011: Making Time to Create

Did you know that it’s up to you to make the time for your creative passions? It may seem overwhelming or like you just don’t have enough hours in the day but there are a few things you can do to help find more time for creating!
I know that a lot of people struggle with finding the time to create and I have even had days where I’ve used the “no time” excuse too…. But once I realized that we have the ability to take more control over our day I saw how much more time we could have on our hands to do the things we love.
In this episode, I am diving into a few practical tips to help you make more time in your day for creating. I discuss a few episodes that might be helpful in this endeavor and how to reframe your thinking around the “mandatory” tasks. You’ll also hear why voicing your plans and having someone to hold you accountable is super helpful for making time to create.
What you’ll find in this episode:
A mindful moment about a scammer
The reasons people use to not create
Why you should take an inventory of how you’re spending your time
How everything you do is a choice
Reasons why you might be resistant to claiming time to create
Practical ways to make more time to create
Why taking care of your creativity is taking care of yourself
Read the transcript of the episode below:
Have you ever found yourself saying, I just can't find the time today. We are talking not about finding time, but creating it. This is episode 11, Making Time to Create
welcome to the Committed to Create Podcast. I'm Lisa Funk, and I am so excited to hang out with you here as we talk about the power of creating with our hands and our minds. I like to keep it real, remind you that you are not alone and share specific ways that creativity and mindfulness can help us live even more meaningful and joyful lives. I am so glad that you're here.
Hello, and welcome back to the podcast. I'm so glad that you're here. I have been thinking about how I really love doing the podcast because it gives me a chance to reflect on topics that I really care about. And most of the topics that I've done so far are ones that you guys have asked for as well. So it's just been really fun for me to think about these things and reflect on them and write down some notes and just come on and have a little bit of a conversation with you.
So I hope that's how it feels for you. Remember, we're sitting on my big blue couch at my house. I hope that's how it feels for you. I really wish that we could be doing that. And I do love doing it so much, and I really do wish that we were on the couch because I would love to have your feedback. And I'd love to know what you're thinking and your thoughts about all these topics. So I would love it if you would let me know what you think. I want to have a conversation about it with you. Come over to Instagram, where I'm talking about it on stories and in my posts and leave me a review about the podcast so that I can hear what you think. I love to hear from you.
Before we get started with today's episode. I wanted to start out with a segment called a mindful moment.
So a few weeks ago, okay, this part isn't super mindful, but a few weeks ago on Instagram, if you follow along over there, I am at hand letter design is my handle. I shared about how I had a scammer that was stealing my pictures of my videos and trying to use them on different websites. And it was horrible.
And I was really stressed about it and I hated the idea of anyone getting scammed by this person or group of people, whoever it was. And so I worked really hard to try to make things right. And so many of you helped me to shut down these sites where this person or people were scamming using my materials, but in the midst of all of that, as I was really struggling.
I got on Instagram and I created a post and in the post is said, like in the image I wrote, I'm ready for a pep talk. So some of you might remember this. And I just said, basically, I love giving pep talks. I love coming on here and encouraging all of you. And today, I need a pep talk. I need you guys to help me because I was feeling really frustrated that no matter what we were doing to try to shut down the scammer, they just kind of kept multiplying and creating new pages and all these things.
Thankfully, now this is over. Thanks to a lot of your help, but at the time it felt stressful. And so I asked you for your words of advice or encouragement, and I cannot tell you how amazing it was for me to have all of you share so much love and so much encouragement. If you need to pick me up, go read the comments on that post.
I am for sure going to be reading them time and time again. I love those, all of those ideas, the advice, the prayers that people wrote and shared the scriptures, the thoughts, it was amazing. And after that, I got a DM from someone who said what's really funny is that I feel like I should share with you some of these affirmations that you share in the Guide to Mindful Lettering. 
So if you don't know, I teach lettering and I have a workbook that teaches brush lettering, and it's called the Guide to Mindful Lettering. So yes, it does teach you how to do it technically, but then it also kind of teaches you how to use it as a mindfulness practice.
And in the end, it has over 50 affirmations to trace and this sweet person, if it was, you send me a message again, cause I, I couldn't find it in my DMS, but this person messaged me and said, I have been doing these affirmations and tracing them. And it's really helped me to find that Zen and to that calm. And maybe it would help you too. 
