How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care

am filled with fear, but the point is, I still show up and I still make things. It isn’t that the fear goes away.

for anyone who is using work or tasks or habits as a way of escaping their truest self, which, if you ask me, is making something: a home, a baby, a recipe, a shop, an installation, a new dance, a blanket.

you know when you concentrate best and work around that so you can recover during hours that aren’t optimal. Or vice versa.

whose work is deeply embedded in the forever noticing and being a part of.

radical way of existing and working.

Just because you can take your computer anywhere doesn’t mean you should.

Often, I get paid for jobs that feel easy and don’t feel like work, then I do a bunch of them and implode, burning out because I accidentally forgot I was working.

I also limit the time I spend on administrative work. It shouldn’t take all day. What’s more frustrating than spending the whole day dreading and avoiding, when the task takes only ten minutes? There are a billion other things I would rather do than avoid the work.

negative self-talk, I step away and connect with my actual inner thoughts.