From Shakespeare To You

Hey, folks. Nick the poet. I'm a creativity coach here at Cadre. I won't make you listen to my guitar playing, which is usually questionable at best, but just wanted to get a start to the morning here with you. I'm sorry I run in a little bit late, but we have an awesome, awesome topic for you today. It is morning pages. So, morning pages are one of the most important habits that you can develop to increase your productivity and creativity. In this video, I'm going to show you how to do morning pages and get the most out of them.

So, morning pages have changed my life. Any really creative project success that I've had has originated from morning pages, and it's just helped my life so much. So, you know, have you ever felt overwhelmed by racing thoughts or struggled with self doubt and creative blocks? Do you yearn for a simple yet effective way to tap into your inner wisdom and unlock your creativity? If so, you're in for a treat, because we're gonna discuss the transformative practice of morning pages, this powerful tool that can transform your life for the better.

Hey, Risa. How you doing? Welcome. We're just talking about morning pages. And so one of the reasons I think that morning pages writing three long hand pages in the morning is so effective is because throughout the day, we're often searching for the answers outside of ourselves. You know, we're searching them through friends. We're searching them through social media. We're searching, you know, all of these external ways to figure out what we really, you know, want to do. And morning pages are a way right when you're a little bit tired in the morning to.

To get all of your thoughts down on paper. So. And to really, it's almost like a western form of meditation, because if you're like me, you have a busy mind, especially in the morning, and it's a way for to let all that out. And you don't need to be a writer to do this. You don't need to be in a creative field to do this. This is a practice that can help absolutely everybody. So, morning pages originated from the book the Artist's way by Julia Cameron, who first introduced this life changing practice as a way to unleash one's creativity and overcome self imposed barriers.

Since then, thousands of people have experienced the benefits of morning pages, not only for their creative endeavors, but also for personal growth and self awareness. The practice involves writing three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing first thing in the morning. And guess what? You really, really don't have to be an artist. Or a writer to benefit from. This morning pages are literally for everyone. And it is hard to write out three longhand pages. It takes a good 20 or 30 minutes.

But when I'm really in that practice and doing it, and truthfully, I've been out of it, I've been just doing like a page in the morning. But when I'm doing that three pages, something magic happens on that second or third page, and you get insights, you get answers. It's really amazing. So, you know, one of the beautiful things about morning pages is its simplicity. You know, you don't need any fancy tools, you know, to get started. Just a notebook and a pen. And as soon as you wake up, you know, resist that urge to check the phone.

We all know that urge. And just write without worry. Don't worry about grammar. Don't worry about punctuation. Just let it all out on the page. You know, it does not have to be perfect. In fact, we got to check our perfectionism at the door, right? As I like to say, let go of your perfectionism and become one with the loving ways of the universe. And that can come out through these morning pages. And it's going to help us release our inner critic, because throughout the day, in work emails, in conversations with others, we have to edit ourselves.

We have to play by society's rules, you know, and that's okay. That's what, that's what keeps us all going. But this is a place where you can release that inner critic and just allow your thoughts to pour out uncensored. And it's natural to have some, you know, resistance at first, you know, and maybe you'll only be able to write, you know, a little bit, you know, but I think if you just get started, you're gonna find a tremendous, tremendous benefit to this, you know what I'm saying? So it's also gonna help you gain clarity and insight.

So there's something magical about putting the pen to the paper. Typing is great, but there's something about that. I don't know what it is. We've been using our hands for years and tools, and it taps into this kind of ancient, mystical understanding. I don't know, maybe that's too much. Maybe it's just like, for some reason, you put the pen to the paper and good things happen. And if you have a problem, if you have a problem in your life that you're trying to solve, and oftentimes we try to just solve it in our own mind, right?

And, you know, but there's so much power in writing that down to get the clarity and the insight right, and so really give that a try. And over time, this practice is going to help you become more self aware. It's going to help you to tap into this wisdom that we all have within ourselves, this sacred identity that we all have. You know, it's. It's within all of us. And, you know, I do it all the time where we're searching for those answers outside somewhere. You know, we want someone to tell us what to do, but we know the answers inside of us.

And sometimes we just need to listen and listen and write it down, you know, and you might get these little bursts of inspiration. Like, it might come out of the morning page, like, oh, gotta call this person or email that person, or, I need to start walking more. Oh, my goodness. I realize that I haven't been taking care of this or I missed that. It's really, really amazing. So it's also going to help you boost your creativity and productivity. So it's going to help you get more organized and more energized, and you can know what you need to focus on that day.

And sometimes, for me, poems, scripts will come out of it. I work in marketing, so, you know, slogans will come out of it. There's all this opportunity that comes with this super, super simple practice. So I do come from a family of car salesmen, so you can see that I really try to sell this. I can't help, but I go into selling mode a lot of the time. But in, you know, our fast paced world, it's so easy to get swept up into the chaos of life. Right? And this is just a simple practice that's going to help us in this mode of self discovery and creative growth.

And once again, don't feel like you need to. Don't feel like you need to do anything but just write and just do your thing. And like I say, I'll leave you with this. The thing about the mind is that when it's on the grind, it might never stop, but there is a higher power that doesn't make you want to cower. Okay? And we can tap into this. And one of those, you know, the greatest thing about it is that this power makes us realize we don't need to do anything alone. Right? We got to stick together, because together, that's where the magic happens.

And so you might need to take this time to do the morning pages in the morning and tap into your sacred identity, into what's important of you, for you in that day. That's right. The poet. I am Nick the poet. Thank you, everybody, so much for. For tuning into this live today. I appreciate you all, and let's just keep walking this journey together. We're figuring this out. 2023. You know, there's, you know, difficult times. There's. There's happy times. And, you know, no matter what, we gotta stick together.

So, anyways, I hope you have a peaceful, positive, and prosperous day. And remember that we all have a lot of work to do, but we could do it together. Okay? Bye.