Being in a Creative or Energy Hole is Part of Life
After Four Days of Covid, I Am in a Creative Rut. I Feel a Bit Lost, but This Is also Part of Life.
I currently feel very uninspired and have no ideas for a post for today or the next days. My energy levels are pretty low. I had covid the last four days, and still feel very low and unmotivated.
I’ve been down with Covid for the past four days, and the lingering fatigue and lack of motivation are real.
It’s funny, in a way. Here I am, feeling pressured about not putting out an article for KnowledgeCollective.
And it’s paradoxical because I’ve often written about the importance of not putting undue pressure on ourselves. Yet, now I find myself struggling to accept that my creative flow just isn’t what it was a weeks ago.
This hurts.
It hurts me as I really like to express myself, but currently, I don’t even know how.
But I now have to accept that this is part of life, that there are such valleys in life, that I don’t have to always be constantly productive and producing content just to drive more subscribers, to drive more paid subscribers, to get more views.
I’ve come to see that constantly churning out content, chasing more subscribers, more views, more paid memberships, isn’t very sustainable.
As much as I try to not focus on the numbers, it’s tough when they’re right there, kind staring back at me every day and asking stuff like: “Come on, you reached the goal of x amount per month, so you have to keep going to sustain it and keep growing!”
A part of me knows that such thoughts aren’t the high vibey part of me.
But I still get caught up in them, even though I know they’re not the true measure of my worth or my work’s value.
So, to you out there, if you’re going through something similar, know that this too shall pass.
You don’t have to achieve all your goals today. It’s alright if you don’t feel like doing much at all.
Don’t push yourself to the brink of burnout just because you’re hard on yourself or feel the need to constantly achieve.
We’re human, after all.
We ebb and flow, we rise and fall.
And through it all, we learn, we grow, and we find our way back.
Here’s to a good start to the new year, with a gentle reminder to be kind to ourselves, even when things aren’t going as planned. 🌟
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There is a time for rest and a time for work. And the rest time won’t do what it needs if we are too caught up thinking we should work :)
I feel the self-imposed pressure to achieve my goals and pay attention to my metrics on here — but when I get too caught up in that I try to remind myself ‘why’ I’m doing this writing thing. And it’s certainly not for subscribers — it’s for the joy I get from the act of writing itself. :)
"If you act without energy, seven times out of ten your actions will be a failure." (Bushido)
Rest and regain balance. And don't worry.