Get Started: Revving Up Your Creative Energy
I like this quote. It’s a great reminder for me, and for anyone who wants to rev up their writing, art, business, or any creative endeavor—including life! Lowered expectations at the beginning of a process helps obliterate the paralysis that comes from expecting yourself to be unrealistically amazing all the time. Is there somewhere you can lower your standards in order to get started? Can you trust (even just a little) that simply starting will lead you to take the next small step, and then the next … and that whatever you’re working on will develop (sort of like a Polaroid coming into focus), sharpening and getting clearer and more polished along the way?
I know that lowering expectations helps me get started. It will also help me get this quickly posted right now, in the midst of several other projects, rather than waiting for a more perfect moment to write a longer post about the many enthusiasms I have for the gentle and deceptively-powerful Kaizen Muse Creativity tools and philosophies—creative support and va-va-voom that I’ve already written about glowingly here! Enjoy …
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Paula's Paradise 
August 3, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Great quote and such an inspiration. It always helps to let go and write without the critic on my shoulder and edits do happen later. Took a long time for me to arrive at that point though,but it is much more fun. Thanks for this post and I love the pic!
August 5, 2013 at 6:06 am
Thanks, Marina … love your idea of writing ” … without the critic on my shoulder …”; great thought. And you are certainly a WONDERFUL author. Thanks for this note!