creating more spaciousness in my mind
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the antidote to overplanning, creative paralysis, and time pressure— to live in the creative flow.
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why you’re feeling stuck, and how to get back in creative flow — by aligning with your creative metabolism and workflow, and tuning into creative birth/death cycles.
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on growing a creative business as an emotionally-driven artist — dealing with moods and energy, creative procrastination, paralysis inertia, and guilt.
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vulnerability is a muscle of accepting potential pain
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Read Morewhy do what feels good is only compass you need to navigate the wilderness of being alive
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ways of combating the feeling of “not enough” when you’re addicted to sweet taste of accomplishment
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When you’re working for yourself, the hardest part isn’t doing the work; the hardest part is juggling all the little things surrounding it. In this post, I’ll share how I compartmentalize, juggle, and manage all the different types of tasks I do as a one-person operation.
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When I first started doing creative projects, I would often get sucked into this corrosive cycle— grandiosity, inertia, guilt— and eventually become paralyzed. In this post, I write about how the paralysis happens, why it happens, and some strategies I've used to overcome it.
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On days when I’m feeling overwhelmed or derailed by unexpected events, I feel this incredible urge to vegetate. As in: chuck my to do lists out the window and just binge-watch Netflix and eat fruit snacks. Instead, I’ve learned to quiet the all-or-nothing voices in my head, and settle for a little less.
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When it comes to undertaking any daunting task — building a business from scratch, creating a piece of creative work, or aiming for some other ambitious goal - it’s too easy to get bogged down in the details. As a long-suffering perfectionist with a submerged urge to prove myself to the world, I tend to say to myself: OK, let’s take this from the top, and make sure everything I make is perfect and beautiful before I continue.
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This blog post by Keri Smith is one of my favorite advice letters I've ever read, so much that I feel like I need to print it out and reread it when I'm feeling discouraged.
She writes about the paralyzing effect of the pressure we put on ourselves for creative work, the importance of paying attention to the energy we feel when we do things. Do more of what gives you an open sense of energy, and less of what doesn't. It's that simple.
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As a hyperactive planner, I really love making New Years resolutions. I’ve been making big goals since I was a teenager at home during winter break (and spring break, and summer break) — long lists of things I was going to accomplish, groundbreaking habits I was going to form. Of course, I rarely actually did any of them.
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