Author: Creative Overthinker
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Overthinking My Relationship with Cooking
Cooking has been such a controversial topic for me over the years. I took my time thinking if I should even bring it up – after all, it’s such a source of insecurity for me. I feel complicated about it, so I’d love to hear about experiences and opinions of other people! Personally, I loathed…
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The Artist’s Way: Week 4
Welcome back to The Artist’s Way series! This is my take on Week 4, Recovering a Sense of Integrity. This week has been about keeping true to myself. Now that I’ve supposedly figured out my hobbies, things I’m interested in, and things I still want to learn, now’s the time to do them.
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The Artist’s Way: Week 3
Welcome back to the series of The Artist’s Way, Week 3! This week I was recovering a sense of power. A lot of it had to deal with childhood memories of having fun and things I was into, while trying to harness the sense of possibilities and power in current life.
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The Artist’s Way: Week 2
Recovering A Sense of Identity Welcome back to my 12-week journey of the Artist’s Way! After a week’s delay due to unforeseen, but very welcome circumstances, today is the last day of week 2, and I’m excited to share my experience with you! This chapter was all about recovering my own voice and embracing my…
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3 Ways to Apply Marie Kondo’s Tidying Up Rules to Creative Life
Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing has been on must-read lists ever since it got translated into English in 2014. With her show live on Netflix, everyone is going through their stuff on a search of items that spark joy in their lives. Given the…
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The Artist’s Way: Week 1
Recovering a Sense of Safety Week 1 was all about recognizing my limiting beliefs, uncovering hurtful memories, and remembering people who contributed to my creative journey in both positive and negative ways. It was also about establishing a new daily habit – the Morning Pages, and a new weekly habit – the Artist’s Date. You…
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Overthinking a Morning Routine
Let me start by saying this: I am not a morning person. I am not excited about getting out of bed no matter how important or interesting my plans are. While I’m still wrapped in a cocoon of warm blankets and soft fuzzy cats, I couldn’t care less what a new day brings. It’s been…
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The Artist’s Way – Join me for a 12 week Journey!
If you’re an overthinker like I am, you need to read Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. This book takes the reader on a 12-week journey of creativity, reflection and unblocking. We all have our own understanding of concepts like creativity, inspiration, and talent. Some of them might have been discovered through our own experience, and…
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How to Choose A Name and Domain For A New Project
Naming a new project is hard. No wonder you are totally overthinking it! Coming up with good ideas for a name always takes time, but the longer any good ideas get dissected, the sillier they start to sound until it’s hard to remember what was good about those ideas to begin with. First, let’s admit…
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(Self)Serving Marketing
Marketing is a fascinating subject to learn. For someone who does marketing for a living, it becomes a point of view, a way of thinking about the most trivial things. Just like a used car salesman can find a positive side to the worst car out there, an experienced marketer can find a convenient spin on…
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