LAST Submission Request!
Share your art for our 10th and final Reel of the year!
Dear Ones,
Here’s the final link for submitting your art to @dothe100dayproject reels this year. Please share something you’ve created at ANY point over the past 100 days! And if you’re still too nervous to submit, please remember that nervous can just be excitement without the breath. *inhale. exhale*
And here is a final love note from me:
I am really fortunate to spend my days in coaching sessions with individuals and small businesses. I take copious notes throughout the week, and enjoy looking for trends across my client base, marveling at all the ways in which (despite our many differences) we truly have a shared humanity. A few things we’ve been unpacking quite a bit recently that I offer to y’all as a parting bit of food for thought…
1. Permission. Permission to accept what is, instead of what we'd hoped for, is a pathway of surrender. And in surrender, there are actually more possibilities on how to move forward. Did your project unfold differently from how you intended/imagined? How might you be suffering in a space of non-acceptance? Surrender is not giving up. It is giving over. Surrender is a form of detachment. It is neither kind, nor unkind. Surrender is freedom, and peace. It’s space, wide open, beckoning us onward versus remaining small and stuck in the same maddening loops. It takes self-granted permission to flow onward. Please give yourself, and your art, this gift.
2. The stories we make up. This is another way of trying to keep ourselves and loved ones "safe" - by making up all the possible faulty scenarios in our minds, to try and solve them before anything has even happened! I think this can be true in the space of our creativity, too. We don't know what we don't know. Period. Living & creating our way to the answers is a natural way of learning and growing. Mentally practicing all the ways that something can go "wrong" doesn't ultimately protect us or anyone else, it just causes us to suffer more than once. When you feel your mind start to spiral about your artistry, ask yourself "What is the story I am making up? How does this serve me? Do I want to hang onto this feeling it creates?"
3. Multiple things can be true at once. Yes, there are manymanymany people in the world creating art. And, there is still room for you. Yes, some folks are further along in their creative paths. And, there is still time for you. Yes, there are artists making a livable wage from their creations. And, this does not have to define the value of your own work. Yes, it is vulnerable to share things you have made. And, as Brené Brown says, “Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity.”
In Gratitude,