20 minutes on the Doodlecam may only add a few more inches to the page, but it feels like it opens up miles of space inside my soul.

That’s the power of the Creative Sandbox, and of following the Creative Sandbox Way Guideposts. Something shifts inside you.
Call it mood. Call it neurobiology. Call it spirituality. Call it magic.

The fact is, doing your creative thing is POWERFUL JUJU.

There’s a reason you’re drawn to it. There’s a reason you want it so badly. (There’s also a reason you resist it: it’s called fear. The way past the fear? That’s what my book, The Creative Sandbox Way, is all about.) Those 20 minutes and few inches of doodles feel like they’ve transformed me on a cellular level. THAT is why I doodle.

Why do you do your creative thing?

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Late afternoon doodle time today. This morning I got a much-needed workout in, then after that I worked on a speech that I’ve got coming up at a couple of different gigs in March.
I was going to take a well-deserved nap or read a novel on the couch afterwards, but instead I did a little afternoon doodling.

Ah. Now I feel a lot better. (Though I could still use a nap. ?) Creative Sandbox Playtime cures what ails you and restores your energy. It is never self-indulgent to do something that restores your energy.
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Detail from the Friday Morning Doodlecam. There were some moments there when I truly let go of my Perfectionist Gremlin and all thoughts of the outcome and was in pure Creative Sandbox play mode.

That is the GOAL at all times when I’m doodling, but of course it doesn’t always work that way.

Just like in breath meditation, where the intention is to focus on the breath, but your attention invariably goes bounding off into a thought, and your job is to gently bring it back to your breath… In the Creative Sandbox, when I’m doodling or otherwise creating, my intention is to focus on the process (Creative Sandbox Way Guidepost #2: “Think process, not product”), but of course my attention will get caught up in “is this any good?” Because I’m human, and I have taste, and I want to make things that please me!

This is normal!

My job is to gently bring my attention back to the process, and to remind myself that I’m playing in the Creative Sandbox where there is no wrong (Creative Sandbox Way Guidepost #1: “There is no wrong.”) It’s always fun to notice when I’m really IN that Creative Sandbox space and reveling in it. ?

It’s a practice. And the more you do it, the better you get at it.

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I’ve got a 9am interview, so no time for the Doodlecam this morning, but just enough time for some more critter doodles! These doodles delight me no end!

I tell you, find something to create in fifteen minutes or so that tickles and delights you, because there is NOTHING like starting your day by delighting yourself in the Creative Sandbox!

The whole rest of your day goes better. ?

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Another day, another doodle, another Doodlecam! Today I did more critter doodles, starting out as blobs, that turn into critters.

Don’t think, just draw a blob, then figure out where eyes might go. Maybe ears? Antennae? Feathers? A mouth?

Often these critters delight me. Sometimes they make me laugh out loud.

This is Creative Sandbox play at its best! It feeds you, fills you up, gives you a burst of happiness and joy.

Will it impress anyone? Who knows, and who cares!

It’s purpose is to feed YOU!

As long as it does that, it’s serving its true purpose, and its value is GOLDEN!

Go get creating!

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