| Creativity. It’s a blessing and something I believe we all have. The hardest thing about creativity is that it can be very illusive. It can feel like that nebulous goal in a dream that continually gets farther and farther away the more we run towards it. These days with all of the distractions that we have at our fingertips to allow us to procrastinate with ease, I think it’s not surprise that creatives didn’t find themselves as productive during COVID-19 as they thought they would be. To give some grace, it was weird. We also had children or spouses or roommates at home with us which probably didn’t help. To get back to adulting, its certainly no excuse to do nothing because quite frankly, we had the TIME. If you are feeling a bit overwhelmed by how little you accomplished during this season (and on going season) of COVID19, you aren’t alone. But there is a better way to deal with it other than eating the entire box of Thin Mints you remembered you hid in the freezer. That is: surrender. Surrender yourself to what has passed. Surrender yourself to the vision you had of the future before shut-down. Surrender yourself to the idea that you WILL die one day and you DO want your creativity left here on earth. SURRENDER. To the truth that creativity takes work. That creativity takes discipline. That someone is waiting for your creativity. To the idea that if you HAD died already, the world would have been left with a black hole of empty: that place where your art should be. So… Write. Draw. Paint. Bake. Throw clay. Put together necklaces. Sew. Dance. Sing. Do it today and stop waiting for tomorrow. Stop watching and reading and wearing and listening to other people’s art and make your own. |
Ep 238 Can Dictation Help Your Writing? with Guest Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer
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September 23, 2024