Final one of these, I think!

Most of the time when I’m struggling to do a ‘something’, that something is creative somehow: writing, card making, drawing, guitar – I’ve mentioned all these things before. Even my geeky side wants in on the action: I want to create websites! I often end up berating myself for not doing these things I so want, for being lazy, or unmotivated, or just scared of failure. Such a relief, then, a different perspective, when someone quite off-handedly and matter-of-fact-ly uttered: “Oh, but creativity is hard.”

It sounds rather obvious, but it was just such a lightbulb moment for me. I’m not struggling to ‘create’ ‘cos I’m lazy: it is actually a daunting prospect! And sure enough, my planned Risk challenges all revolved around creativity. And I struggled, because I keep trying to tell myself that it’s not scary – it doesn’t matter if it’s rubbish, it’s the trying that counts, blah blah. And then feeling bad for not quite managing to get to it…!

So. Perhaps acknowledging that the act of creating is scary and difficult might help? I hope so! Because no matter how hard it is for me to find motivation and start, I so crave to be doing the creative hobbies I’m interested in!

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I meant to write something about how I/we tend to forget the sweat that goes into creating, as the best creative types make it look so easy – just remember how much practice those people have had!!