1423: Creativity for fun's sake (Throwback Thursday!)

It can be so easy to get lost in the things we feel we should or need to be doing. If it's been a while since you did a creative project just for fun, today I'm giving you full permission to do just that!

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Good morning Daily Peppers and a very happy Thursday to you. If you're looking for some encouragement, some verbalizing, and you just wanna start getting out of your own way and stop being your own personal dream shitter, you've come to the right place. Last week on the daily pet for episode 165, we really dived into this idea of creating without the shoulds. And I think that's something so many of us get caught up in. We get caught up in the things that we should be creating, what projects we should be working on. And sometimes in our effort to get our work seen, get our work out there, or really reach our creative goals, I think we can tend to be really strategic. And on one hand, that can be really, really good, but sometimes we start to lose why we started creating in the first place Rather than being a fun and joyful thing where we can just get lost in the flow, creativity almost becomes another to do list item. So if you're feeling like this and I know a lot of us struggle with this, then today I really want to remind you that it's okay to use your creativity to have fun and do projects for fun sake.

It can be so easy to lose the joy and it can be so easy to feel all the pressure, But I'm betting one of the reasons why you've made creativity a big priority in your life is because it's something that you really love. And along the way, we all have times where we start to lose that and we start to forget why we started in the first place. So I just want to remind you that it's okay to do things fun and invite you to start some kind of creative project that you just do for fun's sake. It doesn't have to mean anything. It could be a really silly gift for a friend's birthday. It can be pretty much anything you want it to be. The only criteria is that it either has to bring a smile to your face or you just do it for the hell of it. So it's an extra short and sweet one today because I just wanna give you full permission to do something creative just for fun sake, not to worry about the outcome, not to worry about sharing it, not worrying about the meaning behind it.

Just do something for fun. Our creativity gives us a huge capacity to find joy and just be silly. And I think it's about time we just rose to the challenge. So find something silly, find something fun for you, and create for fun's sake. It will help get you out of a rut. It will help you remember your why in the first place. And if the only thing it does is makes you smile, well, that's a good outcome in my books. I'll see you back here bright and early tomorrow morning.

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