#CREATIVE DOUBT (reading time: 2 min.)

By Mary Boza Crimmins

#creativedoubt. I first read the phrase “creative doubt “in a hashtag on LinkedIn. I’ve long suffered from it.  Do you as well? Creative doubt leads to creative procrastination. What’s that? It’s getting caught up in “preparing to ship” your creative product, but never “wrapping it up.”  I’d listen to inspiring podcasts, toss an idea at a friend, read how-to books, make lists. I’d dabble. Nothing was completed. Nothing was shipped. Nothing was shared for public consumption. There was, of course, the safety of nothing being opened to criticism, but there were also all the lost possibilities of connecting with others. 

The tension that arose from creative procrastination led me into creative angst. “Well, it wasn’t a good idea anyway,” my lizard brain repeatedly reminded me. “No one will get me,” my ego shouted. “It won’t be profitable,” my pragmatic alter self nagged. The tension led to suppression. And suppression took me down the road Henry David Thoreau named “quiet desperation.”

So today I encourage you to nurture and even indulge your creative self. While we who are creative will always have some creative doubt, we can end the procrastination, angst and suppression. How? By supporting each other. After all, thoughts count when you make them happen. #Becreative #endcreativedoubt #thoughtscount 

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