Creative Floozy
- Anika Yuzak
- Jan 29, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Feb 29, 2024
I love the feeling of creative inspiration; the rush of new ideas is as thrilling as having a new crush. I get flooded with ideas for movies, paintings, business plans, novels, posters, and bumper stickers. I love the first blush beginning of a project coming together. The right person, the perfect setting, the sense of things falling into place, being met by the universe in planning.
But lately, I've realized that while I love having so many ideas, having too many projects can be a form of self-sabotage. I read somewhere that the enemy of any good idea is another idea, and for me, that's true. Sitting in a sea of unfinished projects can make me feel like a creative floozy.
I've been trying out a type of creative monogamy where I choose just one or two projects to focus on until they're complete. It's been working for me. There is a feeling of satisfaction and forward momentum that I like.
I'll probably always be someone full of schemes and plans. I'll almost certainly get caught up again trying to do too much. But for now, I'm discovering that there may be something valuable in being creatively faithful to just one or two men...I mean projects.
