This month is exciting because my guide, How to Feel Like You Have Enough, was published in The Creative Independent. The piece is a deeper dive into my writing on scarcity mindset, which I've talked about here.
I'm excited about this project for a couple reasons: 1. I got to collaborate with my dear friend, the talented illustrator Sarah Lutkenhaus, and 2. I got to work with an editor.
As a solo-preneur who is used to doing everything on her own, my writing process usually involves a lot of caffeine, a light spell check, and crossing my fingers. Sometimes if I'm lucky, I get my partner to proof-read something, at which point he'll inform me that I have no idea how to use a comma (it's true, I don't). Needless to say, getting to work with an experienced editor was a game-changer. In our conversations about scarcity mindset, my editor got me to reflect on the question:
Why do creative people feel like they'll never have 'enough'?
Here's what I said:
'...As artists, we are constantly having to advocate for our value — at work, in galleries, within academia, and in society at large. This sense of scarcity is reinforced by jobs that don’t provide healthcare and contract-based employment, leaving us to feel that security is in short supply. Or perhaps, if we have a full-time job with some security, we experience a scarcity of time for creative projects we care about. Basically, it’s easy to feel like we’re failing in many different arenas at a time. If we’re succeeding in one area, we’re catching up in another.'
If these ideas resonate, check out my guide, How to Feel Like You Have Enough. It talks about how scarcity mindset affects us and steps we can take to see more opportunity and potential in our creative lives.
