Your success is moving according to its own unique time frame. You’re not a failure, it’s just not your season to thrive yet. Just because you think you’re ready, doesn’t mean you are.
Just because you feel you should be further than you are doesn’t actually mean you are supposed to be. Slow down and stop rushing.
There is a time to:
- brainstorm/visualize
- prepare/gather resources
- work/create
- procrastinate/rest
- succeed/complete
Stop forcing yourself to create. Every individual step you take is unique and must go in the order it’s meant to.
Do not go rushing to complete your projects. Give your creativity the time it needs. Remember, this is a process so stop blaming yourself for having one.
Stop rushing your way to the finish line and have faith in your timeline. Equally as important, let no one rush you — not even yourself.
Creative minds are intimate places
Premature interference can easily ruin the foundation of inspiration and harm motivation, under all the wrong circumstances. Creativity has its own schedule.
Look at the speed you’re moving, this is your pace. Your season of success is coming. It’s not time yet, you are still blossoming. Your projects will bloom soon enough. Have patience.
It took me a year to complete this article and sometimes that’s the process. Because if this article was supposed to be our sooner,
It would’ve been.
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This post was previously published on MEDIUM.COM.
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