Happy Friday!  It was a long week for me and I am grateful for the weekend.  To kick it off, I made the choice to walk (versus drive) to a few of my afternoon appointments and explore a bit of my city.  I don’t know if I did this consciously or not, but I’m glad I did.  Exploring by foot is always more fun than zipping along in a car to get to my destination.  I took a half hour walk through a new neighborhood and on the way, I found a guitar store with the some beautiful instruments in the window, saw a historic cobblestone road lined with a canopy of trees, and I uncovered a few lovely new parks.  I even found some places that I had been to but hadn’t figured out how to get to by foot.  Taking the walk gave me time to breathe and slow down.  Moving slowly and deliberately through my afternoon allowed me to appreciate my surroundings; a significant contrast to the zip zip zip of the work week.  I hope to keep the pace slow and my sense of exploration with me through this weekend.

What choices can you make to slow down and enjoy your day versus zipping through it?  Is there a new place or even a familiar place you could explore?

Have you heard of this concept of a 100 days project?  It is a project that encourages you to do something creative for 100 days.  I was thinking, could I do this and encourage myself to write a blog post every day for 100 days?  Instantly, I was like whoa, that seems like quite the commitment, and I’m not sure I want to do that.

It’s definitely something I’m considering, and I like the idea of it, especially because i’m trying to nurture my blogging habit.

My friend Rachel just undertook a 365 day mandala project and it was SUPER inspiring.  Check out her stuff if you are interested on her website.

I love the section in the 100 days post by the Great Discontent where we are asked to choose our action…and they provide us with a paragraph of verbs to kick off our creative thinking!

What would you undertake as part of your 100 day project?  What verb jumped out at you from the list?