Critter doodles on a 3×5 card to start the day.
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Confession: I鈥檝e 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鈥檚 my Golden Formula: self-awareness + self-compassion = the key to everything good. 馃槉
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In other words, what happened? What do I want? What do I not want? What works for me? Why doesn鈥檛 work? (That鈥檚 the self-awareness piece.) Notice that I am human, forgive myself for being human (I鈥檓 not the first person to have stumbled in this way!) And how can I treat myself with the utmost gentleness, kindness, and care? (That鈥檚 the self-compassion piece.)
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Right now I鈥檓 working on figuring out a new morning routine. It鈥檚 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鈥檛 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鈥檓 golden.
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