I was like, ding, ding, ding. Hello? Yes. I needed to kind of take a dose of my own medicine and practice what I preach and take a moment to write down and letter some of those affirmations in some of those phrases, such as no storm lasts forever and just like taking those phrases and internalizing them as I letter and wrote them over and over again just helped to kind of get into a mindful and meditative state. And it was a blessing to me and I was so grateful for that person who sent me that message on Instagram, right in the midst of that craziness. When I really did need a mindful moment. 
If you are also interested in using lettering for mindfulness, I recommend you check out the Guide to Mindful Lettering. It's really great. If you've been on our site, you know, we sell everything that you could ever need to go along with it! Our bundle's the best, it comes with all the tracing paper and pens and everything. So I will link to that in the show notes if you're interested, but I just wanted to come on and say, thank you for all of you who came and supported me during those crazy few days felt a lot longer than a few days. Let's be honest. 
It was a good reminder to me of how much I love this community and how much I love what I do. I love sharing creativity and mindfulness with you, and it means a lot to me. And so it was just a really great reminder and I also felt really bonded to all of you through that experience. I felt like you guys really had my back.
It was really special. So thanks for being there. And thanks for letting me share that mindful moment.
 Now, to get into the episode. We are going to be talking about time and making time. I got to tell you that it is one of the number one reasons people give me for why they do not pursue creative hobbies in their life. They'll tell me I can't find the time or I just didn't have the time, or I don't have the time.
Now, some of you might say reasons, some of you might say excuses, you get to decide if it's a reason or an excuse. And as we go through the topic today, I just encourage you to be open to what it is for you. And do you want to find more time? Is there something deeper going on? We're going to talk about it because I think it's a useful topic and it's something that I have learned a lot about, and that really has changed a lot for me as I have just embraced thinking about time in a new way.
When we say the phrase, I couldn't find the time, I think that it almost sounds like our time is being allotted by somebody else. Like they're controlling it and we just didn't have any free time. Cause they didn't give us any free time. And it stinks so bad because we really wanted to have some free time, but we just couldn't find it and we didn't have it. And it stinks. It's almost like I was trying to think of something else that would sound really silly to say that we couldn't find. And I thought about a clean house. If you've listened to my last episode, you're gonna be like, okay, now we know this about Lisa. I'm not the cleanest person in the world. Okay. I'm just not that's okay. We all have our strengths and we all have the things that we care about. 
But anyway, it would be so funny if I was just like, oh my gosh, I keep waiting to find my house clean. Just not finding it. Couldn't find it. So weird, I couldn't find my clean house or I couldn't find my house to be clean.
And someone might say, yeah, you don't find a clean house. You make a clean house. Right. We think we're going to stumble upon something. We think we're going to stumble upon the time we think we're going to stumble upon the clean house. You know, we think we're going to stumble upon some habits, but isn't generally how things work.
That's such a bummer. I really wish that we could. I wish we could stumble across all of the things that would create amazing habits or be very rejuvenating or even fun. Sometimes even things that are fun for us, we say we can't find the time to do them, but we don't find the time we make the time, just saying.
Now I also want to say that I am as guilty of this as anyone. I think anyone that is a human being, which is all of us, are guilty of this. We all say this, at least, I think it's very normal to say it. Okay. Some of us have tried to eliminate it a little bit from our vocabulary, but I think it's super normal in our culture to just give that sentence that line, that phrase as the reason, or excuse for why we didn't do something. Oh, I just didn't have the time. I just couldn't find the time. We don't even think about it. We just say it without even thinking. And I don't think we're intending to lie. I think that we either aren't really thinking too much about it or we really do believe that that's true.
But today I wanted to get a little bit more intentional about it and dig a little deeper. So when I talk to people about maybe they want to try lettering, that's mostly what people are talking to me about, or they want to incorporate a creative hobby in their life because I truly believe that incorporating a creative hobby in your life is super life-giving and nourishing and amazing.
Not that it's easy. I didn't say it was easy, but I think it's really nourishing and amazing, but it does require time to do it. Right. And so when a lot of people tell me that they just don't have time, if they really do want to take a look at it and find more time or create more time, the first thing that I recommend that they do is to ask themselves, how am I currently spending my time?
Now this isn't a super fun practice. This isn't a super fun activity because it's kind of hard to be super honest with ourselves about how we're spending our time. And I don't, if you do decide to do this, which I recommend, I think it's a good activity. Don't be hard on yourself about it. This is not an activity to make you feel bad.
This is not like your teacher looking over your shoulder saying, Ooh, whoa, Ooh, wasting a lot of time. I don't know. You don't seem like a very good person. You spend a lot of time doing things that aren't that important. No! 
