Why I’m Doing 100 Days of Creative Prompts—and You Can Too

Career Focus Platinum: Impact
01 July 2025

Why I’m Doing 100 Days of Creative Prompts—and You Can Too

Do a creative act for 100 days straight.

Draw whatever picture comes to mind while playing the same song for 100 days.
Take a photo of the same spot every day for 100 days.

An NYU graphic design prof introduced this prompt to his students after 9/11 when he drew an image he took from the daily news every day for 100 days as a way of processing his pain and confusion. He found benefit in it and offered this design exercise to his students.

The Book of Alchemy

My book club is spending the summer doing The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaouad. It’s a journalling guide consisting of short excerpts from different writers on a variety of themes. Each passage ends with a daily creative prompt that, yes, we are doing for 100 days. The “creative act” example above comes from the book.

Creative Leapfrogging

Daily journalling leapfrogged my personal growth faster than anything else I’ve done in the past 10 years. Since 2022, with the kickstart of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, my ability to access my creativity and tap into right brain thinking has allowed me to problem solve more effectively and, generally, to live more holistically.

You are creative too.

You hold a creative spark within you that seeks expression.

Creativity may take the form of conversations, as it does for me as a coach. You may find it planting flowers or in the dance of martial arts.

The Path to Innovation

Creativity forms a necessary – critical even – component of career success.

Reflect on the frequency with which businesses discuss innovation. Innovation is business speak for creativity. All businesses must innovate or they stagnate and eventually die.

Innovation breathes life into organizations and so it does with you too.

Journalling Power

The power of journalling lies in the act of transferring thoughts from the mind to paper, facilitating the processing of feelings. It includes setting intentions and observing outcomes. Writing down thoughts can help build commitment. You then generate momentum as you get clear on what you want.

Let me insert a caveat here that regularly comes up with clients when I introduce the topic of journalling. I call that caveat “resistance.”

One technique to address writing resistance is to use prompts, such as those found in The Artist’s Way or the Book of Alchemy. Alternatively, you can click here for a list of 100 AI-generated prompts. Use them as a starting point and write back to tell me how it goes for you.

Resistance inevitably creeps up. Don’t be alarmed by it. Instead of judging the resistance, work through it. Recognize that resistance equals friction and that’s where growth happens. As Hamlet said, “Aye, there’s the rub.” Shakespeare was on to something!

May I congratulate you on experiencing resistance. Yes, you read that correctly. Congrats! Resistance means you’re growing. Even if you can’t see it in that moment, trust that you will when you reflect back at a later point.

Energetic Water Flow

These days, I handle writing resistance more gently than in times past. I imagine myself as water flowing over, around, and under the resistance.

While my natural style is to withdraw when facing resistance, I’ve realized that withdrawing the flow of water takes energy. I underestimated the cost to my overall performance from that energy loss. Think of resistance like a dam. Dams store water. They’re containers. What happens when that resistance is released? Water – energy – flows freely.

I encourage you to consider this Michael Beckwith question when encountering resistance:

If this experience were to last forever, what quality would need to emerge for me to have peace of mind?

Then follow up that question with, What’s the next best step? Not the final one but the next.

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