something I am grateful for today

[johncomic]

messages from the cosmos

Over the last few weeks, I have received numerous insights and tips from articles, books, posts, intuitions, etc., and they seem to overlap in constructive fashion to help me push through a recent creative roadblock. Here are some:

• I am enough.
• The act of creating has positive and nurturing value, quite apart from the resultant creation.
• The experience of creating is a form of mindfulness that has meditative value.
• A work isn't a failure simply because it isn't the sort of work that will find a mass audience. I am allowed to like it, and even be the only one who likes it.
• We can reframe self-criticism as ambition: “my work sucks” becomes “I want my work to be better”. This completely sidesteps the issue of whether or not we can objectively view how good our current work might actually be. I can actually be producing decent work, or good work, and still want it to be better. It doesn't have to be dissatisfaction with what I've done; it can be a desire to learn more and to grow.