Dr Rachel Connor

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Nobody Wants to Pay for Your Newsletter.

"Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure. Unfortunately,”

Gay Hendricks • The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“Why is this so hard? Because you’re utterly habituated to steady progress—to completing things, to producing, to solving. When progress is subtle or slow, when there’s no clear way to proceed, you flinch away. You redirect your attention to something safer, to something you can do. You jump to implementation prematurely; you feel a compulsion

Andy, Matuschak • Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

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Why You're Not Doing Creative Work

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Crossing the Threshold: The Moment Your Story Becomes an Adventure

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STUCK CREATOR. You want to make work, but you’re not getting anywhere, whether because of conformity, economic pressure, or fear. You’re open to a creative reawakening, but you’re unsure how to light the fire.

Chase Jarvis • Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life

Creative grief

"The basement of creativity holds our deepest fears and wildest dreams. We must descend its stairs to find the raw materials of our art."

- Carl Jung, from his essays on creative process

Connecting into why it’s valuable. Sometimes you get so lost in a project that you forget why you started it in the first place, or why doing this kind of work is important to you at all. If you reconnect to that, you’ll raise the perceived value of doing the work in your brain—and it will make it easier to stick with. Try writing about why the... See more