counterprodcutive habits

From Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act:

Thoughts and habits not conducive to the work:

• Believing you’re not good enough

• Feeling you don’t have the energy it takes

• Mistaking adopted rules for absolute truths

• Not wanting to do the work (laziness)

• Not taking the work to its highest expression (settling)

• Having goals so ambitious that you can’t begin

• Thinking you can only do your best work in certain conditions

• Requiring specific tools or equipment to do the work

• Abandoning a project as soon as it gets difficult

• Feeling like you need permission to start or move forward

• Letting a perceived need for funding, equipment, or support get in the way

• Having too many ideas and not knowing where to start

• Never finishing projects

• Blaming circumstances or other people for interfering with your process

• Romanticizing negative behaviors or addictions

• Believing a certain mood or state is necessary to do your best work

• Prioritizing other activities and responsibilities over your commitment to making art

• Distractibility and procrastination

• Impatience

• Thinking anything that’s out of your control is in your way

Pretty good advice for living your Authentic Life, too.

See you tomorrow and keep pursuing,

JC

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