Hi Reader! How's your week going? I'm always adding to my collection of things from around the internet that made me feel touched and/or inspired. (The collection box being my photo gallery π
) I thought Iβd share a few recents in case you needed a bit of inspiration, distraction, or delight. πΆ This really beautiful animation hollywarbs afraid, but facing it . . . guitar is a track called βplusβ from the album βpas chassΓ©β by loyalty freak music. I combined it with audio recordings from my...
3 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
Hi Reader! How are you doing? I'm back, I recovered from surgery, and I'm ready to get to work! π€ There was a part one to this email (you can read it here) and now I'd like to share part 2. Honestly, weβre about halfway through the year and itβs time to step things up. We all know how important it is to have confidence + good self-esteem. It includes beliefs about how skilled we are, how capable we are, plus whether we are likeable. It affects every area of your life. ESPECIALLY creative...
3 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
Hiiii Reader! I don't know about you, but whenever I hear someone saying "create more than you consume" I'm just like oouuughhhh Because they are very right to say that. But also sometimes I just cannot get off this thing π²π²π² I'm not here to get all negative about scrolling and make us all feel bad though. I actually wanted to talk about how I'm on a Big Mission to have more self-confidence. Obviously a big part of that for us is going to be creativity and creative work. (I'm also doing a...
5 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
Hiiiii Reader ππ» Is it just me... or is everyone starting to sound the same π A lot of my favourite creators and favourite newsletters are melting into a generic-sounding "voice". And it's because of AI content π¬ AI can sound "like you", but it doesn't necessarily feel like you. It uses characteristic phrases and sentence structures that I'm getting really bored of reading. ChatGPT is great. As someone who is easily stressed and struggles with planning and decision-making, it's so useful for...
6 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
Goooood morning Reader! Lately I've been doing some new things to reconnect with my creativity (it felt extremely lost the past few years π
) I've been spending time outside, touching/smelling/looking at plants and stuff to feel more grounded. I've also been playing with paints, pencils, and oil pastels just for funsies. Being online or working on computers, a lot of us are rarely doing stuff that is... physical. We don't really use our body much. (And I don't mean just in terms of exercise,...
7 months agoΒ β’Β 2 min read
How's it going Reader! I never expected I'd be able to use AI efficiently to help me with stuff. I was convinced that text-based AI like ChatGPT was just for churning out cringey slop. And considering the damage that image-generating AI has done to the digital art industry... I'd rather just avoid the whole lot. Evil stuff. But I definitely see the merit in using AI tools to help with tasks you otherwise struggle with. Especially as most of us are doing our creative work entirely on our own....
7 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
Happy Thursday Reader I want to get real technical and nerdy today. π€ Let's talk about the things you actually need when you're in the foundational stage of creative business. The internet loves to tell us that we should be making money immediately from our creative work. And that we're doing it wrong if we can't do that. Hmmm......... this is not reality for the majority of people. The foundational stage of a creative business can last months or even years. (It has indeed been years for me...
8 months agoΒ β’Β 5 min read
Hey Reader! Today I wanted to remind you that the great things you're envisioning for yourself are infinitely more important than your statistical "successes". I saw this YouTube Short recently. And I thought ough that's so real. Numbers follow us absolutely everywhere don't they... and most of the time they carry so much shame. They restrict us and keep us stuck! I'm always amazed by that type of person who is fueled by their own inner creative vision. Someone who doesn't let numbers get to...
8 months agoΒ β’Β 1 min read
Hi Reader ππ» Do you mind if we talk a bit about decision-making today? Specifically, the art of saying "no". For many of us, this is a severely neglected skill. It's something that takes a long-term practice of patience, gentleness, and self-trust to develop. We default to saying "yes" to everything. We're surrounded by a culture that preaches doing more, harder, faster, better. Going against this is a gem. Taking Burnout Seriously In the specific case of burnout, itβs not a sign that you...
8 months agoΒ β’Β 3 min read
