“Once we get those muddy, maddening, confusing thoughts on the page, we face our day with clearer eyes.” Morning pages are, as author Julia Cameron puts it, “spiritual windshield wipers.” It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found. The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me. I don’t journal to “be productive.” I don’t do it to find great ideas, or to put down prose I can later publish. This “companion” provides plenty of context to be used by itself. What I needed was a daily and meditative practice of production, like the tea ceremony. ![]() More book consumption didn’t interest me, as I often use it to procrastinate. To be honest, I never read the original Artist’s Way, which was recommended to me by many mega-bestselling authors. ![]() Next, I crack open this large-format paperback (pic from my Instagram): Nearly every morning, I sit down with a hot cocktail of turmeric, ginger, pu-erh tea, and green tea. Many of you have since asked about my “morning pages,” so I’m oversharing again… The Daily Struggle I was overwhelmed by the hundreds of heartfelt comments, letters, and more that I received. Most people you see on magazine covers have plenty of mornings when they’d rather hide under the covers all day long.Ī while back, I bared my soul in a post about “productivity” tips for neurotic and crazy people (like me). ![]() In this post, I’ll show you what my raw morning journal looks like.īecause it’s easy to imagine our heroes as unflappable juggernauts, who conquer insecurity with a majestic mental karate chop every morning. Or perhaps you’ve seen examples of their writing and thought to yourself, “Goddamn, that reads like the Gettysburg Address!” and become demoralized. It ranges from Marcus Aurelius to Ben Franklin, and from Mark Twain to George Lucas. History is littered with examples of successful (and unsuccessful) people who kept daily journals.
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