The Artist's Way

2. Where does your time go? List your five major activities this week. How much time did you give to each one? Which were what you wanted to do and which were shoulds? How much of your time is spent helping others and ignoring your own desires? Have any of your blocked friends triggered doubts in you?

7. Choose companions who encourage me to do the work, not just talk about doing the work or why I am not doing the work.

survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention.

A mystery can be very simple: if I drive this road, not my usual road, what will I see? Changing a known route throws us into the now. We become refocused on the visible, visual world. Sight leads to insight.

8. List five people you admire. Now, list five people you secretly admire. What traits do these people have that you can cultivate further in yourself?

2. . Describe five traits you like in yourself as a child.

1. Affirmative Reading: Every day, morning and night, get quiet and focused and read the Basic Principles to yourself (See page 3.) Be alert for any attitudinal shifts. Can you see yourself setting aside any skepticism yet?

BURIED DREAMS, AN EXERCISE

5. Write a letter to the editor in your defense. Mail it to yourself. It is great fun to write this letter in the voice of your wounded artist child: “To whom it may concern: Sister Ann Rita is a jerk and has pig eyes and I can too spell!”