Thinking About Linking + Next Selfie Photo Journal

Rob and Jerzy check in on their latest practice: working on a page of links, for those situations where you need to share a "link is in my bio" post. Both have insights from taking on a more practical for business kind of practice!

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Selfie Photos Practice: Set a timer for 2 minutes and practice documenting you in your day. For some folks this is a very natural well practiced thing and for others of us we don't for a variety of habits and reasons. This practice is a chance to gather some selfies as a journal for the next two weeks. Whether you choose to post or keep it private, the practice will lead to new insights hopefully!

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Explore Balancing + Next Be Thinking About Linking

Rob and Jerzy check in on their latest practice: practicing balancing. This could have taken many forms but both chose to do some kind of standing balancing exercises. It was a very clear reminder how balancing is so connected to other things and we share our thoughts on all that!

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Thinking about linking!: Set a timer for 2 minutes and do some work with your thoughts and assembly of a page of links helpful to those who connect with you online. Here you can focus on the planning, making or both for what you'd do for your own link-in-bio sort of web landing page.

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Collect Positive Feedback + Next Explore Balancing

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Rob and Jerzy check in on their latest practice: collecting positive feedback folks have shared with you. This practice went surprising places for learning for both of us!

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Explore Balancing: This time it's a kind of fitness practice to explore a way that works for you to practice balancing. Could be all kinds of options standing or seated but do pick something that works for you. Set a timer for 2 minutes and try a balancing activity.

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Collage of Inspiration + Next Collect Positive Feedback

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Rob and Jerzy check in on their latest practice: gathering inspiring sources then making a collage out of what we each collected.

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Gather a list of positive feedback: What have people told you they like about what you make? Could be a brief compliment or detailed encouraging paragraph. Set a timer for 2 minutes and think back, take notes of what you've heard people like about what you make! Collect that positive feedback in one spot. After a few practices in 2 weeks, take a look at what you gathered along with us.

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Making Scales + Next Collage of Inspiration

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Rob and Jerzy check in on their latest practice: making noise with an instrument and musical scale of choice.

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Collage of Inspiration: Gather a quick collage of what inspires you! Set a timer for 2 minutes, search, snapshot, or even take an audio note to collect in one place. After a few practices in 2 weeks, take a look at what you gathered along with us.

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Draw Action Silhouettes + Next Make Some Noise Scales

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Rob and Jerzy check in on their latest practice: drawing action silhouettes.

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Make Noise Playing a Scale With a Musical Instrument: With an instrument of your choice and a scale of your choice, set a timer for 2 minutes and make some noise!

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Make an Image w/Tool You Talked Yourself Out of + Next Make Action Silhouettes

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose a visual practice where we each pick a type of tool we chose to stop using or avoided using in the past.

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Silhouettes in Action: Create an image using silhouettes to convey action. For any style and any creature use digital or analog tools to create the blocked in shape of your visual idea.

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Free-Writing + Next Make an Image with a Tool You Talked Yourself Out of Using

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose a free-writing practice where you pick a prompt to start, set a timer for 2 minutes, and get words into a physical or digital page.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Make an Image with a Tool You Talked Yourself Out of Using: Whether digital or analog you probably chose to not draw or create an image before with a tool you encountered in the past. Perhaps you always work in 3d and want to try 2d. Or maybe you're a vector artist and are looking to dabble with pixel art. Pick a tool, set a timer and see what you make in a 2 minute practice session.

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Plank or Your Equivalent + Next Free-Writing

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose to do a plank exercise as a fitness practice. They talk about working on healthy ideas about exercise and how these planks went.

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Free-writing: Start yourself with something to react to in your writing. Could be what's on your mind, a random prompt, an inspiring tweet, something in a news article. Set a timer for 2 minutes and write as much as works for you during that practice session.

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Wonder About Some Goals + Next Plank or Your Equivalent

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose to practice a new brainstorm about goals in the spirit of wondering.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Physical Exercise - Plank or Your Equivelant: We're not doctors, ask your doctors and they will agree that we're not doctors. Also your doctor would know if and what physical exercise is good for you. For this practice we're trying to plank. Like any of our practices we'll set a 2 minute timer and give it a try, likely it will be a few plank repetitions in 2 minutes. Wikipedia has a useful definition and examples for reference on plank as an exercise.

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Gather Inspirational Work and Ask Why + Next Wonder About Some Goals

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose to practice a journaling exercise where you gather 3 or more pieces of media that inspire you, then capture a few words as to why.

