This was great! I'm currently reading Start More Than You Can Finish A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas by Becky Blades. I can't take credit for finding it, I read about it on either a social media thing or one of the many newsletters I read! It is on my list to better track where I find these things, so that I may credit the founder when I share them!
In any case, this book talks about just doing your ideas. Not overthinking them, just start. And see what happens. It doesn't matter if you don't finish, you may finish later, it may spark another idea, that you do finish. The point is to start, to explore, to create. Which I think is how I operate. A series of trial and error, starting before I actually know what I'm doing, and figuring out along the way! This book has finally made me realize, I think, that I need to stop trying to make myself fit into the planning, goal setting, plotting, organized way of doing work. That isn't how I operate. It's never been how I operate. I just do what feels right. And hope that it comes together! So I think I'm like Paul Cezanne, I just keep trying things to see what I like, and what works. And I'm going to keep doing that!
I've also placed a hold on the audiobook you mention. Seems like something I might enjoy!
I'm on vacation this week, visiting family on the East Coast, and it's fair to say I'm behind on absolutely everything. BUT I still am trying to keep up with my Julie! Which is good because the wandering method is definitely my method. 🤯 I love iterational work--and letting curiosity lead.
Unrelated: you might have hit on the only TV show from the 80s that I don't think I ever saw with Love, Sidney! I looked it up and didn't recognize the photo stills at all. Somehow, that made me simultaneously sad (I missed a show!) and happy (I missed a show!)
Good luck with Upbeat Polka this year! 🪗 Also, guess who has two thumbs and tried her first Cel-Ray today?!?! That's right! "It me!" Yum!
Thanks for highlighting this concept of building a career without a plan. I love the idea that he didn’t consider anything a wasted effort. Like he made a huge effort to learn an instrument and didn’t use any of it but still considered it valuable. Such a good way to go about the creative process! I get worried about “wasting time” working on the “wrong thing” and I struggle to prioritize my ideas. So this definitely helped. It really is as simple as following your passion because it won’t be a waste no matter the result.
This was great! I'm currently reading Start More Than You Can Finish A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas by Becky Blades. I can't take credit for finding it, I read about it on either a social media thing or one of the many newsletters I read! It is on my list to better track where I find these things, so that I may credit the founder when I share them!
In any case, this book talks about just doing your ideas. Not overthinking them, just start. And see what happens. It doesn't matter if you don't finish, you may finish later, it may spark another idea, that you do finish. The point is to start, to explore, to create. Which I think is how I operate. A series of trial and error, starting before I actually know what I'm doing, and figuring out along the way! This book has finally made me realize, I think, that I need to stop trying to make myself fit into the planning, goal setting, plotting, organized way of doing work. That isn't how I operate. It's never been how I operate. I just do what feels right. And hope that it comes together! So I think I'm like Paul Cezanne, I just keep trying things to see what I like, and what works. And I'm going to keep doing that!
I've also placed a hold on the audiobook you mention. Seems like something I might enjoy!
I'm on vacation this week, visiting family on the East Coast, and it's fair to say I'm behind on absolutely everything. BUT I still am trying to keep up with my Julie! Which is good because the wandering method is definitely my method. 🤯 I love iterational work--and letting curiosity lead.
Unrelated: you might have hit on the only TV show from the 80s that I don't think I ever saw with Love, Sidney! I looked it up and didn't recognize the photo stills at all. Somehow, that made me simultaneously sad (I missed a show!) and happy (I missed a show!)
Good luck with Upbeat Polka this year! 🪗 Also, guess who has two thumbs and tried her first Cel-Ray today?!?! That's right! "It me!" Yum!
Thanks for highlighting this concept of building a career without a plan. I love the idea that he didn’t consider anything a wasted effort. Like he made a huge effort to learn an instrument and didn’t use any of it but still considered it valuable. Such a good way to go about the creative process! I get worried about “wasting time” working on the “wrong thing” and I struggle to prioritize my ideas. So this definitely helped. It really is as simple as following your passion because it won’t be a waste no matter the result.