Daily Pages 101: Creating the Practice

Lesson Five: Continuing the Journey

Today is all about continuing to make pages in your own style in order to build up your creative practice muscles.

We've made it! Lesson 5!

Congratulations.

You've now made a few of my favorite Daily Pages and you're ready to start making pages all on your own.

Here are a few of my favorite tips for continued Daily Pages success:

Don't get too caught up in 'making it look good' or 'what it's supposed to look like'. This project is about helping you to form a creative habit, it doesn't matter what your pages look if you're putting in the practice.

Don't worry if you miss a day. It doesn't matter. This is not the 365 project. Or the every single day project. This is about spending five minutes with yourself in order to become closer to your creative self.

Don't be afraid to try something new. This is your special place to try out all the new techniques, supplies, and weird things that you don't have anywhere else to properly test out. This is your safe creative zone.

Don't overthink it. There's always tomorrow. You're not trying to make a cohesive scrapbook or the Mona Lisa. This is just a creative space for you to spend a few minutes each day learning to find your creative self.

Day Five Resources:

• Challenge Hashtag: #ALPdailypageschallenge

Day Five Homework: Create a page in your Daily Pages notebook in your own style. Pull things from your desk, grab stuff from your stash, or open something new and play around.

and now -- Share it with us in the ALP Community!

Remember that there are no rules when it comes to making Daily Pages. It doesn't matter how much or how little time you spend on your pages, as long as you're coming to your notebook and creating a little bit of something.

No worries! We've got you covered. Everything you need to get started, maintain, and thrive on this creative journey is available right here on the Substack (and most of it gets sent directly to your inbox—it couldn’t be easier).

Here's what's next:

Now comes the (slightly-harder) work, maintaining your own Daily Pages practice and returning to your notebook on a regular basis.

Upgrade your subscription and get access to the best resources to help you build your own creative habit. Whether you’re creating Daily Pages, or playing around in a YSM journal, a paid subscription will get you access to the live creative time we’ve got M-F at Noon ET (plus the archive), monthly creative masterclasses (plus the archive), and tons of other great resources to help you on your journey.

Thank you so much for joining me for this challenge. I have absolutely loved seeing the pages that you and other challenge participants have made.