Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

So I did share on the podcast in recent days that I'm reading and I'm really a student of the work of Julia Cameron right now who wrote the artist's way and by the way we are all artists we are all born creative

and she always speaks about the universe as as God being the ultimate creator just

look outside right I mean look at your family. Look at what

exists in the world. It's art. Our very nature is creativity to create, to show, to show up in the world, make a contribution.

And I'm loving, loving, loving, following the exercises that she suggests and there are two core exercises week to week it's

actually a 12 week course in the book but there are two core exercises that you

never abandon the first is called the morning, which is where you write three pages,

stream of consciousness style that you don't read or share with anyone else on an A4 piece of paper.

Then you put it away and you don't look at it. Three pages. It feels actually very

cleansing to do that. I feel like I've become a lot more present and clear because I'm aware

of what I'm thinking in my mind, and three pages can be filled pretty quickly I have to say

So that's step one the morning pages some people have been doing them for 20 years without skipping a day

That's how much they help. And the second part which is kind of fun and it's

really interesting because she said a lot of people resist this because we're not

taught to play to be whimsical to spend time on ourselves and on our creativity. The second task is to do what's called an artist date once a week.

So say for a couple of hours, you alone it has to be you, your significant other is not invited, your best friend is not invited, you are not babysitting your niece.

No, you have to be alone, being solo is critical and non-negotiable.

For a couple of hours, you do something fun,

for the sake of fun, for whimsy, for joy.

So I'll tell you a couple of things that I've done. I did a vision board. I've been kind

of wanting to do one but I thought wow amazing I've got a Sunday morning to myself I'm going to do it and

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