Hello creative friends and happy Monday!
I hope your weekend replenished and refreshed you for the week ahead. I love the fresh start Monday gives us.
And it’s time for a little creative accountability, if you want it. First, let’s check in on last week. How did it go? Did committing to one thing here help you do that thing?
It helped me a LOT. I had committed to making and posting one video. When Thursday, my appointed video day, rolled around, I did not want to do it. I had a lot of meetings that day and if I hadn’t publicly said I would make a video, I would have bailed on the commitment. But I can’t hold your tootsies to the fire and not do the same for myself!
So I got my pretty dress on and made sure my curls weren’t TOTALLY wacky and set up the video system. And I made a video. And then another, and another and before an hour had passed, I had clocked 6 videos. Yes, SIX!
This is what happens when we set a low bar. We usually are able to over-deliver and then we feel great. I felt completely powerful and successful and proud of having done all that.
I posted the video and encouraged a lot of people to be more creative. I’ve got a few bits and bobs to add to the other videos and then I can schedule them for upcoming weeks. This method of batching my tasks really works for me, helping me play in many different media so I can do a lot of different things.
My commitment this week: prepare the two presentations I am giving on creativity in Fort Collins and in Costa Rica. I know those will happen because I am being paid to show up and teach, so it’s a little bit of cheating on my part to not add another thing to do.
But I also know that adding more for the sake of it isn’t my priority this week. So I am content with that. And excited to speak about this thing that is my life’s work: how to be more creatively successful and satisfied.
How about you? What worked for you last week and what will you do this week?
Last week I finally posted one photo on my blog after a dry March. You said we could post a link, so here it is. http://bit.ly/1BKJyE5 It’s relevant to my trip this winter, perhaps politically interesting, but mostly a space holder. It’s important for me that I post at least once a month, and usually a whole lot more, to keep the string going.
I also wrote a solid rough draft for the writing blog about decluttering, which has been my focus for the beginning of spring. My goal for this week is to finish and post it.
I like this Monday – commit to one thing, the following Monday comment about it accountability. And I love your videos so I’m looking forward to more of them.
Kudos, Bobbi, for getting the post and the photo up! Thanks for sharing the link!
I like that you have your minimum requirement – one per month – and that you will build from that.
I like the Monday accountability thing, too. I would like more people to take advantage of it. I’m not sure I will continue, but do indeed watch for more videos. As of now they’re going live on Fridays. Look for one tomorrow!
Keep creating! (As if anything would stop you.) 😉