💬 how do you balance your creative projects with your life?
tell us how you maintain focus for big creative projects when you don’t have a bunch of time or energy to spare
They say writers get their butts in the chair and write! But this writer has chronic pain and other invisible medical conditions that make it difficult to show up for their art. And yet, I’ve finished a book of poems that will make its debut soon and I’m at work on a new book.
You don’t have to have big pockets of time or an abundance of energy to make progress on the creative work that matters to you. It would be nice! But you don’t need it.
In the comments, let’s share our best tips for completing big creative projects (like writing a book, building out a new business offering, or painting a gallery-showing’s worth of art) when you don’t have the luxury of taking a sabbatical from life. I’ll go first…
New here? If you could use regular reminders to let your playful, artistic, creative self take up space—that don’t gloss over the ways that’s hard, I write The Creative Courage Project for you:
Until next time,
Ryn
President of The Creative Courage Club
I have a book’s worth of things to share, but for now I’ll share the one thing that has helped me most: Deciding that this project I want to work on is worth the effort of finding the space for it in my life.