Day 1: the most important thing! ✅
take just a few minutes to do your project today
Hello, friends! It’s finally here – happy Day 1 of #The100DayProject!
The most important thing: take 5 or 10 minutes to do your project today.
If you can, document it.
And if you document it, post or share it on whichever social platform you like to use. We mostly post on Instagram @dothe100dayproject – tag us if you’re there, we reshare posts from the community to our Stories.
If you’re not participating this year, you can still follow along – take a couple of minutes to like, comment on, or share posts from people doing the project. Your encouragement means more than you know!
I shared on our Instagram about how the podcast had been an idea for a long time before I started working on it. Sometimes ideas need a while to take shape before you’re ready to take action. I realized I was ready when I got to the place where I was more excited than I was nervous – when I was more energized by the not knowing than I was afraid of being bad at it, or stressed about figuring out the technology, or overwhelmed by all of the things that needed to be done in order to actually do it.
The wanting to do it had to become bigger than the fear of all of the things that could go wrong.
A new commitment to a creative project can bring a range of feelings. What are YOU feeling, today, right now?
What does the wanting look like vs. all of the other stuff?
If you sat down to do your project today and realized what you chose isn’t a fit, give yourself some time to experiment. You might have heard the story I told on the podcast about the year I decided to make collage tarot cards. I realized in the first few days – to my great horror and amusement – that I actually really hated cutting. Really just did not enjoy it at all. But I didn’t stop experimenting and that was the year I found watercolors. Even though I “failed” to make a single card, it was easily my favorite project.
The paradox here is that we need a commitment to get started but the commitment is to showing up, not necessarily to doing the exact thing you set out to do. So get curious. About what you like doing, what you don’t like doing, which work you are proud of, all of it. When you hit a snag, even on Day 1 (it happens!), treat it like information that can help guide you in the right direction.
Imagine you’re the anthropologist of you and your creative process. What do you see? What information did you get from doing your project today?
Rooting for you, always, and can’t wait to see what you do over the next 100 days.
XO,
Lindsay
Good morning! I’ve read the email but can’t locate the Prompt. Where do I find it?
I’m so exited to start!! Right now I’m in the midst of an eight week abstract painting class and a 12 week collage class, so I made my project intentionally simple this year! I can’t wait to get started and to see what everyone else is up to!