Be Gentle With Yourself

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As promised, here are the tools and assignments for this week’s episode. 

Read  Daniel José Older’s essay, “Writing Begins with Forgiveness: Why One of the Most Common Pieces of Writing Advice is Wrong” here.  Please reflect on how you’ll incorporate this message into your life and practice.

Your work, from this episode:

I want to you work on noticing when you’re starting to get down on or doubt yourself as a creative. I want you to recognize your antecedent behaviors and actions—the things that you do before the full-on harsh self-critique. I want you to record the conditions/contexts that triggered the behavior. Then I want you to detail the behavior itself, how it impacts your work, your mindset, and others in your life. Once you’re able to do this, I want you to script a new way to react. Don’t care what medium you use, but try to craft new behaviors, responses, and feelings. By doing this, you’re able to readily imagine a new and more productive way to be.

Remember, not everything is for everybody, but please carefully considered what we’ve just discussed. You may be surprised by just how valuable the information is to you. 

Here is the poster for my workshop. You can register here.

Until next time.

Peace.