You Can’t Build A Reputation On What You Are Going to Do – Henry Ford – Procrastination is a beast, and I deal with it daily. Among other people, it feasts off of BlockedCreatives. Procrastination may be a result of Fear or Perfectionism, or it might be caused by any number of emotional issue, but…
Category: Fear
Let’s Allow Ourselves to Be Imperfect – Perfectionism Is An Enemy to the Creative
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life…. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway…
Fear Is The Creator’s Worst Enemy – It Traps Us & Prevents Us From Moving Forward – Fear Causes a Type of Death
Fear is the worst thing that can happen to anyone who hopes to create. Fear Is A Type of Prison. Fear prevents the painter from painting, and it forces the writer to edit himself literally to death. Barbara de Angelis wrote an excellent treatise on Fear in her book Secrets About Life Every Woman…