🎥 ICYMI: I did a 30-day CREATIVITY challenge last year 🎥
🎨 30 Day Big Magic Challenge - Creating the space to create
🎨 Day 1 - In today’s fast-paced atmosphere of productivity, it can be challenging to find the time to connect with yourself. Especially this time of year, when we get busy with new routines and projects. It feels energizing and exciting now, but it’s also easy to burn out if we don’t take the time to check in now and then.
🎨 In Elizabeth Gilbert’s book “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear,” she outlines some important points about cultivating the time and space to allow creativity the opportunity to THRIVE. I was so inspired by Gilbert’s work that I created a daily appointment in my calendar called “🧚♀️Big Magic Hour.🧚♀️” During this time, I silence my phone and close my laptop, and I devote this hour to listening for INSPIRATION. I ask, “Hey, Inspiration, what would you have me do today?” I give myself permission to fully surrender to creativity during this time. Sometimes I fill the whole hour; sometimes just 10 minutes. Sometimes I draw, sing, lie on the floor, breathe, move, or journal.
🎨 The important thing is that I keep this appointment with myself every day, and I don’t punish myself if I don’t fill the whole hour. I’ve come to look forward to this time. It no longer feels like an obligation to practice - it feels like a gift I’m giving myself each day. And I always feel more energized and ready to teach/work/plan afterwards.
🎨 Will you join me in this 30 Day Big Magic Challenge?
You can buy Elizabeth Gilbert’s book here: https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/books/big-magic/
Listen to her Big Magic Lessons podcast here: https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/magic-lessons/
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