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The Cure for the Creative Blues
And all it takes is three minutes at the end of each workday
If you are a creative person regularly involved with challenging projects — the kind unlikely to get results overnight — here’s a simple practice to save you from the all-too-familiar phenomenon of depressing yourself by focusing on the proverbial cup being half-empty.
At the end of each work day, acknowledge yourself for all of the progress you’ve made that day — small, medium, and large. But not just silently, in your head, verbally — aloud.
Most creative people, no matter how inspired they are at the beginning of a project, eventually end up feeling down in the dumps.
Yes it’s true. The default condition for most creative people is to focus on everything they haven’t done and everything that hasn’t happened instead of the progress they’re making and the fact that they are actually getting closer to their goal.
What I do at the end of each work day that works like a charm, whether I’m in my car, walking, or washing dishes, is speak out…
