Hi friends, This Sunday Spark is your kind reminder to do both your weekly and monthly reviews. After doing the monthly review, I especially love doing a monthly preview using this Plexi planner from Ratibni. A preview is about planning for the new month by jotting down key events and allocating time to work on meaningful projects like launching a new workshop or recording new podcast episodes. I usually spend 60 to 90 minutes doing it. However, in the last two months, I skipped this step because I wanted to keep my schedule open to family plans. But with dear family members leaving soon, I feel I am ready to go back to a more focused version of me like I usually do every August. Happy August! |
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Here is your weekly dose of The Sunday Spark ⚡️ a newsletter listing 5 inspiring things I thought were worth starting your week with: - 🍿 I am almost done with the book The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again on audible and there were many highlight-worthy parts that I also got it on Kindle. Finally, there is a Ted Talk about it which made me appreciate Catherine Price's work even more. Check it out.
- 🎧 I have noticed that I start becoming more financially conscious and a bit anxious every August, right after the jump in expenses during July, which is now head-to-head with December's. This Marie Forleo's podcast episode with Kumiko Love is helping me get back on track with my financial goals.
- 😮 Appreciation and the end. So simple.
- 📚 In The War of Art, author Steven Pressfield teaches that the more important an activity is to your soul's evolution, the more resistance you will feel to it. Learn about resistance and how it impedes our new projects in the book's summary. The War of Art is a classic read for creatives. I love it.
- A wonderful quote about starting something new from yet another classic book for doing creative work:
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“Finding it hard to begin a project does not mean you will not be able to do it. It means you will need help—from your higher power, from supportive friends, and from yourself. First of all, you must give yourself permission to begin small and go in baby steps. These steps must be rewarded. Setting impossible goals creates enormous fear, which creates procrastination, which we wrongly call laziness. Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear. Fear is what blocks an artist. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of not finishing. The fear of failure and of success. The fear of beginning at all. There is only one cure for fear. That cure is love. Use love for your artist to cure its fear. Stop yelling at yourself. Be nice. Call fear by its right name." ― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way |
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