A lesson on how the “how” doesn’t matter
What I learned from a simple drawing exercise.
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A lesson on how the “how” doesn’t matter
Happy Sunday, Soothers. Recently I was on a lovely spiritual retreat in Sedona, Arizona. (Check out Katie, who hosts these retreats, she’s the best.) Each evening at 8pm, after a day full of journaling, meditation, hiking, you name it, we would meet in the living room for that evening’s circle.
The small group of lovely women (many of them entrepreneurs like me, or wanna be entrepreneurs, gathering the courage to do their thing in the world) would gather for conversation, or activities; one night we spontaneously burst into an hour of dancing and laughing to 90s tunes that would have filled my middle-schooler’s heart full of sleepover dreams.
One evening, one of the retreat guides had us do a simple exercise. We were to pair up, and draw the other person’s face…. but we couldn’t look at the paper while drawing, and we also couldn’t lift our pen off the page. We had to stay focused on the person’s face, and do our best to capture it, just trusting the process that our pen was taking us through, no matter the outcome.
As a perfectionist and truly, a horrible drawer, my little scared rabbit heart skipped a beat at this…
