The Artist's Way: Workbook: A Companion to the International Bestseller

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Sometimes it is our expectations that has created a drought. We have to watch for delusions such as fame and external validation which are often short-cut to self-approval. “The desire to be better than can choke off the desire to be,” writes Julia. I logged my anxious thoughts for one day and it was helpful for staying focused on the task at hand – redoing my chapter outline for the book. It hurts, but the antidote to the pain of letting go is opening up to what delight there is in your life. We spend energy on self-doubt, self-hatred, regret, grief, jealousy and think in terms of great big scary impossible tasks. When we are clear about who we are and what we are doing, the energy flows freely and we experience no strain,” writes Julia.

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We learn by going where we have to go. Exercise is often the going that moves us from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect. We learn we are stronger than we thought. We learn to look at things with a new perspective. We learn to solve our problems by tapping our own inner resources and listening for inspiration, not only from others but from ourselves. Seemingly without effort, our answers come while we swim or strike or ride or run. By definition, this is one of the fruits of exercise: the act of bringing into play or realising in action,” writes Julia. Very often, when we cannot seem to find an adequate supply it is because we are insisting on a particular human source of supply,” writes Julia. We cannot obsess over how we will make something happen, we just need to say what we are doing, and take action. “Action has magic so simply begin,” writes Julia.My high expectations and lofty plans often mean that I want to leap over the small, incremental steps and dive straight into the impossible tasks. “The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce at all,” she writes. What we really want to do is what we are meant to do,” writes Julia. Why do I so often deny myself the luxury to do what it is I want to do? When we start with joy, the discipline will follow. The question bubbles up again – what do I enjoy? What do I desire? Why does this continue to elude me? This week felt like a lot of question-asking and meetings, but no step taking. Does this mean I am searching for the joy? Week 10: overwork v. zestful work The Israel-Hamas Tunnel War Will Be Like No Other The Israel-Hamas Tunnel War Will Be Like No Other

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It can difficult to say no, especially to people we love, but it’s an important practice. “Many recovering creatives sabotage themselves most frequently by making nice,” as Julia writes. Work begets work and taking one small step in action instead of indulging in the big questions can help us further along. Week 9: Fear is not laziness There is no longer a fantasy of what could, would or should be with this person, no longer an addiction to the fantasy. The day after things ended between myself and my ‘crazymaker’ for the second time, I get a cold – what Julia describes as a Kriya, or “the bad case of the flu right after you’ve broken up with your love. It’s the rotten head cold and bronchial cough that announces you’ve abused your health to meet an unreachable work deadline.”

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So many of this week’s lessons resonate with what I’ve unearthed in the conversations I’ve had with creatives and own personal principles – creativity’s chief need is support and the key is to keep trying and experimenting. It’s interesting, to finish a book I’ve heard time and time again will change your life, and to not feel completely drastically changed. My book proposal is still being reworked, the podcast is still just in the pipeline, and I’m still unsure about what truly, deeply, delights me. As Julia writes, “Any regular, repeatable action primes the well” and for me the seemingly non-creative act of running puts me into step with myself. Each time I tell myself I will run and then I take action and do it, I am building self-respect, which comes from doing the work.

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I want to watch for what delights me, I want to be alive to joy, I want to pay attention, I want to experiment and see if Julia Cameron’s resounding message is true. It’s the final chapter of the book and I have arrived in New York City with the intention of setting aside three months to work on the personal projects that I have carried with me the last few months – the podcast and the book. Rather than a tool for vanity, exercise teaches us about the rewards of the process, not the outcome.Often planning for me is a symptom of perfectionism, which we can have false ideas about. “Perfectionism is not a quest for the best, but a pursuit of the worst in ourselves.” What do we do when we are in the drought? We stumble through because it is “the time in the desert brings us clarity.” I’ve also learned that the goal is not the point, it’s the running. Once I reached 5km, the treadmill did not evaporate – opportunity to keep running, keep taking strides remained. I can easily put things into the “impossible” category, but as this week explored, often something is impossible only because we are looking too ahead or too narrowly at the things we desire. I open up the first test podcast and begin to stumble through the editing software I have no experience with. I judge it as bad, unworkable, and un-shareable – I still have a long way to go with my perfectionism it seems. Week 8: Real change occurs in tiny increments