For a few months now, I’ve been posting my to-do list every morning and night on Instagram stories.
I work for myself1and I have a tendency to feel like if I didn’t do Every Single Possible Thing That Needs Doing, I haven’t done anything. It’s terribly toxic and I’m trying to be kinder to myself, and a daily plan and a nightly recap has softened my view of myself: I do my best, and the rest can usually wait.
At the top of my daily list — something I’ve rarely skipped for the past few months — are Morning Pages.
Which has begged the question:
I’ve been positively inundated with variations on that question (six people have asked me), so today…I’m going to answer.
Morning Pages are what they sound like: pages you write in the morning. Three of them, to be exact. No plan. No self-editing. Just yourself, some paper, and a pen. Or a pencil, if you’re into that kind of thing.
They’re a major component of The Artists’s Way, a book by Julia Cameron that walks “blocked creatives” through a 12-week c…