100 Day Project
Partner Yoga, first day of #100day project
“I had to admit to myself I wanted more to write a shitty novel than I wanted to never write a novel at all because I was afraid of writing a shitty novel.” ~ Cheryl Strayed
I am participating in the #100 day project. It’s a global creative collective that sounded perfect to spark more creativity in my life. The past 6 weeks or so, I have been thinking, dreaming and obsessing about what my project would look like. What did I want to create? Learn? Bring into or back into my life?
Yoga?
Drawing?
Breathing?
Making a daily smoothy?
Painting?
Morning Pages?
I decided it was time to get serious about the book that whispered to me in 2019. The book that dropped into me during Anita Moorjani workshop at the Omega Institute. The book I have been pushing away, resisting, with all my might for almost FOUR years. I wrote a chapter of it in September of 2021. That’s it! One chapter.
The book, it’s always lurking in the background haunting me.
The little nudges, tapping on my shoulder. The nudge of a friend asking me to be her accountability “buddy” around the book she is writing. A phone call from a mother who is scared about her kids illness and needs guidance. The little voice in my head reminding me I am avoiding the real work or purpose I need to accomplish. The knowing that for some strange reason, this book that needs to be written and birthed into this world, even if no one ever reads it.
Writing the one chapter felt good. Like the kiss on sunshine on your face or hiking to the reward of an awe inspiring view. It was easy. The words flowed. The images and descriptions came. All I had to do was sit my butt down and type.
So, my 100 day project is…..
You guessed it. WRITING EVERY DAY!
Already, these few words have energized me. My body remembers sitting and writing the chapter. It feels like an old friend visiting.
I have no idea where this is leading. What its going to spark. Or how it fits into my latest journey as an artist. I am open to the process. The unfolding. The next chapter in my life that I will create by writing about my past and how it fits into the puzzle of my life.
The start of a journey. Much is going to happen “In Between”.