The Upspiral: Start Your Journey to Sustainable Creativity Today

What does it mean to Upspiral?

It’s a new way to think about performance as a creative.

I’m excited to guide you through this transformative process. This week, we’re focusing on establishing your current baseline—a crucial step in understanding your creative rhythms and habits.

How do you make the most of this material?

I will post an article each week with work to complete and a discussion of parts of the book and workbook.

You can find the book and workbook here. Not all the weekly content will be in the article. That is the case this week.

By the end of this year, you’ll have the finished book and workbook.

You may be one of those people who wants the book to read from front to back, then act.

Let go and embrace the process.

Just focus on this week and doing the work asked for the next seven days.

This week, we’re focusing on establishing your current baseline—a crucial step in understanding your creative rhythms and habits.

If you feel like you need to know more, then go read the content for this week.

Your mission this week:

1. Read the introduction of Oscillations and the first section of the workbook.

2. Track your creative oscillations

• Record this data daily in the attached spreadsheet.

• Use a sleep tracking app or manually record your sleep times and quality. I use an Oura ring.
• Note this information in your Daily Log.

4. Reflect daily

• Each evening, answer the reflection questions in your workbook.

5. Reflect weekly

• Complete the weekly tab to reflect on the data you have

6. Complete the week 1 challenge

• At the end of the week, write a short summary analyzing your current digital and sleep habits.

Remember, this week is about observation, not judgment. We’re creating a map of your current creative landscape, which will be invaluable as we progress.

Tip of the week: Approach this task with curiosity. You might be surprised by what you discover about your habits and rhythms!

Looking ahead: Next week, we’ll use this baseline to experiment with a digital detox and focused sleep improvement.

Visualize yourself at the end of this 45-week journey. How does it feel to be in complete harmony with your creative rhythms?

Here’s to your Upspiral!