Learnings From an Artist Who Never Commits

“Come on, let’s do a 100 day project”.

It’ll be easy, she said…

I stared into my hot chocolate as the room began to close in on me. My heart beat ticked into runner mode.

“I’ll do it with you. We can hold each other accountable”.

“OK, but on one condition — I do this on my terms. I need to make it super easy for myself to achieve, like stupidly easy. Otherwise I won’t do it, I’ll get too overwhelmed by the bigness of it and freeze”. My mind flashed to the 100 unfinished projects already sitting on my studio floor.

“I will draw for 100 days in a row. But it only has to be on the size of a post-it note. AND a drawing counts even if it’s only a single line on the paper”.

That felt better. No pressure, low standards, I can do this.

And I did!

Here’s what I went through…