This isn't so we can judge ourselves and say, we waste too much time, or we spend too much time doing these different things. It's so that we can be aware of what we're doing with our time and just make a decision intentionally for ourselves about if that's what we want to continue to do. There's no right or wrong here. There's just awareness. So this first action would be to take an inventory. Now, if you want to get a really accurate picture of how you're spending your time throughout your day, you're going to want to do it throughout your day.
This isn't something that you can really do at the end of the week and have it be accurate. At the end of the week, we're going to think about maybe how we thought we did or what we think we spent our time doing. But if you do it throughout your day, just even one day of your life, it will be really interesting to see.
Okay. So you knew that you had to drive someone to an activity or you knew you had to go to work or you knew you had to get ready. How much time did it take you to get ready? How much time did it take you to drive? How much time did it take you to prepare dinner? Again, this might seem kind of like a little bit nitpicky or mundane or something, but I think it can be really eye-opening at least for me, because I might think, I just don't really feel like I have enough time, but what are the facts let's get down to the facts.
How much time am I spending doing different activities. And again, this isn't to guilt ourselves, this isn't appeal, shame or anything like that. This is just for awareness so that we can create the life that we want. We can create time to do the things that we really enjoy.
Now, when you have this list, this inventory of your time, a lot of things on your list will feel very important. They will feel like mandatory things. They will feel like things that you cannot cross off, you cannot do without. And I'm going to say something that might not be very popular, that may be a little uncomfortable to hear, but I'm going to say it anyway. Are you ready? Nothing is mandatory. And I'll say it again.
Nothing. Is. Mandatory. Now I know this sounds extreme, but it really helps to go to extreme for a minute. Okay. Now I used to have a time during my life. Okay. Not just one time, let's be honest. There have been multiple times, but I can remember one time in particular during my life, when I was younger, I had really young kids. It was really intense and I felt like I had to do all these things. 
I felt like I was obligated to check off all these boxes in my life. And I felt a little bit like a martyr. I felt unhappy. I was kind of begrudgingly doing a lot of these things feeling like I had no choice and it was just what I had to do.
So for me during that time, it was very powerful to realize that I actually didn't have to do any of those things that I felt I was obligated to do. And that were this burden and I'm not, not everything, but a lot of it felt like kind of a burden. I'm just going to be honest with you. Okay. And so for me, it was powerful to say, even though I feel like I have to do these things, I actually don't.
Everything we do is a choice. Eating, bathing, caring for others. All of that is a choice. It's not mandatory. And I'm guaranteeing that for a lot of us, when we write down our list of the things we quote unquote have to do, they include a lot of things beyond eating and bathing. And I am not saying that you should not do those things, let me be very clear here. But what I am saying is that all of us are either consciously or unconsciously choosing those things. We're choosing what we do and we're choosing how we fill our time. And that is actually wonderful news. 
For me during that tough time in my life, when I felt kind of burdened and kind of annoyed that I had all these responsibilities, I felt, I can't even think of the right word. You guys all know the word that I'm thinking of. And I can't think of it. So if you know the word, message me! But I just felt kind of stuck in this situation with this long list of things that I had to do. And so for me to realize that I actually didn't, I actually didn't have to do any of those things. I could step away.
Now, that's kind of extreme place to go. But for me in that place, and you all know I've struggled, I've struggled with my mental health. For me in that place, it was helpful to say, you know what? Even these very basic life things are a choice that I'm choosing to do them. I'm choosing to eat. I'm choosing to take care of my children. I'm choosing to do all these things. 
And it really empowered me. It empowered me to know that those were a choice and that I did want to do those things. I did want to do them. And it helped me to think about how I wanted to do them. So knowing that it's a choice is actually wonderful news for us, because it means that we have way more control over our time than we may have realized.
Okay. So we're going to take a moment and we're going to breathe that in right now. We really do have control over all of our time and nothing is mandatory. We can start with a totally blank slate and decide what we want to do. 
Now of course, if you are, I can hear you right now. You're like, lisa, I can't. There would be major repercussions for cutting out some of these big things. My kids would be really unhappy if I didn't take them to their extracurricular activities or whatever. I understand. I'm not trying to say, go live on an island with no schedule and you can choose whatever you want to do. I know we're dealing with real life here, but it doesn't change the fact that we all still do have a choice and we might want to choose to keep a lot of those things that we have on our schedule, because it makes someone in our life happy or because it means something to someone that we love. But even if you kept your entire original schedule, their schedule, as it is, as you wrote it down, I'm guessing that you might have written down, you know, once you do this activity, that you might write down that you actually do have some free time in there.
