As creatives, you’re exposed to so many different people, that are all doing their damnedest at trudging their way through life at varying stages of their creative journey and personal development. Some being at places where they’re healing, and breed positivity, and others, less so, stuck in negativity.

Regardless of the stage you’re at (while still taking it into consideration), it’s important to take note of who it is that you’re spending your time with and the effects your social circle has on your creative and personal development.

At the end of the day,
the only one who knows what’s truly right for you, what’s BEST for you- is you.

..and even more importantly..

..what we often need the most, what we KNOW we need most.. is usually the harder thing.

The reality is, learning in general takes something that we all seem to not have enough of these days.. and that, my friends, is time.

There is no shortcut to the process of learning, be it through reading books and articles, listening to albums and interviews, or taking pen to paper and writing down all that we see, hear, and experience.

Choose that thing that makes you excited to wake up every morning, and BE all about it.

It can become so difficult to recognize what true value is in all that we compare ourselves to in the sea of content we are consuming.

We can so easily lose ourselves into the all-too-well known doom-scroll, highlighting all that we WISH we could have or be; career heights we aspire to reach, beauty standards we hustle to keep up with, and enviable lifestyles we pressure ourselves to achieve in order to feel like we’re living our ‘best lives’.

But what are all of these things really worth?

We all have a general understanding of what success means, and for most of us, we think of it and almost immediately jump to our most common understanding of what it means on the outside- that is, the tangible; what we can see, touch, and feel. What others can see, or touch, or feel.

But we must ask.. In regards to your personal, creative, and even professional life-
how satisfying of a definition is this definition of success?

The thing is, we are all what is standing in our own way, and our brains, in their infinite glory, try their best to help us by rearranging this fact through attributing the blame of all of our problems to all these external factors- timing, other people, specificities of circumstances.. You name it.

But the reality is, we are our problem, but we are also our solution.

We don’t need to fear mistakes. We can not only accept mistakes, but rather, in the most positive of ways, expect mistakes, trusting that they’re of vital importance to our growth.

There’s no perfect time to start. As they say (someone says it, promise)- yesterday is gone, and tomorrow isn’t promised.

..so what are you waiting for?