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Four questions to help you begin each creative day intuitively
Every day is different. The way you feel, your energy and enthusiasm, your creative work and the challenges it entails. It's all constantly changing.
As a natural planner, this element of uncertainty is something I've always struggled to make room for in my plans, even when I've considered them flexible.
So lately, I've been doing something different. Instead of trying to control what I can't control, I've begun my creative days intuitively.
Dealing with the urge to overwork
Think of the stereotypical picture of a writer. Either he (because the stereotype is a he, right?) is walking around in agony, stuck in writers block, furiously procrastinating. Or he’s writing in a frenzy, in the claws of his muse, and all is well.
But is it?
Treating lack of time, overwhelm and stress in your creative work by choosing less
We all seem to want more time.
Time to create, to pursue dreams, to build our ideas.
To live, to breathe and to slow down.
We fantasize about the things we’d be able to do and create if only we had another day in the week.
We try to squeeze in more activities than our lives can hold, trying to make it work and often ending up sacrificing those precious slow moments.
We need more slow in our creative lives
We live in a world that is obsessed with more and faster.
When I started to create regularly in 2016, I wanted to do it all. I wanted to stuff as many different creative projects into my life as possible. Quickly finish my first novel. Learn to paint and open an Etsy shop. Post on Instagram every day. Write one blog post and one email for my Teacup Owls every week. While working a 9-5 job.