One of the reasons I loved doing Daily Pages Live was that I had a bit of a time limit. There were a bunch of people hanging out with me, and I couldn’t just go on and on forever until I thought the page was absolutely perfect.
People find it hard to stop because they’re reaching for perfection. Their goal is to create the most perfect page possible, and I think that’s a fool’s errand.
There’s no such thing as perfect, and if that’s what we’re chasing, we’re always going to be disappointed.
Instead, I like to think of my page goal as: spend this amount of time being creative in my notebook.
“I don’t want to play anymore” is a great reason to be done.
That absolutely counts.
Your turn
Just stick it down.
Start by putting the Currently List in your notebook. Then flip through some of your stickers or your pretty paper and pick out one thing that you want to stick down.
This is a great place to use those stickers that you love but don’t necessarily have a home for. It’s a great place to stick down some of your favorite pretty paper instead of leaving it in the box. It’s a great way to use up your scraps, your bits of life, or even just a random photo you’ve got lying around.
You don’t have to worry about making another page tomorrow.
A creative habit is going to have a different cadence for everyone. It’s even going to have a different cadence for you in different seasons of your life.
I’m living proof of that.
I used to create these pages every weekday. Right now, I’m creating them when I have the time, which is definitely not at the same time every day. That doesn’t make my pages or my notebooks any less important. It doesn’t diminish anything about my stories.
When I was making every day, I would tell myself that I didn’t need to worry about tomorrow’s page.
Now I’ve tweaked that to tell myself I don’t need to worry about the next page—whenever I find the time to get back to my stuff and make the page.
The pages you make are no less important if you’re making one every day, one every week, or one every month.
We’ll talk more about that next week.