Daily Creative Practice

Daily practice prevents resistance. I don’t personally know anyone who doesn’t encounter the resistance. Although if you’re out there let’s talk. 


I feel resistance to writing this post, this I believe is fully founded on a self conditioned patterning of thoughts. 

Wow that makes me sound quite high falutant- So I’m smirking because I’ve never typed *highfalutin before, and had to look it up.  I’ll be leaving in the above mistake.

The resistance: the practice of doing something every day will recondition you to overcome the resistance on a regular basis just as you conditioned yourself (or others did) to believe you needed some special magic in order to create something. 

The act of writing and publishing here on this blog is one of my ways of practicing daily practice.  It’s getting too meta in here so let’s go to some examples. 

I’ve got a dream, a goal, a long lost interest in acting.  I love that I’m writing about this here in 2021 because by 2031 I’ll be able to look back on this blog post and say: “Look at when that was just a dream.”

So how can I parlay a dream into a daily practice?  This is a question I’ve wrestled with.  Now there are of course important things to consider: taking classes, networking with other actors.  These are important no matter what your interest or field. 

I’m in the process now of figuring out what daily acting would look like.  Keeping the main thing the main thing:

it would be way too easy for me to complicate this.  I know how to create videos. I know how to shoot and edit them. This will likely play a role in daily acting BUT - How to keep acting the main thing while adding as few steps as possible? Some of this will be trial and error of course. A “not to do list” will also help. 

A minimum viable practice will also help. Currently I’m toying with a daily 60 second video of me acting. Something with one single shot, perhaps simple music and posting to my youtube channel under a playlist.

What about writing?  I’m not aiming to become a writer (although I like it a lot)  Perhaps there will be some small amount of writing. There will also be some amount of avoiding the cleverness trap.

Well this is the end of part one of this idea.  This post will be updated with part two as the evolution of this idea unfolds.