Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re

Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life
Go from overwhelmed, anxious, and stuck, to consistent, clear, and in control of your creative life.

If you feel like youâ€™re floundering in the deep end (Not waving, drowning!), and anxiety over the complexity and enormousness of your creative projects overwhelms you, stop scrambling to fit everything in and feeling stretched thin.

DIVE DEEP AND SWIM
- Sustain the energy you feel when thinking of how awesome your projects could be.
- Value your own creative work as highly as work you do for other people.
- Build a reusable structure and process that will consistently get you to the finish line.
- Blast through your stuck-ness.
- Focus. Finish. Move on to the next project.
Youâ€™re a creative person. Even if you have a hard time calling yourself a â€œwriterâ€ or an â€œartistâ€ in public, making your creative work is core to who you are and how you see the world. You may be harboring a big, ambitious idea for a project. Possibly a lot of them.

And itâ€™s killing you.

You lie awake thinking about itâ€¦and hating yourself for not doing more to make it real. And then in the morning youâ€™re exhausted, and you canâ€™t believe you â€œwastedâ€ more time on this stupid idea. Who ever told you you were creative anyway? You try to shove your idea away, to forget it. But your creative work is what keeps you sane. You canâ€™t not do this. So you live with guilt and anxiety all the time.

Youâ€™ve tried to carve out the time and attention you need to devote to your creative work. Youâ€™ve made ambitious goals, youâ€™ve written lists, youâ€™ve scheduled calendarsâ€¦youâ€™ve installed shackles on your desk chair. But chaining yourself to your work only seems to make you more distractible and more miserable. (And those unsightly leg sores!)

Maybe you've even tried to borrow time-management tips from the business world. Get things done! Build seven habits! Eat that frog! But following business-minded productivity systems just doesnâ€™t work for you. The issue isnâ€™t simply getting â€œthingsâ€ done, itâ€™s allowing yourself to devote precious time and attention to the vital, self-generated creative work that builds toward your vision for the future.

The problem is, the life youâ€™re living is already full. Youâ€™ve made a lot of promises, to yourself, your family, your friends, and your community, that youâ€™ll be there for them. You probably have a job; you may have kids. You may well have many competing ideas for your creative work. Where, exactly, can you find that mythical Creative Focus Unicorn?

In Growing Gills, youâ€™ll discover that the power is already within you to make your work.

The biggest obstacles to your getting your important creative work done lie in the unknowns youâ€™re facing.
Growing Gills takes you step by step through the process of pinning down exactly whatâ€™s stopping you from finishing your beautiful, inventive, and potentially game-changing projects.

Using the power of conscious decision, youâ€™ll build your own unique system for fitting creative work into your existing life, taking into consideration how you work best.

Like a custom-designed, powered exoskeleton, your personal system will bolster and support your creative practice day in and day out, so that you can grow up and grow old while continuing to make your creative workâ€¦without chucking out all the other connections to your family and the world that make your life rich and worth living.

GROWING GILLS: Breathe in the deep end.

With your purchase of the ebook or print edition, youâ€™ll also get:
- The Growing Gills Workbook for free
- A checklist to identify what specifically stands in your way
- An invitation to a 5-day free minicourse!
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-05-10
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-05-10
Format	Kindle eBook

Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life

Go from overwhelmed, anxious, and stuck, to consistent, clear, and in control of your creative life.

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