Hi, Reader,

I hope you and yours are well. It's May 31, and I am well. We just adopted two gray kittens, so now we have 5 cats, 2 birds, and 1 rabbit. One is never alone in my house.

My studio is getting a facelift! Here is the work in progress. The metal siding looks so much better.

What I Have Not Been Doing

I have not been working with glass the last couple of months. I don't exactly know why. But I have been drawing, a lot. Part of me is planning to use some of the drawings to print glass decals that can be fired on glass.

A Drawing Habit

A drawing habit is the easiest thing to start and maintain. Any old paper and pencil will do. And guess what, when you start drawing, dopamine is released. Isn't that wild? So you start making some dumb marks on paper, the dopamine starts firing, you start to feel good about your drawing, and then you want to draw more. Here's one of my new drawings.

New drawing

Advice from Others about Building Habits
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1. 20-second routine method: You can actually work more intuitively and find hidden energy by showing up in the easiest possble way. Ideally try to make the showing up take less than 20 seconds. How can you change your environment to allow for this?
2. Habit stacking: If you have a habit, such as taking lunch at a certain time, you could add another habit right after, such as walking. The idea here is you trigger the new habit with the old habit.

Try doing the thing for 30 days. See what happens. You can always switch things around after 30 days.

Until next time!

Mora

P.S. If you are interested in trying out the glass painting course, but have a question, shoot me an email. Or if you can't afford it, but would love to take it, I will give it to you. Seriously.

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