When you don't have the energy to do the work but you know you need to

Ahh Muses! Lots of feels today!

Maybe it’s a delayed New Moon purging?

Or my body has had it with days of broken promises about having a bath / nap?

Or a bit of a wild beary mode (check out @soulmodes!)

I feel very tempted to hide under blankets + sleep forever.

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I know I’m avoiding. Falling into old habits of numbing

Or maybe I just need to purge for the next breakthrough

Whatever it is, I’m so glad my brain has simple frameworks to hold onto.

I’m so glad I’ve allowed myself to embrace that I need a certain sense of “accomplishment” + my ambition isn’t to be dismissed

I’m so glad I still believe in my vision & still feeling called to my dreams (even if they feel a bit delusional right now)

I’m so glad that I’m at a place with my creative process that I may doubt my marketing & my ability to help other creatives... but I never doubt that my creativity & flow is available & waiting patiently for me.

So days like this where I want to stay paralysed while feeling guilty & still not being able to drag myself to “do the work”

I come back to my anchors

  • > MINDSET & MEDITATION: Journal & prayer

  • > MONEY: check in & belief work

  • > MAKING ART: work on my current focused project to build my art, share my voice & grow my business

  • > MARKETING & Sales: - inviting my community into my art & creative world

  • > MULTIPLY: behind the scenes work that helps me multiply my work (repurpose content, share my artwork, reach more people)

  • > MOVE: Move my body. I keep forgetting this!

  • > ME TIME: getting alone time to think, play, unravel, hear my own thoughts

  • > MUSE MENTORING: client work, engage with community, build relationships

I try to do one small thing for each of these each day — even if it’s 5 minutes.

Even if my ego keeps mocking me about how pathetic and insignificant it is. I know, if I can add a tiny step forward in each area - it feels like a good day.

Even with all the feels.

It’s how I choose courage

It’s how I choose progress

It’s how I DARE to take my art & creative work SERIOUSLY

What are your anchors?



Brenda Mangalore