Here's why impatience is hindering your growth:

Patience is frequently overlooked. As an artist impatience can hinder your progress in subtle yet impactful ways. Focusing on taking small, deliberate steps can lead to more growth as an artist over the long term.

Skill Development Takes Time:

Becoming a master in any art is a slow journey. Impatience can lead to frustration when immediate results aren't achieved, neglecting the invaluable learning experiences throughout the process. I've found that by taking things slow I can really focus on the basics. These basic concepts and theories might seem silly but they will help me really expand my reach in the future.

Learning from Mistakes:

Creative endeavours are filled with a lot of trial and error. Impatience inhibits the ability to learn from mistakes. This slow growth mindset helped me to look internally at these mistakes and find better solutions. When we rush into something we can find ourselves taking shortcuts to fix things. But this will likely end in bigger problems down the line.

Establishing Meaningful Connections:

Building a network and collaborations take time. Impatience can hinder the development of meaningful relationships within the creative community. Not everyone will become your friend overnight. This is a hard pill for me to swallow myself. I am very quick to jump into friendships and just have so much love to give. I've realised that scares a lot of people off though. 🫠 Got to just build those things up slowly.

The Creative Process:

Patience allows you to savour the creative process. Impatience tends to focus solely on the end result, overshadowing the joy found in the act of creating. We live in a fast paced world where people want things immediately. It can put a lot of pressure on us as artists to create faster. By speeding through the creative process, we might miss the small joys creativity brings.

Mental Health and Burnout:

Constant impatience can contribute to burnout, jeopardising your mental health. Taking small, deliberate steps promotes a healthier and more sustainable approach to creativity. If we go overboard and plan too many things we can't sustain over a long term period, we will end up in burnout mode. When we reach burnout it's really hard to recover. Our body will physically get us sick to slow us down. It's a human defence mechanism to keep us functioning. But do we really want to be just “functioning”. If we slow things down we can avoid all this sickness and stress.

The art of patience is not a passive waiting game but an active commitment to growth. By embracing small, deliberate steps in your creative journey, you open the door to a world of self-discovery.

Save this for later when you need a little reminder to slow things down. 💟