What a crazy week! Last Sunday, my friend Andrea and I launched Inspiration System on Instagram. Two Saturdays in a row, I went to concerts. I’ve talked to more people about creativity in the last week than I have months. What does this mean? It means I’ve got support behind me! I may be an…
Tag: creative process
Creating an Environment for Growth with an Inspiration System
If you’ve been following the blog, you know I believe in systems: automating processes to expedite progress, stay inspired, and move forward. Writing every week helps me tangibly track my progress. I record my thoughts and include next steps to help you. But what better way to keep this creative, collaborative progress going by sharing…
5 Summer Systems
I have many goals for the summer, with the ultimate endgame of using my time to be outside as much as possible, doing something local with good company. When creating systems, I think of the endgame first and work backward. What that looks like? Making habits as small and automatic as possible so that I…
April in Review: How do you maintain a habit?
Have you ever heard the phrase, “If it’s meant to be, it’s up to me”? There’s a lot of work in maintaining good habits, and this phrase is particularly encouraging. A lot of folks struggle with starting something new, but what happens when you finally overcome that first mental hurdle of starting? You keep it…
How I own the mornings, with my e-d-c-b-a system!
I set a generic goal of “own my mornings again” in 2019. I am now embracing a specific system! I don’t have an Instagram-friendly morning of an acai bowl and yoga, but I love my mornings. The memes are true: Beyonce also has 24 hours in a day… but the only thing I know about…
Can creatives be minimalists?
I’m a creative. And I’m working on minimalism and, as you’ll see on Goodreads, essentialism. Our digital culture loves buzzwords (which is a buzzword in itself) because on a surface level, they help group behaviors and ideologies into lifestyles, and even titles. Internally, they help people find one another. But these titles can separate people…
March in Review: 3 ways I’m maximizing the creative process and how you can, too
Hello, friends. It’s been a while since I’ve written last. I recognize that. I could choke it up to a down server. Certainly, life happened, too. I’m still writing, at work, on behalf of two organizations in my service work, and on Goodreads. Instead of focusing on the past, I’m making lessons out of life,…