Put your cell phone on a table. Call it from another number. Watch your phone vibrate. That’s how I feel when I have that perfect, brilliant idea. I’m so excited that there’s a buzz rippling through my whole body. I relate to your cell phone. Do you?
Now keep the phone vibrating. Soon enough it falls off the table. It hits the floor. What was once exciting energy is now stress. It’s no longer fun. That’s how I feel when I get stressed.
Creativity thrives in excitement. But it dies in stress. That moment your excitement turns to dread, you lose your edge.
The funny thing is, the same mechanisms are at work in stress and in excitement. Both contain risk–uncertainty. They contain deadlines. They contain long to-do lists.
The circumstances are the same. The difference is in your attitude–whether it’s insecurity or loss of motivation. It’s all about attitude.
Are you stressed about a project? Has your excitement turned to dread? Step back. Remember your previous excitement. You can do it. You don’t need to be stressed. Regain your excitement. Create and love it.
I have to do it now while I have both the excitement and the time. Once my time runs out so does my creativity. And when my creativity and time are gone in comes the stress.
nothing like working on a project whose deadline was yesterday…right? 🙂
I have to do it now while I have both the excitement and the time. Once my time runs out so does my creativity. And when my creativity and time are gone in comes the stress.
nothing like working on a project whose deadline was yesterday…right? 🙂