Today is the first day of #The100DaypProject! I just love the enthusiasm of a new beginning, don’t you?
At the beginning of every year, I set a theme to guide me. The idea of the theme is that it’s not really a goal or a resolution, more a direction or energy. A way of being. Less “write 1000 pages” and more “generative”, for example.
As we get started, what are you looking forward to about your project this year? What might your theme for your project be this year?
If nothing comes to mind (or too many things!), give yourself a week or two to feel it out. We are, after all, just getting started. It’s ok not to know yet.
Here are a few prompts to get you going:
How do you want to feel about your project?
What’s something that might help you keep the enthusiasm of a new beginning throughout your project?
What are the first few things that come to you? Write them down, leave them out for a bit, and then come back in a few days and see what sticks with you.
Remember: the rules are made up. The important thing is to show up – in a way that is meaningful and sustainable for you – a bit every day.
Let’s go create!
XO,
I started my trio-based project today with writing (an imagined narrative between my grandfather, LeRoy Dale Allen, and his mother on the day she sent him to the McCune Home for Boys); tomorrow, I paint a more realistic moon than I have tried before. The theme is Same Moon Shining, which is the title of my book about family estrangement. The title comes from a letter another of my grandfathe'rs, my mother's father (Oscar Moon). He wrote to my grandmother while lying on his army bunk in 1945 that he felt so far away from all he had in the world, but he knew the same moon was shining on both of them. I didn't know LeRoy Allen (dad's biological father) or Clinton Shelton (his adoptive father), but I have done a lot of research and am writing about it all. So...long story short, I have three grandfathers on my mind as I start this project. Let's hope they send me something of their spirits and bless my creative work.
My theme is to do something related to painting, drawing, or writing each day, with the goal of being more improved at the end of the 100 days. It might even be something like watching a tutorial or video.