And you may be saying, I never said I didn't have free time, but sometimes it's just hard to find the time to be creative. But I'm betting that most of us do have free time. Now we may use this time to scroll social media or watch a show or take a nap. I got to tell you. I'm a big fan of naps. So I am not bad talking any of these things.
I scroll plenty of social media and love watching a good show.  I'm not saying that any of those things are bad. But if we decide that we want to pursue a goal or learn a creative hobby or take some time for a specific type of self-care, that is one place to look, is that the free time that we currently have, and of course, I think that zoning out can be okay. And all of those things. But if we want to replace some of that time with time to create, we can. 
And a big part of creating more time is deciding not to live on default. Because a lot of our day we just kind of happens to us. We have our things that we kind of have to do. And then, you know, we might have these kind of buffer times or in between times when we kind of default to zoning out or doing some of these other things that we don't even necessarily mean to do, but we just kind of default to it. And so making more time to create means not just going on defaults, but doing things intentionally. 
So after doing this, if you realize that you actually do have pockets of free time throughout your day, when you have that realization, does it make you feel excited, or do you find yourself making some more excuses of why you still don't really have time to create?
Either way, whether you're feeling super excited that you're now realizing you do have pockets of free time, or if you're like, ah, I still don't really feel like I have that much time or somehow that's still not really gonna work. I think it's helpful to ask ourselves if there might be some other reasons why we aren't making the time to create or to pursue a creative hobby or whatever it is that you want to have time for.
I think in this case, or in any case, it's helpful to go a little deeper to see if there might be some other reasons. For example, if you feel guilty taking time for yourself, I highly recommend listening to episode six of this podcast, which is called Guilt Free Creativity, where I really encourage you to see how the benefits of taking time to create highly outweigh any of these thoughts that we have that we're not worth it, or we can't really do it, or we should spend all of our time and energy and money only on our children's creativity or something like that. So, if that resonates with you, definitely go listen to episode six of this podcast. 
And if you are feeling nervous about starting or afraid of failing or not being good at it, or even afraid that it might be a waste of time, if you spend time creating or pursuing a hobby, I recommend episode eight, which is called Failure Freedom, where I really go into where that comes from and how we can deal with that kind of fear of failure and the fear of just wasting time or not being good at something. I think that it can really be a reason why we hesitate to make the time to create. So if that resonates with you, check out episode eight. 
Now I want to talk about some practical ways to make time to create. The first is to schedule it.
Now, if you know me, you know, I'm not the most scheduled organized person in the world, and that's okay. But if I want to make sure that I'm going to take the time to pursue something new or to create something, it really helps to plan it out ahead of time. And I'm going to add two tips along with this number one of scheduling it, is to tell someone that you're going to do it. So whether that's a friend or a partner or a child, or anyone, let them know, hey tomorrow at three o'clock, I am going to do my lettering course. I'm going to turn on the videos. I'm going to get out my pen and paper and I'm going to start my lettering course and I'm going to work on it. 
Just telling someone really helps us not just to schedule it, but to stick to it. And even better is to find someone to do it with you. Whenever we want to start running or walking or getting into a new habit, it always helps to have a friend because if they're going to show up you're much more likely to show up as well, studies show this.
Okay. So do the same thing with your creative hobby. Even if they're not doing the exact same activity, you can always have a creativity night where you both show up and you work on your things. It's super fun. I recommend number one, plan it, schedule it, and either tell someone that you're going to do it, or do it with someone that can be a friend, a child, a partner.
My tip number two is to realize that it can be short, that we don't need hours of time in order to be creative or to make time to create. So many of us think, oh, I'm probably going to need a couple of hours to get out all the supplies and to do the class and blah, blah, blah. Of course, there are some things that can take that long, but if you've listened to this podcast before, you've probably heard me talk about five minutes of mindful creativity.
And it's something that I encourage all of us to try is to find five minutes a day, to grab a piece of paper and a crayon or to take the rocks outside and to arrange them. I was recently, there were a bunch of rocks, I think just started taking them and kind of putting them into a little rainbow, and it might seem like a really simple thing to do, but it was my creative moment. My five minutes of mindful creativity for the day. It wasn't something that I took a picture of or framed or anything. It was just a moment for me to be creative. So tip number two is to realize that it can be short. It doesn't have to take a long time. 
Tip number three is to attach it to another activity.
