I talk about art, design, and creativity
1, Be a fan of your own work.
2. Don’t belittle yourself.
3. Don’t tell yourself that you suck.
4. Make time for your creative hobbies.
5. Invest financially into your growth.
6. Know what kind of feedback to listen to, and what kind to ignore.
7. Do it for yourself.
Here’s how to break free.
But first, you have to believe that it’s possible to create.
Here’s a truth.
I get creative block every day.
Until it’s time to sit down and write.
And to my surprise, I write.
Every single night.
I find out that I’m capable of producing a blog post, or an article, or a Tiktok even on days where I don’t feel like I can.
And that’s just how I’ve been rolling for 3 years.
It might be an unpopular opinion, but I believe that creative block is a choice for 99% of people here.
You have to overcome it by taking action (small steps are encouraged).
Need help?
I’m here for you.
Email me anna@habitfactory.space and I’ll hear you out. Not a sales call, no underlying agenda. I’m here to listen.
I think it’s the opposite.
There’s a rhythm and a structure to it.
(But creatives hate hearing that their mystical process has a structure. It’s more edgy to be mysterious).
The truth is, creativity is as hard of a skill as coding is.
The more you practice it, the better you’ll get at it.
However, most people won’t intentionally practice their creativity because they believe it’s supposed to be go-with-the-flow.
It’s not.
It’s more of a grab-it-and-seize-it type of deal.
And if you want in, you’ll have to challenge your current personal set of beliefs.
The law of diminishing returns is an economic concept that refers to the point at which the level of benefits gained from an activity starts to decrease after a certain level of investment.
In the context of the creative process, the law of diminishing returns suggests that there is a point at which adding more resources, such as time, effort, or money, to the creative process will not result in a proportionate increase in the quality or value of the final product.
For example, if a designer spends a certain amount of time on a project, they may be able to create a high-quality design that meets the client’s needs.
However, if they continue to work on the project for an extended period of time, they may reach a point where the additional effort does not result in a significantly better design.
In this case, the law of diminishing returns would be in effect, as the designer would not be receiving a proportionate increase in benefits for their additional effort.
Overall, the law of diminishing returns suggests that it is important to carefully consider the investment of resources in the creative process, as there is a point at which the benefits of additional effort will start to decrease.
Don’t wait for right moments, they almost never happen. Do this instead.
If you do it, you’ll start to feel differently about your creativity.
If you don’t do it, nothing will happen.
Do it.
You won’t do it.
Everybody is familiar with the taste of coffee.
Yet there are still a million different coffee brands around the world, each telling their own bean story or roasting process or how they want to brew the perfect cup over and over again.
The stories are all similar. After all, how many different ways can you really grow a coffee bean?
Regardless, millions still itch to tell their own coffee story, in their own voice, their own way.
Similar to a designer’s portfolio, a designer’s voice is everything. Besides the projects, besides the achievements, and the resume, your voice is one element that often gets overlooked when preparing a portfolio.
For me, I like to consider the following questions:
What do you naturally sound like to someone else?
Where are the people you want to connect with going to find you?
More importantly, are you going to be someone that other people similar to you want on their side?
Millions of brands of coffee, but we only choose to stick with a few because they sound like us.
Find your voice, tell your story.
We’re dedicating the next Habit Factory cohort to helping creatives like you build on your brand and portfolio. Find out all the information and register today at https://www.thehabitfactory.space/
It’s always a good time to invest in your own voice.
Hope to see you there.
The first one means you have to wait. Because creativity can be finicky, unreliable, and spontaneous, waiting for creativity to do its work can take an awfully long time.
On the other hand, letting a creative do her work is much more actionable and practical.
If the goal is to be someone who is respected for their creativity and craft, not done through waiting but by consistent practice, then we’ve got to let the creative do their work.
Adding onto yesterday’s story about iteration, I think the other part of why I instinctively dislike having to iterate is because the message I get is: try again, you lost, there’s an error, something’s wrong, it’s not good enough.
All of which is not great news for me, so yes. Cue the internal sigh as we do it another time.
Sometimes it just doesn’t feel like a step forward, but I know deep down that it is.
Even on our worst days, the designer will still design.
It might not be her best work, but she’ll be committed to the art of it.
And so she trudges along the bad day doing the best she can, mostly because she knows that a designer who stops designing is no longer a designer.
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