I’ve been having a hard time creating outside of these daily 1-minute posts.
My new year resolutions were to write one additional longer form article each week, create two new digital product guides, and create my first ever video course.
I have barely made any progress at all on the latter two goals and have published only a handful of new, longer form articles since the new year.
The feeling I’m having is one of being too wrung out—like a sponge who has been squeezed too tightly and is only left with a dampness and a slow trickle of fresh water to re-soak with.
I can think back to times when I was creating easily. Busting out longer form articles almost daily… creating guides with volumes of enthusiasm… building digital ideas well into the night—even on weekends and holidays.
Which isn’t what I’m feeling now. And I’m learning to be accepting and mindful of it so as to not stop showing up or quitting—this is a comfort zone trick—but to keep showing up anyway while simultaneously feeling every bit of what I’m feeling.
This is the real trick: to merge with what you create so that what you create can help make you. Every part of the journey matters. No part should be skipped. Now is the time for a heavier focus on refilling. Soon, it’ll be time for another season of wringing. This is what the mindfulness and acceptance allows… a complete cycle.
…Which might be worth considering if your art is chronically incomplete.
P.s. In case you missed it, you can read the best of what I posted to MoveMe Quotes last week, here.