So this could be while your kids are doing in their homework or after you eat dinner or in the morning before you go to work or on your lunch break or in the carpool line. There could be some time during the day or during your week that you can attach it to an activity where that activity is the trigger.
So for example, as soon as I put my kids down for a nap, I go and get out my pens and paper. And I love, I've heard the creator of Tiny Habits speak before, and I love his concept of just tell yourself you're going to do the tiniest thing. Don't commit to anything big. Just tell yourself right after I put my kids down for a nap, I'm going to get out a piece of paper and a marker.
That's it, you don't have to even open the marker necessarily. It's just that tiny habit of attaching it to another activity and just doing the very tiniest step to get started. So I recommend trying to find another activity that you can attach this creative time to in order to make that time to create.
And tip number four is to guard that time. I know that as soon as you sit down to create, you're probably going to have a child or someone try to interrupt you. They're going to come over and say, I need something right now. And of course I get it. I have four little kids, there are emergencies and there are things that come up for sure.
But I do have certain things that I try to protect in my life. Some things that I want to do. And it's helpful for me to say this is important. And so if you want to come create with me, then that's great. Of course, if there's a real emergency, you're going to go take care of it. But then you can say, you know what, for these five minutes, I am going to sit down and I'm going to do this.
And if you want to come to it with me, that's great. Or I do have things that I do set up and plan ahead. For example, maybe I like going out to a meal with a friend every once in a while, going out to lunch or going out to dinner. I tell my family head of time. I tell them what's going to happen. I'm not going to be around. You're going to figure it out. Everyone's going to survive and I can do the same thing with creativity. I can tell them that I'm going to be creating. I'm going to be doing it during a certain time and they can figure it out. 
Now you may be thinking if you're in the house, that's kind of tough because they know where you are. They will always find you, which is why I recommend, if you can, inviting them to join you or allowing them to be around you when you're doing it, because then you're not only looking for a time when you can be alone. Because for me as a mom it's super hard to find a time when I can be all the way alone. 
If I can find somewhere else to go. And sometimes I have gone somewhere. I'll find, okay, right now we're still in quarantine, COVID time. But I, in the past I used to go to a cafe or something. I would get my own little dinner. I'd sit by myself. Some of you might not feel comfortable doing this, but I personally loved it. I'd sit by myself, bring my paper and my pens and to have some fun creating after dinner, I'm talking a pretty casual like cafe, not like a fancy one where they're hoping to clear my table. Anyway. I'm just trying to give you ideas of how you can protect that time. 
And I would love for you to take note of when you are creating and how it actually might be a really fun and really rejuvenating for you. And something worth protecting. I hope that you will realize how important it is to be creative and to allow yourself that time. And as you know, I believe there are many types of creativity. It doesn't have to be just with a brush pen, or a brush    to do watercolor or just art. There are so many ways to create and it doesn't have to be alone by yourself, but I know that when it's important to us and when we can really see the value in it, And see how much it helps us and makes us feel good and feel good and how nourishing it is, I really think that it's easier to make the time to create it. 
I also wanted to say something about the way that we think about time. I think it's really common in our culture to think about time in a scarcity mentality. To say, I don't have enough time. I never have enough time. I couldn't find the time.
And when you're feeling that way, even if you do make time to create during that time, when you're creating, you're probably going to be feeling stressed and rushed, and it may not feel very enjoyable. But if we can change our mindset to believe we do have time. There's always enough time. I can always make time. We are likely to use the time that we have to create. We're likely to feel much more relaxed and enjoy it so much more. 
I used to totally buy into this. I mean, our society totally feeds us that if we're busy, we're important and that we kind of need to have a lot going on. And that's what we talk about. I just, wasn't super happy when I felt that way and was thinking that way all the time. And so I decided that I just wasn't busy anymore. Did you know that you can have the same number of things on your calendar and not feel busy? It's really amazing. I highly recommend this. 
I sometimes have people tell me like, oh my goodness, you have this business and you have four little kids and blah, blah, blah. You must be so busy. You must not have any time. And I always say, I have plenty of time. I'm not busy. And I really don't feel that I am. I actually am not very busy. I feel like I have all the time in the world for everything that I want to do and believing that has helped me too. Live that. And so I know it sounds all cheesy.
It sounds a little woo woo. To say, just think it just believe it, and it will become a reality, but in regards to time, I really do think that when we change our language and we change our thoughts about how we think about time and whether we have a scarcity mentality around thinking that there's just not enough time and it's not happening fast enough.
