It seems that making the Decision, leading to a Commitment, causes Productivity. It should only work like that every day. Here I am fighting and arguing with Mr. Resistance, and once I made the decision to get to work, Wham! it happens. That commitment to get myself to the studio and do some much needed painting really worked.
A while ago I read The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, which helps artists of all types break away from their creative blocks. It was definitely an eye opener and the tasks helped me move forward in my art making. However, now and then I slide right back into that comfortable mode of “I’ll get to it later.” And you know how that is, later never comes, time passes, and we forget everything we learned.
Things happen, plans fall through, the “lights” go out, in more ways than one, and art just doesn’t seem to happen.
Until I read about decisions becoming commitment. The brain knows what it’s doing, trying to distract us from our work. But the commitment I made shook it all up. I guess it works, huh?
You see, I was on a roll, painting along so effortlessly, when I was so rudely interrupted by a mess of a hurricane here in New York. This painting was begun in earnest, each stage worked in small segments of time, gradually developing when my lights l
iterally went out. I stopped painting this and anything else. Nothing in the way of creativity.
Knitting took painting’s place for a while, as we regrouped. The holidays came and went, I sold some work at some events, but painting did not resume. Mr. Resistance was getting nice and cozy, until I “Decided” to move on.
