overcoming perfectionism

Why Starting Over is Nothing to Be Ashamed Of

January 11, 2010

Sometimes, you venture out without a plan. You don’t know what you’re doing or where you’re going, but you head out anyway because it’s the only way you can discover what it is you need to learn. Pluck, Paint, Click You pick up a guitar and hold it in your hands with no real knowledge [...]

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Themes Familiar: Why It’s Okay to Repeat Yourself

January 6, 2010

Regardless of what kind of artist you are, you’ll probably find yourself retracing the same steps and addressing the same topics. If you’re not careful, this can lead you to believe you are less than creative. Don’t go there. It’s far more likely that your life has a theme, a subject or a passion or [...]

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The Resistance List: An Overview of Everything You’re Avoiding

August 31, 2009

Author’s note: This article from an issue of Quiet Inspiration was discussed on last night’s episode of Inspired at Home. I decided to post it here so everyone could access it. Resistance. What’s it all about? I wish I knew. Seems like we’re always resisting something and there are days when we seem to be [...]

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Take a Break from Being Excellent and Become Something More

July 30, 2009

Excellence. Perfection. They’re things we’re all striving for or at least dreaming about. We want to be masterful, powerful, sensational. We want to do something difficult and make it look effortless. And maybe you’ve found your thing, something you latched onto and poured yourself into until one day you discovered you were really quite excellent. [...]

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Seven Ways and Reasons to Start Things You Won’t Finish

June 25, 2009

Rules are like cockleburs.  They attach themselves to you without you noticing, until one day you look down and see them, a whole mess of should’s and have-to’s clinging to the edges of your life.  One of the rules you may have picked up along the way is the notion that you have to stick [...]

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