Day one of Morning Pages. :-D
SBFactoryGirl's Life List
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1. Do my morning pages every morning
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2. Eat healthy
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3. Go to grad school
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4. Train my puppy
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5. Create an altered book
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6. Stick with the dance lessons I've started
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7. Learn Italian
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8. Learn to play the guitar
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9. Exercise daily
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10. Create daily
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11. Be comfortable in my own skin
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12. Take a solo road trip
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13. Have professional photos taken
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14. Paint a picture that I hang in my house
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15. Write a memoir
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16. Meditate daily
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17. Live in another country
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18. Sing for an audience
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19. Spend 24 hours in silence
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20. Volunteer abroad
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21. Grow something
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22. Allow myself to be vulnerable
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23. Send a postcard to Postsecret
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24. Complete "The Artist's Way"
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25. Be here now
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26. Spend less than I make
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27. Eat slowly, savor every bite
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28. Taste abalone
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29. Make my own clothes
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30. Get at least 43 things on my "I've done" list
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31. Finish my degree
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32. wake up when my alarm clock goes off
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33. Forget myself
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34. List 43 things that i like about myself
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35. Think less and do more
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How I did it: By remembering to check in with myself about how much energy, time and attention I was giving and how much I needed back and not being afraid to voice that, or to let go when I wasn't getting fulfilled. Read how I did it…
So…. I started this almost three months ago… and I am still stuck in the first week.
I got into a good flow with my morning pages for a while there… I’d miss a morning or two… I’d get halfway down the first page occasionally and be so bored with myself that I’d want to stop… but I kept going.
UNTIL I bought that damn morning pages journal. Sold specifically for the purpose of writing your morning pages. Divided by week/chapters, quotes from the book on each page and exactly enough pages for seven days in each section.
My flow stopped. I have only done three since I bought it three weeks ago. The pages are gigantic and I think… that I am going to go buy a pretty journal that I feel good about writing in and use the ready-made one for exercises and maybe check-ins
I’ll start the first week again. artist date planned for Sunday :-D

