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Your Creative Workload Is Dangerously Precarious (Here’s How to Fix It)
When you’ve taken on too much, the slightest slip-up can result in catastrophe for all your creative projects.
Earlier this week I was walking from the living room to the kitchen to put away a few groceries I’d just picked up.
Between the fingers of my right hand were wedged two glass bottles, one kombucha, the other, juice. My left hand had a hold on my jacket and a rather large, round block of cheese, with a bag of apples tucked in the crook of my arm.
Halfway to the kitchen, one of the bottles begin to slip between my fingers, followed closely by the other.
As the bottles wobbled and slid, I instinctively dropped my jacket and the block of cheese from my one hand and just managed to regain control of both of the bottles, as well as the apples before they crashed to the floor.
Disaster (read: sticky, spiky mess) averted.
The incident got me thinking, however, about how often we get ourselves into trouble in our creative lives by first loading ourselves up with more than we can carry, and then, trying to maintain control of it all when one piece begins to slip.
