Embrace Your Creative Process
I am recording this week\u2019s podcast from a hotel room in Calistoga, CA where I\u2019m focused on finishing the manuscript for my book, Bring Your Whole Self to Work, which is due August 1st. I find myself knee-deep in the creative process, having completed about 37,000 words of my intended 60,000 word objective. I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to inspire my creativity, specifically my writing, and how we\u2019re all creative in some way, even if we all demonstrate it differently.
In this week\u2019s episode, I talk about how we can understand and embrace our creative process with more awareness and self-compassion.\xa0 So often the hardest part of the creation process is dealing with ourselves, not the project itself.\xa0 What do you need to have in place to nourish your own creative process?
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Key Takeaways:
[1:27] I have a love-hate relationship with writing.
[5:29] We all create in different ways.
[10:49] Embrace your creative process.
[13:39] Writing is more than the physical, practical process of the written word.
[15:46] The vulnerability of the creative process is what holds many people back.
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Resources:
Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation, by Mike Robbins
The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... FAST, by Josh Kaufman
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