If you are reading this, chances are, just like me, you have a project in mind but don’t know how and where to start. You are deeply aware of a desire in your heart and soul to create something simply because it’s ingrained in your being, but you can’t move past your creative vision to actually start doing something.
I’m not sure of your creative pursuit or dream, but I’m here to tell you what I’ve been learning—that today, at this moment, you only need to start small.
Start small, start compact, and suddenly you’ll have begun to create.
And then you are no longer looking at a blank page.
John Hegarty, On Creativity
The beauty of starting small is that you can make it playful and fun—Open a blank document and type a few words, a sentence perhaps. Put that pencil onto paper and draw tiny sketches if that is all you can muster to do today. Dip your paintbrush and start with one color on a blank canvas. Play the first note. Weave the first knot. Dance the first step.
In the spirit of practicing what I have been learning, I am writing this first blog post on this website I registered five years ago. It took me five years to embrace my creative side before figuring out what I wanted to do with this website and where I wanted it to go.
Blank pages can often become dauntingHave you ever felt stuck, unable to move on and In the spirit of starting and restarting a project, if you will,
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