This was excellent food for thought, Sandra. And I think you are right - we need creative pauses in a project to allow time for that often necessary problem solving. That's where a creative project that's less taxing is lovely to have on the the go while doing that pondering!
I don’t think you’re adding more excuses! I think that pausing a project at any point to figure out a solution or better course of action is very different from procrastinating!
Your thoughts resonate with me. I need space for creativity for sure...even for thinking I need to be alone in the house :D funny, but that doesn’t happen often and I feel my mind can’t get free because there is always something on the plate. Makes me anxious. My mind is always busy even when I am ‘relaxing’. How to tell if you are procrastinating or just being lazy? If you do nothing and actually feel good about it without guilt, you are resting properly or just being lazy. If you feel guilty and thinking all the time, trying to do other things instead what you really have to - you are procrastinating. And, indeed, you are thinking about the solution and then it comes ‘suddenly out of nowhere’, but it’s actually not.
Instead of calling it 'procrastinating', how about looking at it as 'breathing time' or 'breathing space'? This could be giving yourself the space to just sit with your ideas. Hopefully this might feel a bit more positive.
I often come to a point in a project especially with quilting where it needs a timeout. Sometimes it is months and it usually the best decision because the final result is much better for the wait. With knitting/crocheting it is harder and I have "frogged" and restarted more than one project because I was not happy with the result. Time to ponder is part of the creative process and is not procrastinating. 🇨🇦
I couldn't agree more, Sandra! When it comes to creating, sometimes the best way forward is taking a step back.
For me, procrastination applies to tasks about which you know what to do. There's some "obligatory" steps to take you already know how they look. Creative process is only involved in the sense there is some decisions to make about the "shape" of those tasks, in lack of a better word (like having a pattern to write or edit and having to decide structure and contents and layout of said pattern)... Not sure if I'm making sense... 🤓
May be call it crecrastinating? :)
Ha ha, yes!
This was excellent food for thought, Sandra. And I think you are right - we need creative pauses in a project to allow time for that often necessary problem solving. That's where a creative project that's less taxing is lovely to have on the the go while doing that pondering!
I don’t think you’re adding more excuses! I think that pausing a project at any point to figure out a solution or better course of action is very different from procrastinating!
Your thoughts resonate with me. I need space for creativity for sure...even for thinking I need to be alone in the house :D funny, but that doesn’t happen often and I feel my mind can’t get free because there is always something on the plate. Makes me anxious. My mind is always busy even when I am ‘relaxing’. How to tell if you are procrastinating or just being lazy? If you do nothing and actually feel good about it without guilt, you are resting properly or just being lazy. If you feel guilty and thinking all the time, trying to do other things instead what you really have to - you are procrastinating. And, indeed, you are thinking about the solution and then it comes ‘suddenly out of nowhere’, but it’s actually not.
Instead of calling it 'procrastinating', how about looking at it as 'breathing time' or 'breathing space'? This could be giving yourself the space to just sit with your ideas. Hopefully this might feel a bit more positive.
I often come to a point in a project especially with quilting where it needs a timeout. Sometimes it is months and it usually the best decision because the final result is much better for the wait. With knitting/crocheting it is harder and I have "frogged" and restarted more than one project because I was not happy with the result. Time to ponder is part of the creative process and is not procrastinating. 🇨🇦
For me, it’s that a knitting project isn’t bringing me joy so I put it down and work on something that is.
I couldn't agree more, Sandra! When it comes to creating, sometimes the best way forward is taking a step back.
For me, procrastination applies to tasks about which you know what to do. There's some "obligatory" steps to take you already know how they look. Creative process is only involved in the sense there is some decisions to make about the "shape" of those tasks, in lack of a better word (like having a pattern to write or edit and having to decide structure and contents and layout of said pattern)... Not sure if I'm making sense... 🤓
I’m the queen of procrastination these days ! My brain space is so low that I can’t can anything done
It feels like I’m stuck and I dint like that feeling
I live around and I have all these beautiful supplies and ideas and can’t get myself to make decisions
You are always an inspiration to me , but even than I seam to be stuck with decisions I can’t make