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Why Creative Progress Takes So Long to Appear (Even When You’re Putting in the Work)
We all feel like we should be moving faster. The reason that’s so hard, however, is surprisingly obvious.
For the first 10 years of my creative endeavours, I lived in nearly a constant state of frustration that things weren’t progressing as fast as I wanted them to.
On any given day, the focal point of that frustration may have been related to income, audience growth, skill development, or more likely, all of the above… plus a dozen other areas where progress felt painfully slow.
Of course, we all want things to happen faster than they often seem to be happening in the moment.
Indeed, no matter how quickly things are actually moving, we seem to feel that they could always still be going faster.
This is especially frustrating when things don’t seem to be moving at all.
It’s no wonder why we feel this way.
The reason so many of us embark on our creative journey in the first place is to escape some dissatisfaction with our current circumstances.
Perhaps we feel stifled, uninspired, or worried that we’re wasting our potential doing work that doesn’t use our…
