Following My Heart as a Creative

When I have an idea, my heart starts racing.

I feel like I can’t breathe.

I lose all focus. I literally can’t stop thinking about anything else.

It sounds like I need medical attention,  but this is what it’s like for me when I am truly excited. This was the feeling I had today as I started ideating videos and thinking about my creative business.

Over the past few years, my priorities shifted to motherhood and my career, so I didn’t have the time or energy to be creative.

I haven’t felt this fire for a long time and it’s all rushing back to me.

I have had countless ideas that have failed, and boy did I abandon ship as soon as something went wrong. But I have never stopped wanting to explore my creativity; I know I’m meant to build something.

I’m choosing not to abandon myself any longer.

Not everything is sunshine and rainbows. I’m not going to do anything perfectly.

I’m finally going to give myself a chance, no matter how much I feel like it’s “flopping”. Honestly, I need to experience a flop era so I can practice and be great later. Practice makes permanent and the only way I’m getting that practice is by letting go of the need to put out something perfect.

If you’re a creative who has abandoned your passions, I urge you to give it a try again.

Pick up that paintbrush.

Press record.

Turn on that sewing machine.

Don’t give up. Especially if you are a mother. We tend to lose ourselves in motherhood, but I urge you to find yourself again.

Pick up your hobby and do it for you and no one else. You don’t need to monetize. You don’t need to be perfect. You just need to do it, no matter your skill level or confidence.

Do it because you enjoy it. If you want success from it, you’ll get there eventually, I promise.