Committed

Sometimes you just know when you are committed to do something. It doesn't really matter if you sign a contract or not because you just know you are committed. That was the way I was feeling about the AW contract. Also, I tend to go into black and white thinking and the second half of Cameron's contract was all about exercise, eating well, and sleeping. So I would read that part, and think now on top of focusing on my creative life, I now have to overhaul my health plan. I literally would go to the extreme and say to myself I must lose weight and start a regular aerobic exercise routine and don't forget all that bone building strength training and cut out junk food and eat more veggies and go to more yoga classes.......UGH! In my mind it would become this life altering full on 24/7 job of self care. I had trouble looking at it in terms of babysteps.

Well, yesterday I was listening to Hay House Radio. Cheryl Richardson reminded me of Sark's inspiration on this - which is micromovements. Sark writes in her book MakeYour Creative Dreams Real , "A micromovement is 5 seconds to 5 minutes long because we can do just about anything for 5 seconds to 5 minutes. You may begin and complete your micromovement and suddenly feel energized to continue on." I don't have to overhaul my self care in order to do the artist's way. I can approach it with micromovements or babysteps. Small changes that you hardly notice yet when done regularly can give you a real sense of accomplishment. This applies of course to my creative work too.
Something that gets in the way of my clay work is I feel the burden of the whole project from the wet clay start to the final glaze firing and oh what if I make a mistake then what do I do with it? I may need to start doing the clay work in little micromovements. Heck, now that I've pulled out Sark's book with it's twelve chapters I might read it in tandem with the AW. Suddenly I want to read and do it all....But now, that may be my all or nothing thinking...huh?

What I decided to do with the AW contract was rewrite it in order to make it my own and really give it a chance to deepen my experience. It is pictured below pinned up on the wall above some of my creations. The angel on the far right is the first spiritdoll I ever made. I learned to make them from Sherry Hart way back in 1991.