Having trouble starting your creative habit?
Wrestling with the Monkey in your head?
Here’s a helpful little video I made for you — with some assistance from Shia.
Caution: Contains a little, well, yelling — which may offend those with delicate sensibilities and fragile eardrums.
Danny Gregory 
❤ No time to comment, must go DO IT.
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Oh! Hits right home! Thanks Danny! Thanks Shia!
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brilliant, love this, thank you. I will do it, but first I just have to…
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Thank you xx
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Oh, have I been there! Trying not to fall back in that monkey pit!
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😀 😀 😀 😀
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great 🙂 it is so true
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That’s funny and so true ! :)…gotta straighten those pencils, and pens, etc. etc. first.
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Yep – that about nails it – my pencils are already sorted so I guess I’d better get started….back later.
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I am still laughing. This is SO what I do. I even tried to figure out the brand of the colored pencils, and noted the size of the sketchbook, as if that mattered! I will take this and JUST DO IT, as soon as I do some other things…
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That was great! Laughed through the whole thing… At first glance
I thought I was seeing Will Wheaton LOL Point taken. Time to find my pencils.
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Great video!
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Thanx you guys I needed that.
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I’ve just snorted my Twinings Gingerbread tea out of my nose for giggling. 😂😂
The thing is, if your pencils and paintbrushes aren’t all lined up and perfectly straight the world might explode.
Er.
Won’t it? 😕
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I had to figure out the type of colored pencils too, great video. Thank you…just do it indeed!
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Sorry, Danny, but I much prefer positive encouragement much more than this bossy, abusive approach. Participating in the Every Day in May and June challenges has gotten me going, sketching and painting every day, using skills gleaned from all the wonderful SBS Klasses. Thank you! Cheryl “Sherry” André
Sent from my iPhone Sherry André
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You did it AGAIN! Every day for a few weeks now I have let everything else I needed to do get in the way of my journal sketching and watercolor practice. Now, I have the fear monkey on my back. What if I can’t sketch any more (as if any skill I acquired just vanished) what if. What if??!!!! This video was hysterical, Danny! I am writing this down NOW. TODAY I will put something, anything, in my sketchbook. I think about drawing all of the time. Perhaps what I create in my mind is so much better than what I can really do.. GO PLAY IN TRAFFIC MONKEY. You are too heavy for me to even pick up a pen!!’ As always, thanks, Danny. You really do rock. Karen
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Love it! Need it! Thanks!
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Very clever! And a little bit timely…… 😉 Thanks!
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Umm, I do not like this. I do not like being yelled at. There are other ways of talking the monkey away.
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Thanks, guys. This is so right on. Sometimes I need a little encouragement….maybe not yelling; but, that was funny. I sort of yell at myself like that. I’m going to finish the three paintings I started yesterday…right after I finish my coffee.
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In the dentist office listening to the video (using ear buds) and laughing…it was so me!
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Danny, thanks so much therefor! This comes just in time, because my monkey mutated to a big fat monster during the last few weeks …Ugh! 🙂
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Yep, I’m with those that don’t like the yelling…that’s what my monkey says “DO IT, just do it…why are you always complaining about finding time? You’re such a moaner”…. to me that’s not a Pep talk, that’s bullying…
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Goin’ on a little vacation…brought lots of art stuff…left the ukulele at home…just gonna do art ….even though my fingers will be itchin’ for my uke…..this is just an ART TRIP,
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Hey Danny your video is so much more than funny to me. There was a band in the 70’s called B.T. Express that sang a song called Do It (Til’ You’re Satisfied)
Goes a little something like this
Ooooo
Go on and do it
Do it ’til you’re satisfied (whatever it is)
People know just what they’d like to do
Whatever it is you got it as long as it pleases you
Make it last as long as you can
When you’re through it’s up to you to try it again
Go on and do it
Do it, do it ’til you’re satisfied
Just take some time and relax your mind
Then do it, do it ’til you’re satisfied
Then you holla woo-hoo hoo-ooooo
Go on and do it
Got to do it
Do it slow
Just do it some more
I’m satisfied
heh-heh
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Absolutely hilarious but totally loved it!!! 🙂 What a FUN reminder.
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Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!
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Thanks, I really needed that!
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Love it!
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Loved it! Thank you!!!
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This video was great! I had my earbuds in and was lazily going through your posts when I clicked on the video. Hey, yo, I’m awake now! The artist in your video reminds me a lot of, well, me. Sorting through and organizing art supplies. I have another brand new sketchbook that I’m afraid to make a mark in because I don’t want to make a mistake. The sketchbook looks perfect and pristine right now, why mess it up? I’ve been trying to gently remind myself that I am not perfect and I constantly make mistakes. Pobody’s nerfect. Somehow, I’m still alive and well. I’m thinking of calling my new sketchbook – A Sketchbook of Mistakes and Imperfections. Maybe now I can make that mark.
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