Don’t Work on Projects Too Long

You are a highly creative person. Creative people have loads of idea energy; our minds buzz with creations, connections, tinkerings, and excitement about the things we are currently making and things we aspire to make. Our creative energy is always present - it drives us to make art, design things, and dream of what will be new and what will be better.

But there is a trap that creative people need to avoid. We can spend hours, days, weeks, and months changing one of creations without actually making it better. We stall. We get stuck in this feedback loop which will rob us of our true output, the output of creating more things.

The root of the problem goes back to our creative idea energy. Remember, we are creative beings with a need to be making things. If we don’t have the courage to decide that our current project is done, we will keep working on it…and keep working on it…and keep working on it. Our buzzing creative energy will always find new ideas to try out on this one project. There are perpetual ways to change our current project, because our aesthetic taste evolves a little everyday, and our artistic sense is always being honed. We’re always learning, processing new information, and having meaningful emotions and experiences. This forward motion fuels our creative fires and provides us with new ideas. We need to apply these creative juices with forward momentum, working on many projects over time instead of being stuck changing one project infinitely.

So… our creative energy needs to be put to use, we have a need to make things. If we keep only one project in front of ourselves then we’ll tinker ourselves to death by revising that one project. If instead we decisively finish… then we may apply that same creative energies towards a new creation. New projects feel like play, old projects feel like work.

Our creative energies improve our projects only until a certain degree. Beyond that we are just changing our projects without actually improving them. Onwards 💥