you make such great points here! working with three of my creative clients recently (I'm a business coach) I have 'prescribed' blocks of time to 'play' in their weekly plans - or as one of them decided to name them 'NFA days' (no effing idea!) because she wanted to just go into the studio with no expectation and no firm idea of what the 'output' would be. A recognition and defending of the idea that time to play and mess is vital to staying relevant, happy and creative. You are right that we need to get into different mental states to run a creative business, time to do the 'business stuff' for sure, but time to play and also time to do things like make to sell, prepare workshops, rinse and repeat type stuff. Great post x
you make such great points here! working with three of my creative clients recently (I'm a business coach) I have 'prescribed' blocks of time to 'play' in their weekly plans - or as one of them decided to name them 'NFA days' (no effing idea!) because she wanted to just go into the studio with no expectation and no firm idea of what the 'output' would be. A recognition and defending of the idea that time to play and mess is vital to staying relevant, happy and creative. You are right that we need to get into different mental states to run a creative business, time to do the 'business stuff' for sure, but time to play and also time to do things like make to sell, prepare workshops, rinse and repeat type stuff. Great post x