How was last week for you?
1. How many days did you do your morning pages?
2. did you do your artist date this week?
3. Were there any other issues this week? Please comment on this tribe, as well!
Let's hear from everyone this week, okay? I think we all need to feel a sense of group involvement here. Thanks!
1. How many days did you do your morning pages?
2. did you do your artist date this week?
3. Were there any other issues this week? Please comment on this tribe, as well!
Let's hear from everyone this week, okay? I think we all need to feel a sense of group involvement here. Thanks!
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Re: w2: Check-in
Mon, February 16, 2004 - 10:14 PMI had something happen this week that seemed out of place until I remembered what this chapter was about. I received communication from a real life friend who blasted just about every aspect of my life and how I was doing it all wrong.
This hasn't happened in a very long time.
I then remembered how the chapter talks about "crazymakers." I was beebopping along thinking that I had rid myself of all of them last year. Apparently not.
It felt like clear confirmation that I am on the right path! -
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Re: w2: Check-in
Mon, February 16, 2004 - 10:17 PMwoohoo! i love those kinds of moments! this book pulls some amazing stuff out of us, doesn't it?
good for you!
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Re: w2: Check-in
Tue, February 17, 2004 - 2:11 PMI have been doing my morning pages about every other day. I also made good on my promise to make a space for my sewing machine and for sewing projects, although it came a week late. Hey, some progress is better than none!
I'm having a hard time picking up the book. I've done Artist's Way before, so I know what the book says for the most part, but feel somehow intimidated by the knowledge of the work required, and as it piles up and I get further and further behind.
How do you guys deal with the guilt of not getting everything done, and not let it get in the way of your continuation? -
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Re: w2: Check-in
Tue, February 17, 2004 - 5:55 PMI have been having a hard time doing the workbook. I felt that I had already grappled with these issues before, and nothing new was coming to light. Rereading the chapters was almost boring and uninspiring. So, just to get it done and meet my commitment, I put down the same thoughts as I had the last time. No pressure to come up with original insights into my childhood, etc. Gets the exercises done and I am free for the week! Then, Bingo! Week Three is really hitting home for me, so I am glad that I slogged through the first two weeks. Perhaps next week will be back to slogging, but I won't give up. I may run into another Bingo! moment somewhere down the line.
Yes, I am short on time, yes, I am hustling through the workbook... but I think the point is to progress each week. I think there is something important about making the commitment to give ourselves some focus for 12 weeks. Minimum effort and meeting a commitment is a lot to accomplish, so I am already patting myself on the back and envisioning myself at the end of three months.
It is not really a lot of time:
Morning pages = 1.75 hrs/week
Artist date = 2 hrs/week
Chapter/exercises = 2 hrs/week
Checkin: .25 hrs/week
Total time = 72 total hours.
Total experience = Priceless. -
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Re: w2: Check-in
Thu, February 19, 2004 - 3:08 PMThank you for that insight into "slogging". I've felt the same thing... reading the book doesnt' inspire me to come up with new things. However, I *have* kept up with the morning pages and the artist's date. Week 2 I spent about an hour in town on Saturday morning. I parked my truck and played "tourist" with my camera and explored the new antique shop on the corner and ended up in the little coffee shop watching the traffic go by.
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Re: w2: Check-in
Tue, February 17, 2004 - 7:58 PMI haven't gotten very much "done" bookwise, or morning pages wise. I think the biggest thing for me this time is that I don't carry as much guilt about it as I used to. As an expert in guilt, (I have a Jewish Mother) I know that guilt serves no useful purpose, except to stifle you.
Now, all that means absolutely SQUAT when I am feeling guilty and making choices as a result of guilt. I have to go deep inside and find out why I feel that way, really let myself feel it, and then let it go.
Today I randomly opened "Women Who Run With The Wolves" to a page that said: Negative psychological complexes rear up to question your worth, your intention, your sincerity, and your talent." (Page 332) The chapter goes on to talk about how we sabotage ourselves in millions of ways, and what we can do to stay clear of most of that.
TAW talks a lot about synchronicity. This was another one for me for sure.
Feel your guilt, look at it, welcome it, love it, and then let it go.
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