.) Notice that I am human, forgive myself for being human (I’m not the first person to have stumbled in this way!) And how can I treat myself with the utmost gentleness, kindness, and care? (That’s the self-compassion piece.)
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Right now I’m working on figuring out a new morning routine. It’s going to take awhile to get it right, I know that. Trial and error. But I also know that getting creative sandbox time in there is ESSENTIAL to my health and happiness. This is progress.
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I will stumble again. This I know. I will fall off the wagon many times. But that doesn’t worry me. Because the most important practice is simply getting back ON the wagon. With gentleness and great self-compassion. If I can do that, I’m golden.
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