Take Your Inner Creative Out This Weekend

No, I’m not talking about more work

I want you to have fun this weekend…with your inner creative. In The Artist’s Way Julia Cameron dedicates a whole book to the process of dating your inner creative. After working through each week’s chapters though, I know it can still feel pretty hard to understand what hanging with your inner creative can mean.

What you’re used to: equating creativity with productivity

What to do this weekend instead: be creative without necessarily being productive. Sit in the park and try to draw for the first time in ages. Teach your dog a new trick until you’re both ready for an afternoon nap. Go for a walk and dream up new ideas that feel so infeasible and grandiose, but exciting too.

You want to pull away from metrics this weekend and focus just on the art of learning and noticing. It can be difficult, but not impossible.

What you’re used to: creativity feeling like hard work

What to do this weekend instead: take yourself back to the days when creativity was just fun.

I don’t know what those days look like for you, but for me, it’s a pen, a paper, and my ideas. My ability to doodle and dream up new projects has always made creativity feel fun. When doodling and brainstorming feels like too much…