Journaling Prompts for the 10 Day Check-in I came up with these prompts for Day 10 of the 100 Days Project, with my answers posted below. If you want to, take a minute to write out some thoughts for yourself. These journaling prompts are great for checking in as we are about 10 days into the 100 Day Project, but could also be good as a check in and reflection for almost anything that you have in progress. On Tuesday of this week, Andrea, Brooke, and I went LIVE for our 10 day check-in on Instagram for our 100 Days With ABC. Check out the replay here if you missed us live. You can comment here on the blog post, or over on Instagram if you want to share your answers to any of these questions. I'd love to hear what you are doing for the 100 Days Project if you're participating, and anything else you feel like sharing. If you're playing along with us, you can add the hashtag #100DaysWithABC.  MY ANSWER: Feeling proud of myself for getting this far in. Definitely feeling connected and grateful to my community of Andrea & Brooke as we are doing this together. I'm feeling more connected to my new(ish-to me) art space and having more reasons to be in the space and creating. I'm also feeling pressure at times and sometimes a little anxiety about making sure to keep up. I'm able to stay out of guilt and negativity on the days when I have needed a break, and that feels a little surprising and also really great to give myself the grace and kindness that I had committed to.  MY ANSWER: Things that are feeling easy are having clear parameters around what I'm going to do every day. I like knowing exactly what my project is, not having to make a lot of choices as those are either already made for me (doing gel plate printing) or are spontaneous in the moment (pulling a marble to choose my color for the day). I had told myself that I wanted to pull out and use supplies that I hadn't reached for in a while, so it's felt super fun to rediscover old favorites. A fun surprise is how much I've enjoyed choosing the music that accompanies my social media posts, I didn't expect that!  MY ANSWER: A huge challenge that I didn't anticipate is just how much energy it takes me to do gel plate printing. I didn't really think it through, but in the past I have done a lot of creating in big batches. Pulling out both gel plates and all the supplies, plus the time to just work and the fact that when I'm printing I stand and move my body a lot - these are all factors that I just didn't think through completely before getting started. So I found that it took more time and energy than I really had on some days and was probably a little more complicated than I need it to be moving forward. I also didn't think about the sheer volume of paper it would create if I planned to keep going at the pace I had for a full 100 days! Remembering to take photos &/or videos and then finding the time to edit and post to Instagram is not really my jam, so that has been something that I feel goes in the "not working" category.  MY ANSWER: I don't know if it's a new learning, but maybe a reminder or reinforcement: I am NOT a "content creator". I don't like the pressure of trying to remember to document everything, I don't like editing videos or pics and trying to organize them into posts. It's not all bad because I definitely like to have some of it documented and I have been meaning to create some of the things (like my masks & stencils post) for my followers and community. But the added step after I'm done creating or before I get started of trying to take pics or get set up for a video or edit often takes a lot of the fun out of the creating for me. So I think I'm learning that I'd like to continue to see how I can find balance with creating some content and documenting my process without losing my mind (or all the fun!) by trying to do that.  MY ANSWER: I'm doing this for ME. I'm reminding myself of this - because of my answer to the previous question. I'm still doing the creating even if I don't take a million pics or create a video. I want to remember that the 100 Day Project, for me, is about feeding my creativity and having some consistency, not about creating a curated feed of content. My reasons for continuing are that I'm having fun creating and being in my art space. I'm thankful for the pics and videos I have created and posted. I'm loving the connection with Brooke and Andrea and also with the wider creative community. There's something very hopeful and positive for me in knowing all these people are out there creating and just imperfectly TRYING at something. I want to continue because I'd really love to get through the full 100 days and know what that feels like to stick with it.  MY ANSWER: Barriers I could remove are to let myself off the hook of posting every day, knowing that the creativity happens even if it doesn't make it onto social media. I also need to simplify or change up what I'm doing for the next 10 days. I'd like to be doing something that can fit a little more tidily into 15-20 minutes and that can be done seated if I want to not be standing or need to conserve energy.  MY ANSWER: I know for sure that sticking to just one color is SO HARD for me! I want MORE COLOR!! So whatever I do next, I know I'll be giving myself permission to expand beyond just one color.  MY ANSWER: I'm still figuring this out. I'm unsure of what I want to do for the next 10 days. I absolutely love watching both Andrea and Brooke's videos, so I've been thinking about setting myself up with a framework of working in a journal or on small works, but I just don't know yet. This question is actually giving me a little anxiety because I feel like without some guidelines for myself and a plan, I will feel too overwhelmed by options and it will be more difficult to do something every day. When the choices are that many - make something....anything! - it feels very overwhelming to me and my brain and creativity bones just shut down completely. So I really would like to come up with something that feels right for the next 10 days.  MY ANSWER: you can see my handwritten note in the pic at the top of this post Holy moly, my friend! It’s Day 10. You did the thing!! You stuck with something important to you for 10 whole days! In THIS world, with YOUR life, that’s not always easy. I truly hope you can pause and recognize how you are showing up for yourself. Was it perfect? Nah. But maybe that would’ve been boring. Was it just what you needed? Yep. and you did it! I’m proud of you. I’m proud of you. I’m proud of you. ❤️ I’m really fucking proud of you. You are showing up and doing the thing...in your messy and authentic way. Good job, you. ❤️ XOXO  Helpful Links
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