Complete "The Artist's Way"

• I was inspired to design a t-shirt logo
• and some Christmas Cards
• I’m also working through Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

1. Make gingerbreadmen
2. Take some round to S
3. Bring my CD player outSet it up design a christmas card
4. Get some new CDs
5. Have a creative folder
6. Learn to meditate
7. Create a ‘dressing table’
8. Buy long slipper socks
9. Get a small Buddha head
10. Meditate and burn incense 15 mins a day morning and evening
11. Create a scriptwriting folder
12. Create vision walls + boards + collages
13. Buy some glue
14. Buy some art pencils
15. Get rid of old jewellery-Charity shop find some batteries for my clock
16. Make a cushion case out of my old top
17. Throw out holey socks and underwear
18. Own a beautiful bra
19. Read ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
20. Get my hair cut and dyed
21. Carry round a small sketch book
    -whoops only just noticed I had 21! Well the meditation ones kinda merge

I began again today, but read through the chapters of both Walking in this World and TAW, and have completed WitW tasks including writing a list of 20 activities, which I’ll list here. I’ve decided to replenish the list once I’ve completed something off it. I’m also going to try meditation whilst doing TAW, and to read books that I think will help inspire me in some way. I’ve also been making quite a few vision boards, and am going to keep working on that. I did my morning pages (more like noon pages) today, and some affirmations, including working with blurts. I’m also going to try and read the Basic Principles each morning and evening which is recommended later in the course.

I got oh so close to completing this goal but sort of got lost along the last few weeks, I’ve tried to go back and complete certain weeks but I think for it to work you have to start from the beginning again, which means the dreaded reading deprivation week all over again.
I think I’m going to combine the weeks with the one’s in Walking in this World, and see how that goes as in comparison Walking in this world seems much lighter exercise-wise. I think I’m also going to summarise and put in my own words what each chapter is about and how it relates to me, so I get a deeper understanding and connect better to the chapters. So we’ll see how it goes again.
Areas I need to focus on are giving myself enough time to complete the chapters. For instance I often read that week’s chapter did a few exercises and then the next week read the next week’s chapter and tried to catch up with the previous week’s exercises, sometimes I skipped entire week’s exercises, this happened towards the end when I had a lot going on, from about week 6 onwards.
I also have to prepare an artist’s date and make it non-negotiable.
Consider having a number of small artist dates as well.
I really want to focus on the book and complete the tasks and get writing/drawing/creating!!

Well i got the voluteering placement on the film set and it was just bizaare because I was given the exact job the ‘wet blanket’had been talking me out of previously. So major major synchronocity! But I seemed to have screwed up the fledgling proposals of a love life I was offered.
Volunteering has taken up a lot of my time so for week 6 I barely did any tasks, and once again no real artists date, although I danced aroud a lot which is on my list. Actually being on a film set is like a mega artist date! Although I’m in productionl, would love to be on set but unsure what I could do, probably just end up as a runner.
What else, I bought The Tao of Pooh which seems to correspond with quite a bit of Julia’s ‘teachings’ and just fits with my situation. And the money-watching came up just when I was worrying about how much money I’d been spending on trivial things. Anyway all is good at the moment, and I’ve been writing my morning pages everyday, generally in the morning, on Sunday, this week however it was in the evening.
On one day I wrote about who blocked my creativity, but didn’t write openly about it, for fear someone would read it (namely the person),as it’s happened before. Then I seemed out of sorts all day and everything seemed to go wrong, so don’t know how to broach that honestly, it’s a big subject, and a complicated one!
Need to get going with week 7’s tasks, and also do the daily reading of basic principles plus artist’s prayer.

I’m either feeling a whole dollop load of synchronocity, the really good kind. Or I’m just very positive and seeing there are lots of doors open to me. Which it didn’t feel like on Friday. I finished my internship and then was told the long road to the film job I want, and felt like I was being totally shot down. Probably a wet blanket kind of person. But when I got back home exhausted etc, everyone was positive and suddenly I have lots of possibilities. I’ve just found a short play competition/festival looking for writers, and actors/directors etc. Which I’ve just started converting a short story for. And maybe I’ll see once I’ve submitted it, if I could act/direct as well (yeah I know I have to make the cut first…positivity!). There’s a film project happening majorly close to home, which would be amazing if they need me to help volunteer for them. That would be so cool-fingers crossed-. What else a short film project that’s looking for actors, which I’m gonna see if they still need people. I wouldn’t have applied before as I have no ‘formal’ acting training or even a show reel, but it’s no pay, and I sorta have a one minute clip of me acting teehee. It never hurts to see, so I’ll have a go. Plus a load of jobs coming up in areas I’m interested in- and also areas of town which is very cool, and smaller things as well. It’s all good! Hope others are getting equally happy vibes!

