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7/12/2021

Doodle & Flow 7-day Challenge: Tree of Life

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This challenge is designed to be completed in tiny little chunks (5-10 minutes) over seven days, but as with everything in Doodle & Flow, complete it at your pace on your timeline.  Feel free to string it out over seven weeks or binge it in seventy minutes.  It is your practice. Do as you wish.

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Day 1: Your & Doodle Your Life
Brainstorm major events from your life (in words). You can write a list, paragraphs, or just keywords - don't worry about spelling or grammar.  Now, draw quick, rough sketches / doodles to represent each of the events from your life (you'll use these later)

Day 2: Doodle Your Tree
Draw the trunk, roots, and branches of a wild and rambling tree. Leave lots of room on the page (between branches / roots) to add more details. Use permanent black ink.

Day 3: Decorate Your Tree
Add the items from your life to the branches and roots of the tree in permanent black ink. Consider where these items fit:
  • Are they peak experiences near the top of the tree?
  • Things that shaped who you are so they live in the foundation / roots?

Day 4: Color Your Tree
Color the tree and the items you added. Consider the distribution of color across the page. Sometimes when coloring the objects, I step back and fill in all of the yellow bits at once so I have yellow distributed across the page not all clumped together. Other times, I just color from one side to the other and see what falls out.  Don't overthink it - just follow your intuition.

Day 5: Add Flair
Go back into your doodle and add flair to the items from your life. Flair means color, sparkle lines, shadows, patterns.  Also add things outside the tree that you aspire to experience, achieve, attain. Just doodle the essence of these items... maybe a heart for love or the sketch of a map for a place you'd like to visit.

Day 6: Observe Your Tree & Yourself
Take time to sit with your tree of life. Hang it on the wall. Look at it with a relaxed mind for 5 minutes or so. Hold your blankbook and a marker in your hand while you look. Reflect on the highs and lows. Make notes of what you observe in your tree of life.  Ask yourself questions that you will answer tomorrow.


Day 7: Reflect on the Process
  • What have you learned about yourself during this challenge? During this life?
  • What stands out in your tree?
  • Where did you choose to put bright colors? Somber colors?
  • Where do you see the most detail?
  • Does this tell you what you value in your life - or what you pay attention to?
Share a photo of your doodle on social media and in the Doodle & Flow online community! 
Hashtags: #doodleandflowpractice #flowersandvines #molinecreative
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It is about insight, not art.

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Doodle & Flow is a process that is designed to put you in a "flow" mindset and help you tap your intuition, your creativity by allowing your mind to wander, gently.  The flow space allows your spontaneous brilliance to emerge, so please do not get caught up in the drawing and art-making of Doodle & Flow. This is about process, not product.  Allow yourself play and see what arises!

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7/9/2021

Doodle & Flow Challenge: Flowers & Vines

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Day 1: Flowers
Draw a series of slightly wobbly spirals that will become simple roses... or you can draw any other type of flower.  This is about the process, not the product.  Draw whatever brings you joy.

Day 2: Vines
Add vines. Consider adding curls to your vines and working out what it looks like when the vine winds around itself (it appears smaller as it moves away from you).

Day 3: Flair
Add color to your vine and consider adding flair like grapes, flowers, bugs, bees, birds.

Share a photo of your doodle on social media and in the Doodle & Flow online community! 
Hashtags: #doodleandflowpractice #flowersandvines #molinecreative
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Doodle & Flow is a process that is designed to put you in a "flow" mindset and help you tap your intuition, your creativity by allowing your mind to wander, gently.  The flow space allows your spontaneous brilliance to emerge, so please do not get caught up in the drawing and art-making of Doodle & Flow. This is about process, not product.  Allow yourself play and see what arises!

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6/4/2021

Personal Inquiry for the Creatively Curious

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Have you woken up in the middle of the night because your mind was racing through your busy to do list?  And then drifted peacefully off to sleep after you wrote the list on a notepad beside your bed? 

If so, this post is for you...

I have been keeping a journal, diary, or sketchbook for the past 30 years.  Over that time, I've learned to use doodling and writing to shift the speed of my thinking depending on what life requires of me.  There are times when my brain is moving slowly and I can't get motivated to work on a writing project, so I sketch out what I am going to say - not outline what I am going to say, but doodle a picture of what I am going to say - and my mind warms up   Other times my mind is racing so fast that I can't think deeply enough to solve a client's problem, so I clear the chatter by writing quickly or making lists.  I use this process, which I call Doodle & Flow, daily to meet life's challenges. 

Recently I have started sharing the process of Doodle & Flow with colleagues and friends.  Because much of my own learning has come from personal writing, that's where we're starting.  Together we are building a community of creatively curious people who want to shape their own thinking to quickly generate new ideas, thoughtfully consider their lives, cultivate stronger relationships, and live intentionally.   I can't wait to share the doodles that these amazing humans are creating and the insights that are emerging for them.  Stay tuned for Doodle & Flow... coming July 20th.

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