We have 24 hours in the day. Find your sacred hour to paint, write, meditate, dream, get your inspiration moving forward. This inspiration was taken from Robert & Sara Genn twice weekly letter. Find more inspiration at their website painterskeys Your sacred hour September 19, 2014 Dear Joanne, Mark Twain wrote, Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. While likening studio time to frogocide could be considered extreme, fear of difficulty, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of pleasure (the fear of being selfish) and the resulting procrastination might be curbed by Twains suggestion. Before the duties of the day overwhelm and dominate all hours, why not claim a sacred hour? Eat your art frog first. An experiment awaits. Within 30 minutes of rising, declare the first hour your sacred hour. 0:00: You have 5 minutes to get into position, ready materials, pick up a tool and begin. 0:05: Work for 15 minutes without making any major decisions, without too much of a plan and without interruption. If it helps, begin with something youve left incomplete from last time. If it helps, tape a sign to the door that says, I AM PRAYING. 0:20: Rest and assess for 5 minutes. Half-close your eyes and let your next move appear. 0:25: For the next 20 minutes, youre the resident genius. Make a few bold moves. 0:45: The pump is primed. For 5 minutes, dream of what else could be. 0:50: You have 10 minutes remaining to complete: reveal, feature, polish, kamikaze the idea, knowing you can set it aside and come back to rework, refine, scrap or send directly to the Guggenheim. 1:00: Stop now. After a week, a month, a year of sacred hours, perhaps your frogs a bit of a prince. Sincerely, Sara PS: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle)
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:29:16 +0000
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