And, you know, we can't find the time and blah, blah, blah. It feels so different than saying, oh no, I have plenty of time. That always works out and I always have time for what I want to do. I believe that taking care of your creativity is taking care of yourself. 
So I hope that this episode helps you to make the time to create, to believe that you have the time to create, because if you believe that and you kind of put your brain on a mission to help you recognize the time that you do have, your brain will help you.
If you say, I really don't have the time, your brain will help you come up with all the excuses and reasons of why you don't have the time. So just pay attention and notice what your brain's doing. When you think about this is your brain like, no, I really don't have the time and I'm really stressed and I'm really busy or is your brain like, you know, I actually could find the time and I could think about this differently and I could do this while my child's doing this and maybe we could do this together. 
I think if we realize that we can give our brain a problem to solve, it will solve the problem we want it to solve. So if we say I'd like to find more ways to incorporate creativity into my life and use that time, that way our brains will help us. They're really smart, really creative machines that we have in our heads. Super awesome. 
Now, I wasn't always this way. As far as the scarcity mentality goes, I definitely have said plenty of times, I don't have time or I just didn't have enough time. And honestly, I still do. It's such a huge habit that we all have, or I should say most of us have in our culture to kind of give that reason or excuse that I still find myself saying, oh, I just didn't have time.
And that's okay. I'm not here to say you're never allowed to say that again, but for me it was really helpful to say, I don't really want to say that anymore. I don't really want that to be part of my vernacular or my just kind of like default messaging that I'm believing. I want to believe that I have the time and that I can create the time and that I can intentionally plan out how I want to spend my time.
I've said time a lot of times! 
I love the quote from the book Essentialism that says, if you don't prioritize your life, someone else will. I totally believe that. And I hope that this podcast does not make you feel guilty or shameful for how you spend your time. I want you to spend your time, however you want to. I just want you to be aware of it and that if you want to do other things, if you want to incorporate other hobbies or activities or hobbies, that you feel empowered and that you have some ideas for how to do that. 
I would love to know how you make time for what matters to you in your life. If you want to come over to my Instagram at hand letter design, I'd love to have a conversation over there.
And also as always, you can leave me a review on the podcast and tell me your thoughts. Every week I read a review of the podcast and if I read yours, you can send me an email and you get to pick free lettering course from our website. I have a bunch of courses on there. Chalk Art 1 0 1, the Summer of Chalk Art, which you get free when you get Chalk Art 1 0 1, Intro to Hand Lettering, Beginning with Brush Pens, Intermediate Flourishing. There's all kinds of goodness on there. So if you leave a review for the podcast and I read yours on here, send me an email. Hello. At hand lettered design.com. 
The review from today is from Danielle row 12. She says, I'm always telling my kids to enjoy the creative process and not lend too much weight to the end product. Why is it so easy for me to give them that direction and still feel like I'm no good at anything for which the end product isn't perfect. Thank you, Lisa, for the reminder that the process is more important than perfection. I enjoy listening to your perspective and pick up lots of great tips for my own creative and mindfulness practices as I try and cultivate better mental health for myself. I so relate to your journey. 
Thank you so much. Danielle, send me an email and we will get you one of those courses. 
I just love having you all here. I hope that you are enjoying this. I would love to have a conversation with you about your thoughts. If you want to come over to Instagram or in the reviews, like I said, I am going to be linking to the Guide to Mindful Lettering in the show notes. If that sounds like something you might be interested in, it's a great way to be creative when you are making that time to create. 
And I also encourage you to check out our freebie that we've created for the podcast. You can find it at committedtocreate.com. I will link to it in the show notes as well. It is five steps, five creative steps to less stress and more joy. And it includes a printable PDF and a video that walks you through it. I highly recommend checking that out. It's totally free and a great way to get into creative mindfulness.
Thanks again for being here. And I look forward to talking to you next week.
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Guide to Mindful Lettering
002: How Lettering Changed My Life
006: Guilt-Free Creativity
008: Failure Freedom
009: Creating with Kids
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Jennifer L. IN LOVE!! What a perfect idea! I am a plant mama too, like Lisa. I also manage a great deal of anxiety. I got into lettering a couple years ago as a creative outlet and discovered a multitude of treasures in the lettering community! This book that Lisa created with her daughter is just perfection! It's all the feels for me! Thank you both!!!
Cinthanie C. EXCELLENT BOOK! I really enjoy taking a minute each day to slow down and apply my hand to something that is not only emotionally supportive but relaxing and fun to do!! The mantras for everyday are very helpful for me. Thank you for your work and bringing such a high quality product into my life!
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