Day 15: reframing discipline 💪
You've got this.
Hello, Creatives!
Congratulations on making it two weeks into #The100DayProject! Remember that these weekly reviews are your chance to reflect and revise – every day is a new opportunity. Take what worked for you from the past week and keep going.
Recap and reflect:
How many days did you do your project this week?
What’s giving you energy?
What was difficult for you this week?
What can you celebrate this week?
What are your goals or commitments for this coming week?
Share your work with the community:
Thanks to everyone who has submitted an image for our weekly Reels! Starting this week, we’re also taking short video submissions 🎥
Our theme this week is showing up.
So often we treat discipline as punishment instead of what it can also be: practice. As we move into Week 3 of #The100DayProject,
What is your relationship with discipline?
When it comes to discipline, what attitudes or ideas would you like to let go of and which would you like to cultivate?
What has helped you show up and be consistent in past projects or efforts?
How might you apply what works for you to your current project?
KEEP GOING! (Did I already say that?! 😉 )
XO,
Lindsay
P.S. Our next live event is an Enneagram Workshop for Creatives with Jenna Starkey 🧠
Last week, we worked on developing the creative mindset. Here’s what you might have missed:
giving ourselves permission to create 💪
getting comfortable with the great unknown 😶🌫️
accessing our intuition ✨
defining what good actually means 👏
getting into the creative state of mind 💡
expanding our life force⚡️
Discipline is pretty loaded word - I associate it with my sports coaches coming up through rec leagues in soccer which culminated in my quitting the sport in high school. I associate it with "will power" and pushing through and grinding it out, all things I left behind when corporate burnout made me reconsider and reevaluate all of my priorities 15 years ago.
So I am swapping commitment into the place of discipline; this is a 100 day commitment, one day at a time. In other parts of my life, when I make it easy to set up a streak, I have set low levels of commitment that I can meet on days when I am not feeling it. It's amazing what five minutes of knitting can do.
I've already seen where making the guideline that #fiveminutesisgoodenough gives me the flexibility to do it even if I am not feeling it. I was definitely not feeling it yesterday after cleaning out half a garage storage and then sitting on two hours on Zoom calls last night. But, five minutes is easy enough and I found myself finishing five rows.
I also think giving myself the space this week to do a full week recap on Saturday has been such a blessing. I am still taking pictures of my work, but I am less worried about what I should say. It's giving me the space to think of witty captions on the seven hour drive home on Saturday.
I am loving these prompts - so helpful to keep me engaged with this project! Thank you Lindsay!
So part of my reframing discipline is not wanting to associate with that word because for me it has a long history associated with listening to others over myself about what I "should" be doing & not trusting myself (maybe one day I'll want to reclaim it, but definitely not in that space now!) however a similar word I have recently reconciled with is consistently, when I learned that actually definition is around repeated effort/action rather than anything to do with regular timing of that effort/action has helped me see I am consistent.
So I think for me it's really about listening to myself, understanding where I want to show up for myself consistently in my life & finding a way to do it that works for me, and I think that's something I've really been able to practice & build on by doing the 100 day project these past few years.