Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Ever since I've read the book The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron last year, I've been doing one of her exercises regularly, not perfectly, but I've been doing it regularly. And I've got to say,

it's a game changer. This book, The Artist's Way, it's been in print for years. It's been a

bestseller for years. I'm doing what I can to get Julia Cameron on the podcast. So stay

tuned. Stick with me. And this isn't a book for traditional artists.

It's a book for everybody because we are all creative at our core. And if you dispute this on any

level, remind yourself of who you are as a child. Didn't you love to make things, figure things out,

ask questions, paint, draw, run, do things

that we simply let go of as we get older because life gets more serious.

Am I right?

But one thing that Julia Cameron suggests in this book, and I think it's an incredible thing

to do, no matter who you are, no matter what

stage of life, it's this. She calls it the artist's date, meaning a date that you have with yourself

for something whimsical, something that is pure pleasure for you. She speaks about filling the well,

meaning if you're an artist, right, so you're someone who creates, maybe you have a corporate

job, maybe you're a, you raise children, maybe you're a coach like me, no matter what,

there is creativity in everything. Everything that we do is a creative act. We forget about this.

We dismiss it. We think that creativity is for kids. But solving problems, that's creative.

Showing up and having thoughtful conversations, that's creative. Recording a podcast is creative.

Helping others is creative.

So we need to fill our well in order to show up more fully in life, right? And life can be so

largely routine. We eat at the same places. We hang out with the same people. We vacation in the

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