I’ve realized something about myself this week. I try too hard and sometimes I kill the creativity bug when it starts to poke at me. Generally, I’ll get an idea for something and I’ll sit down at the computer and start hammering on it. And I mean really hammering. I’ll sit there for hours trying to get it all done and complete and, frankly, I sometimes forget to have fun.
That’s kind of unfortunate because isn’t that the point? Why sit down to work on something if it’s not going to be fun in the end? It’s about the process and the journey and not the final destination, right?
So I need to find some way to remind myself to slow the hell down. Do a little each day and maintain my excitement rather than squashing it in a fire storm of furious activity that makes me never want to touch the project ever again.
Maybe a sticky note on the side of the monitor that says something like, “it can wait” or “it’s not a race”. And maybe I should wait until tomorrow to do that.