Intention setting

On my latest art lesson on lifebook we are looking at intention setting and ritual. Yesterday I felt really tired and grumpy - I wanted to make art but I felt too bummed out. I thought back to my ritual that I am trying to incorporate into my daily habits: lighting incense. I am trying each day to take a moment out and think about where I am and what I am feeling in the now, in the present. To stimulate that, I light insence. What follows that thought is an intention directly related to my creativity and relationship with art. I lit my incense and took in my bad feelings, acknowledged them and set my inention: I won't put any pressure on myself, I will just spend the next hour catching up on my marketing work and then the next hour dtawing a cute girl. And then? I did it! After, I felt really good! I had acheived my (small yet significant) intention and as a consequence I was out of my grump... still tired but no longer emotionally tired. I am sat waiting for the bus now and thinking of my 2 minutes out I will take when I get home and I'm super excited for what my next creative intention will be...!