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Permission to Create Junk
Creative work is like training in a gym. Some days you get your best moments with great ideas and somedays not.
Great ideas will flow in when you go through a volume of work , put in your repetitions , and show up over and over again.
Stay consistent and give yourself space to make a masterpiece and even create junk along the way.
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If you don’t have a schedule forcing you to deliver, then it’s really easy to avoid doing the work at all.
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Power of a Schedule
World's greatest artists depended not upon creative inspiration or motivation but on consistent patterns and routines :
- Franz Kafka repeated his strict schedule - job, lunch, nap, exercise, dinner and writing.
- Maya Angelou wrote for 7 hours in a rented hotel room and returned ...
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Schedule is a System
The schedule is the system that makes your goals a reality . If you don’t set a schedule for yourself, then your only option is to rely on motivation.
It is essentially to avoid saying this to ourselves :
- "I hope I feel motiv...
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If you’re serious about creating something, stop waiting for motivation and creative inspiration to strike you and simply set a schedule for doing work on a consistent basis.
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Give Yourself Permission to Create Junk
Successful writers do not write elegant first drafts, nor do they feel wildly enthusiastic and confident.
Creating something useful and compelling means you have to permit yourself to let the inspiration flow. You will write a lot of junk but can then sift through it to find bits and p...
How to find your creative genius
- HOW TO BE CREATIVE:
- Give yourself permission to create junk. It's like being the gold miner - sifting through dirt to find a speck of gold.
- Create on a schedule. Create consistently. Genius arrives when you show up e...
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