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Wonder About Some Goals: Set a timer to 2 minutes then wonder about goals and write, speak, or type them into the place you're capturing. Let the goals flow without editing, that's letting the wondering happen. Next ask what makes each goal come to mind, what makes it important to you. Be sure to keep that wondering approach to let yourself see what thoughts come out about each of those goals without trying to filter first.

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Brainstorm Excitement and Encouragement + Next Gather Inspirational Work and Ask Why

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose a practice of capturing encouraging ideas and observations in brainstorms 2 minutes at a time. It was more challenging than either of them expected!

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Gather Inspirational Work and Ask Why. Gather 3-10 pieces of media that inspire you and write a few words on why they inspire you. Set a timer for two minutes and as you go, alternate between listing a work that inspires you then why it does. Each 2 minute session can build on the others through the week or two you choose to do the practice. Depending on how the sessions go it may be interesting to note along the way if the exercise is challenging or easy to do and why that might be so!

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Make Sound to Express Your Day + Next Brainstorm Excitement and Encouragement

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose a new combo practice that's both making noise and journaling. Set a timer for 2 minutes and use any instrument to express sonically the ups, downs, emotional qualities of how your day feels so far.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Brainstorm Excitement and Encouragement Choose a way to type or write down ideas for 2 minutes. During the 2 minutes, capture words and phrases that express encouragement even excitement of existence. What will emerge of this practice? Possibly a pile of positive poetry!

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Stretch for 2 Minutes + Make Sound to Express Your Day

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose a stretching practice. For 2 minutes at a time take a pause from work activities and gently stretch to feel good and help avoid repetitive stress from typing and drawing.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Make some noise on a musical instrument to represent the quality of your day! Set a timer for 2 minutes and use any instrument to express sonically the ups, downs, emotional qualities of how your day feels so far.

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Fill a Page with Doodle Characters + Next Stretch for 2 Minutes

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose a drawing practice to fill a page with doodle characters. Get something to draw on, set a timer, and for 2 minutes at a time add characters to that same page.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Stretching! Find a stretch that you'd like to do to help you feel good at your creative space. Set a timer for 2 minutes and do that stretching and see how you feel as a result.

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Grab Color Palettes From Your Photos + Next Fill a Page with Doodle Characters

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose a low intensity practice, to grab colors from photos to make color palettes.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Fill a page or canvas with doodle characters! Get setup with a sheet of paper, canvas, physical or digital. Set a timer for 2 minutes and draw one character at a time and see what emerges as you eventually fill your chosen canvas after a few practice sessions.

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Draw a Line to Visualize How Your Day Feels So Far + Grab Color Palettes From Your Photos

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose a sort of journaling practice. Instead of writing words, draw a line that communicates what you felt throughout your day.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Create Color Palettes! Set a timer for 2 minutes and choose a photo you have already. Or take a fresh photo of anything that seems to have interesting colors. From there use a digital painting tool of choice to select 6 or more colors. If you're using an app that grabs a color palette quickly and still have some time, jot down your thoughts about this color palette. What do you like about it? What kinds of feelings does it convey?

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Use an Editor's Eye on Your Web Presence + Next Draw a Line to Visualize How Your Day Feels So Far

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose to practice making the text better on our marketing and web presences. Mild spoiler: not as enticing as other practices like drawing and making noise, so we delve into why that might be and how we might approach a similar practice differently in the future.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Draw a line to visualize how your day feels so far! Think back on your day while you draw a line. Use line to communicate emotion + time. Put energy into that line motion, width, even extra lines that help show the feeling of the progression of your day. Could be small "spark lines" or fill a whole page. Set a timer for 2 minutes and go for it!

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Make Some Noise on a Musical Instrument + Next Use an Editor's Eye on Your Web Presence

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose to make some noise on musical instruments! Choose something to make sounds, set a 2 minute timer. See what comes out, whether it's pre-practiced, spontaneous, or a new thing you're performing.

Chosen prompt to practice next:

Use an editorial eye on your portfolio or product page! For any of your web presences, look at some of your marketing materials and see if you can trim it down for brevity/clarity.

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Flip Through Familiar Pages + Next Make Some Noise on a Musical Instrument

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This week Jerzy and Rob chose the flip through pages off your shelf and notice what moves you practice.

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Make Some Noise on a Musical Instrument! Grab an instrument of any kind, physical or digital. Set a 2 minute timer and make some noise to see what comes out. You could be thinking of a particular rhythm or melody or go with what you're feeling in the moment. If you'd like to: take note of how that 2 minutes felt.

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