Episode 172: Happy Creativity

Those of us who do creative projects do them because they make us happy. But sometimes we get frustrated instead. In this episode, Janine and Shannon discuss how to stay happily creative.

Discussion topics include:

• Shannon's unhappily stalled creativity

• The illustrated story-telling event that Shannon is participating in

• How practicing creativity less frequently can make it less enjoyable

• Shannon's regret that she didn't keep up her visual diary through the pandemic

• Creating parameters to make a daily creativity practice easy

• Turning off your inner critic while you're creating

• Janine's hand-lettered task lists

• How an organizational infrastructure can help you stay happily creative

• How adding limits can increase the happiness factor

• The inspiring daily creativity practice of one of Shannon's friends (check out the show notes to see the images!)

• Pondering letting a daily creativity practice be easy

• How perfectionism can get in the way of happy creativity

• Shannon's question to herself: What's the smallest thing I can do every day that would make me happy?

• The wacky way we came up with this topic