Well I finished, I wasn’t perfect, I screwed up and noticed that I had read things without meaning to, just by the very fact I was on the tube and you can’t look at people so you look at signs etc/over people’s shoulders at newspapers etc.
I was also set tasks where I had to read, but it wasn’t where you could get lost doing it, it was more quite specific, and involved writing really.
I did read things like horoscopes, some things online I watched tv and I used my ds, not excessively though-until Sunday!
I could have done this a lot better, but I still felt like i had a revelation. I also noticed I barely do anything for the artist’s dates. Which is quite bad. I’ve generally no idea where to go or what to do.
On the Saturday I sort of woke up feeling uneasy and worked through some stuff in the morning pages, then went rollerblading whilst taking photos :) Which was fun, and quite yes-manish. That felt like finding myself a bit more, I used to love rollerblading. And I felt uncomfortable in the situations I found myself in, not totally sure how to change them though. Realised the business I’m going for is very hollow, and that I want to work with people directly and help them. In some way. Not necessairly fix them, but inspire or improve their day etc.
I also need to experience way more, and want to live abroad again. Things I already knew but had squished down, due to money and job and responsibility ideas. I also sort of figured out I have relationship issues, mainly I don’t have one, and I kind of like it that way, but then again I also don’t but can’t seem to reconcile the two feelings. Which probably confuses guys:=) I mean it confuses me…
Umm other hiccups…. I had a lot of lunch time pages, and noticed that I was somewhat flustered and things went awry when I did that.

Also had a lot of synchronocity!

A really weird example, I was feeling crappy and wrote in the morning pages that I wanted a cute guy to ask me out. One asked for my number on the tube, who was actually sweet and interesting.

I was getting fed up with one small job and complaining on the phone, got another call at the same time telling me I was needed urgently in the office.

A lot of things have been synchronized actually, and I only realise later. Quite wonderful really.

I was rubbish at the tasks and barely did any, all time was taken with internship. Sort of catching up at the moment.

Week 5 is less complicated methinks…mainly cos I’ve forgotten what it’s about…will get back to that.

This is going to be interesting, although not impossible as I should be busy most of the day doing an internship. Which will more likely involve a lot of running around rather than reading. I do have a long commute though, and will probably want to chill and ‘numb’ out after it.
I’m going to take Julias reading deprivation to mean no ‘numbing out’ activity. So no binge tv watching, youtube surfing, wiki entries/yahoo news, obsessive checking of email, or overdoing job search-looking at masses of pages and losing count of what I could actually apply to, very little ds and movie watching. And I’m going to try and eat on ‘my own’, not in front of the tv, internet etc, but rather just focusing on the food.

Think this is Julia’s way of getting us to be mindful and present, rather than blocking out worries/unpleasant chores, or even fun stuff due to fear. Or at least this is my interpretation. I made a long list of things I can do instead of my numbing out activites and will try and follow through with this.
-Stuff where you’re not numbing out but rather getting facts/info (quickly) etc I will count as acceptable reading. Don’t think I personally use reading so much to numb out, maybe more on the internet… Hmm anyway will see how this goes, and shouldn’t be back on 43things till next week (if all goes to plan…)

Managed to do all days morning pages (so far), only missed one day’s affirmations, and I think an evening and a morning affirmative reading.
Gonna read chapter 4 now…

I’ve done quite well I think, tasks this week were a little harder as they required action and maybe some travel (little problematic atm), so I think I’ll carry a lot over into next week.
Didn’t really do the affirmative reading, only twice I think and never in the morning and the evening but rather one or the other, but will try harder next week. Also keep up with the affimations as well which I didn’t do well on again.

Got 6/7 morning pages, and on the day I didn’t write one I ended up writing a long email (that I didn’t send) about stuff that was going on-getting it off my chest, so that was good.

I’ve read chapter 3 already, so guess I should do as many of the tasks as possible, its all about synchronocity.

So synchronocity I’ve noticed this week is that I wrote in my morning pages lists of possible ‘job’ opportunities, and one of them was to take a journalism certificate. When I checked my email I had received info about a film journalism certificate course which I just missed out on taking last time, including details of how to apply etc. Application procedures are pretty lengthy but I guess I should just go for it! (We’ll see if that comes to pass.)

Artist’s date- photography