I’m nearly halfway through the #100dayproject and so last week’s blog post became process time.
In 20203 I’m working hard to create three habits: 1) process time, 2) project time, and 3) self-care time. Getting each of these habits into place stresses me out some days. Of course it does, since I’m training my brain.
But last week, I had an epiphany.
Even if you include process time, project time, and self-care time, you will still get tired as a creative. Your brain goes a bit foggy and you start to look around a bit too much at other creatives and their work and you start to get a little bit judge-y about your own work and that starts to take its toll. This happened to me last week, even after having excellent conversations with my critique partners and my writing peeps, so I spent a lot of time on process (do it for the process!) just to regain my creative energy.
And it worked. Wow, did it work. There is now peace around the work, which always comes when you stop looking at other people’s progress and there is courage around the work now too. Call it self-determination or whatever.
As a recovering perfectionist, I forget that I will fall down, lose faith, and have to get back up again. But I’m not alone. This is the creative process.
Consider this a reminder for this week: do it for the process.
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