What is The Artist Way? 🎨
It is a book that takes you on a twelve week course of recovery through a spiritual approach to unblocking your creativity. It has you do three things every week.
The Morning Pages. 📒
Everyday when you wake up. Three pages of free streaming awaking thought, to get out of your system and not to be read.
The Artist Date. 💖
A solo date once a week with ourselves, for the deration of the course, to encourage creativity.
Tasks. 🌟
Each week has various tasks to finish that explores are wounded selves as well and strengthens our sense of Faith in the world and ourselves. By dealing with the parts of ourselves that we don't want to look at, the very things that helped create those blocks within us we can open ourselves up to be creative. We are all creative, this is what being human truly is.
In attempt to finish the course (I just did the first week on previous attempt) I have upgraded my approach two ways.
ONE :Told all of you about it to create public accountability.
TWO : Created a calendar to help me do a little each day by braking up this weeks Tasks and The Artist Date so that each morning I can pick a square and accomplish it that day. I didn't add days or numbers on the squares so I didn't feel tied down or chained to a rigid schedule. I have a hard time with "in stone" schedules, and days planed weeks ahead of time. I think this Soft Schedule is a good approach.
If anyone would find this calendar helpful while doing The Artist's Way, feel free to use it 😊