Ten Minute Artist - Drawing and Journal Prompts

Ten Minute Artist - Drawing and Journal Prompts

Gameplan 2026: July 6 Cohort

Gameplan Project 1: Sacred Time - Day 2

Time Tetris

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Adam Ming
Jul 07, 2026
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This is day 2 of Sacred time, today’s dispatch is titled Time Tetris. You can checkout the entire Gameplan here.

If you’ve not done Day 1, please start there.

A note on the assignments: It’s nice to see that so many of you know when your high voltage times are, from early in the morning to when you find your seat on the train. I hope you’ll be using one of those high voltage times to do today’s assignment.

If you can’t that’s fine, better to do it than wait for perfect circumstances, but if you do use that high voltage times you’re going to get a little bit extra out of it.

The assignments are a codified and visceral way for me to communicate some ideas to you, not everything can explained, and even if they can, I’m choosing not to explain everything upfront, so just know you will be learning by doing. I don’t mean to be a strict teacher or a demanding parent, maybe a coach.

So if coach (me) says make a drawing, or do some writing, try to do all the steps. You’re converting an idea into a thing in the world that you made by hand, and that is a powerful thing.

Also at the end of 30 days (or whenever you can manage it) you will need to submit your assignments, they won’t be graded but they will need to be complete for you to receive Part 2: your personalised 30 day project.

Looking forward to seeing more of your assignments, there will be a week after the last project to send in your assignments.

With that out of the way, welcome to day 2:

Time Tetris

“People sleep more, work less & have more leisure time than they imagine”

— Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam is a time scientist.

Not the kind that thinks about time travel, rather the kind that studies hundreds of participants from all walks of life to see patterns in how they spend their time.

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