Procrastination. This is something that I think we all suffer from, especially when dealing with creativity. What is something you are procrastinating on doing? If you are like me there are several different things that are being put off till later. Sometimes procrastination gives us time to think, to analyze the projects ahead, and can therefore be rather useful. But when we continue to push projects down the road, there may be something brewing that is not useful at all. Fear. Fear can be at the root of both procrastination and of perfection. Fear tells us we should not start yet ‘because we aren’t ready’, or ‘because there are more important things to do’, or ‘because it wont be good anyway so why start at all?’ Fear even tells us that it wont be perfect (which it won’t), and therefore is not worth doing at all (which, of course, it is).

There are tricks to pushing past procrastination, you can find them with a simple google search. But ultimately, like anything, creative action requires practice. I don’t mean practicing a skill, though that too is great, I mean practicing doing. Make the doing of it a habit. Draw or write, for 5 minutes a day, if that is all you can manage, and you can go from there.

But for today, maybe think hard about the thing that makes you procrastinate doing the things you love and then make some art around that.