EMOTIONAL MASTERY: A CURE FOR CREATIVE BLOCKS

Burnout, writer's block, foggy brain!

If you're a creative person, these words probably send shivers down your spine.

That's because you know how frustrating these feelings can be(most probably from experience).

Now,

Depending on what you do;

Writing, design, music, painting, e.t.c

These “plagues” can affect you in various ways.

The end result?

Depression for some, self resentment and anger of not being good enough for others.

This leads you in a downward spiral towards what every creative person should avoid:

GIVING UP.

But there's hope!

The power of emotional control.

Acknowledging that you're human and that it is okay to not have ideas sometimes.

Not allowing your lack of ability at some point to dictate your overall view of yourself.

This is why I'm a lover of the stoic philosophy.

Stoicism for short.

Stoicism teaches us that our inner situation controls our outer condition.

Simply put,

How you control how you feel determines how your life turns out.

Therefore to design the life you desire, you must design your feelings to not be reactive to situations around you.

So if you're a creative and you feel your creativity is failing you,

Or you feel you're beginning to lose your creative genius

And this is making you to lose motivation to continue,

Or generally make you feel bad in any way, then take this one thing away from this post today:

In simpler terms;

It is not your current lack of creativity that upsets you, it is what you associate with it.

THE PERFORMANCE COMPLEX

The real problem is that you have mentally programmed yourself to feel bad when you don't perform as well as you want creatively and that further affects you emotionally, which results in a lack of motivation.

This image explains it better:

This doesn't just apply to creativity but also to business, sports, family and every important area in your life.

Hopefully in the future, I will breakdown emotional mastery.

But till then,

Apply this and KEEP WINNING.

Your friend,

Mike❤️‍🔥