Take Your Breath
Lesson Learned & Shared
This year I am taking on the #100dayproject by sharing one lesson a day from my Stop Writing Alone journey. I am looking specifically for the lessons I not only learned myself, but the ones I find myself repeating to writers and creatives in my community over and over again.
Take Your Breath
If you've ever been in an airplane, you've heard the instruction: If the oxygen masks drop down, you MUST put yours on first before you even think of helping anyone else. It's basic survival.
It's also a great lesson for the way we live even with both feet on the ground. Think of your week so far, how much of your time, energy and life force has been given over to others before yourself? This applies to basic self care all the way up through all the things that help you BREATHE physically as well as creatively.
I remember one time recognizing that I had spent a lot of my writing energy on social media, writing well thought out Facebook posts and responses to others long before I spent any of that energy on my personal writing projects. This is a perfect example of me needing to put my (writing) oxygen mask on first.
Where do you need to make sure you are breathing right now?
My #100DayProject for 2024
Introducing my #100dayproject for 2024:
To know me is to know I have a teacher soul. At the end of the day, my passion is learning and sharing that learning with anyone willing to listen. So, when it came time to think of a project that I could realistically take on for 100 days straight, it had to come back to that passion.
For the next 100 days, I will share one lesson learned each day that I find myself continually sharing with writers and creatives in my community. There are plenty of things that come up again and again (in fact, I'm kind of betting that there are at least 100 of them!) and it's about time I wrote them all down somewhere. Let's see how far we get with these mini lessons, let's see how many you remember me chanting before, and how many you needed to be reminded of!