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How to Channel Your Inner Corgi

My sister sent me this goofy thing this week: 33 Animals Who Are Extremely Disappointed in You. I am completely in love with the Corgi at the end who thinks I’m doing fine and is so proud of me. Let’s face it: we all screw up constantly. We let ourselves and others down. We do [...]

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Why You Should Take a Chance on Your Creative Dream

In Week 1 of A Year With Myself, CA Kobu’s unique 52-week self-development program, author Patti Digh wrote about “liminal spaces” and compared them to that period when a trapeze artist has let go of the first trapeze but not yet landed on the other one. Besides expanding my vocabulary (FYI, liminal means at a [...]

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It's not who you are that holds you back. It's who you think you are not.

The Procrastinator in the Mirror

Over the years, I’ve come to think of myself as a procrastinator and even…lazy. I believe that I lack self-discipline. “I was never taught that,” I explain. It’s true. Things were pretty casual in my house when I was growing up, and other people’s homes that had that air of productivity and order always struck [...]

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The Inner Demon That Trumps Them All

In another post, Naked in Times Square, I listed many of the internal obstacles, or what I like to call “inner demons,” that pursuing creative work can bring out. To save you the trouble of checking it out, here’s the list again: Fear of judgment Fear of failure Fear of success Okay, lots of kinds [...]

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Naked in Times Square

Starting a creative project is kind of like walking around naked in Times Square. It’s amazing how all your STUFF comes up when you’re trying to express yourself. Stuff like: Fear of judgment Fear of failure Fear of success Okay, lots of kinds of fear Overwhelm Imposter syndrome Second-guessing Indecision Difficulty staying focused Procrastination Do [...]

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