You’re killing your creativity, and I want you to stop

Let me preface this by saying, this is not your average habit-changing article. This is the only thing that got me out of a 2-year creative block and back to painting and writing daily. With that said, let’s begin!

Picture this: you woke up earlier than usual, like all these self-help blogs told you to, and went out for a walk. All the nature, the nice people at the cafe, and the general ‘god-what-a-lovely-day’ of it all really got you pumped, so you went home and sat at your laptop, ready to write.

But then Medium tells you there’s new articles curated just for you, so of course, you do that deranged thing of trying to see what othert poeple are up to.

What is the pulse of the morning?

That’s when your face drops:

tells you how she got 130,000+ eyeballs on her work by just birthing 2 articles daily (she adds, nonchalantly, with little effort). And now you’re focused on metrics, SEOs, and how to make it in the media. That, knowing full well you were only sitting down to work on a passion project, you decide nothing will ever be perfect enough to compete.