I consider this a good thing for the most part, but sometimes during my creative effort, I “create” more work for myself and more reasons to be anxious. Years ago, I read a book called the artists way by Julia Cameron. The entire book was how to use creativity to open up your life and figure things out. It’s an incredibly wonderful idea and her suggestions were a major help while I was reinventing my life.
At what point does my creativity become an addiction or an unhealthy way of piling more things onto my plate? I’ve had some friends and some of my students joke about my right brain and I have even asked some of my coworkers to help me reign myself and if I start to go off the deep end with creative projects.
Why would a creative project cause me to go off off the deep end?
It might help you to understand this problem if I tell you that I’m a workaholic and a perfectionist at times. It makes me a great party planner.
But it also causes me stress while I’m in the midst of a project.
Just like many things in our lives, we need to find balance. I struggle with this in many aspects of my life. Just like many things in our lives, we need to find balance. I struggle with this in many aspects of my life.
So, I am going to start a new system in my life. Whenever I think of a new creative project, I’m going to ask myself three questions:
Why?
When and realistic timeline?
Is the time and cost worth it at this time?
After I answer the three questions, I plan to find someone to run my idea by. My husband and some of my coworkers are great at helping me with this.
I won’t need to do this for small projects, but if I decide to start a new fish tank, or plan a new event at work, I really think this process could help.