The arc where you discover what living the creative life truly means to you.
This is the chapter you turn to when you feel creatively blocked, you’re struggling to fully embrace your creative identity, or you simply want a little encouragement to stay connected to your creativity. This is where we keep going, and integrate creativity into our everyday lives in the way that feels most authentic.
A creative practice looks different for everyone, but on the blog, it is essentially a commitment to the craft (any craft). It’s the arena in which we learn to create through fear and doubt, quiet perfectionism, learn about our own creative processes, and watch as our creative voices evolve.
In our story of creative reclamation, cultivating a creative practice is a goal, not a final destination. It’s just the leg of the journey that we most want to be in — the one that is most expansive, where dreams grow into realities. (Or simply the one where we become pretty good at our favourite hobby.)
As part of the process, you’ll certainly revisit the other chapters, but with just a little more creative resolve.
- You’ll still need to reclaim your energy from the external demands of work and life from time to time.
- You’ll still want to reconnect with yourself to see what else is there that wants to be expressed.
- You’ll still have to make space to create as your creativity (and your life) evolve.
The important part is that you continue to show up for yourself, and these posts are meant to support you in doing that by exploring common points of friction when it comes to staying connected to our creativity.
If you’ve started a creative hobby but are finding it hard to stay with it, you’re in good company.
I created a short 5-part series for this part of the journey — the one where we learn to keep going, even when the novelty fades.
🌱 On pushing past perfectionism
“Learn by Doing” Works Best in the Absence of Perfectionism
Letting go of perfectionism is the key to learning faster — even if it seems counterintuitive. Here’s how.
Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist: Navigating the Perfectionism Trap
If you’re a multi-passionate creative, perfectionism can hit a bit different — it can create guilt over lack of progress as you move between mediums and make you question what the point of it all is.
Literally Running Away From the Perfectionism Problem
An honest look at this writer’s struggles with perfectionism through the lens of becoming a runner. A fun (but long) post originally written shortly after the blog launched.
Lessons in Watercolour: Embracing the Chaos and Letting Go
A personal reflection on releasing control through the lens of watercolour painting.
🔥 On creating through fear and doubt
Listen To Your Authentic Voice: Four Questions For Creative Clarity
When you can’t discern fear from your authentic voice, this post is meant to help you regain clarity and direction.
The Peaceful Warrior: How To Slow Dance With Fear
A post about feeling the fear, and creating anyway.
Three Business Valuation Quotes Helping Me Tackle the Blank Page
One of a few accounting-creativity crossover posts to help ease one of our greatest fears: the blank page.
Time to Start A New Venture? Don’t Let Fear Get The Majority Vote On Your Creative Journey
I am just now realizing that most of my accounting-creativity crossover posts have to do with fear. Anyway, this one is a playful take on how fear, logic, and the inner creative negotiate in the boardroom of our minds.
💍 On staying committed to the craft
Eight Tips to Help You Stick With a New Hobby (Once the Novelty Fades)
A practical approach to sticking with a new creative hobby. This is a great place to start when you’re just starting to explore the idea of a creative process (or if you’re feeling creatively blocked and looking for ideas on how to get back into it).
How to Create a Meaningful Personal Project From Your Hobby
Found your hobby, but want to build it out into a full-on project? Here are some tips!
Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist: How To Embrace the Multi-Passionate Chaos
For when you have too many hobbies or interests and you can’t pick just one.
Adventures in Writing: Love the Process, They Say
Love the process, they say — but what do they mean, and why do they say it? Explore what loving the process looks like with a couple reflections from my own creative life.
✨ On the journey together
This section contains four series from the blog, which house the creative practice in action.
The Busy Creative’s Guide to Bullet Journaling (Start Here!)
This is a series I started on bullet journaling. Bullet journaling itself is a fantastic creative practice, or a wonderful productive companion to your own practice.
Adventures in Writing Archives
This is where I write about my struggle to become a better writer.
Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist Archives
A place for me to muse on my various other creative pursuits, and how to keep up with them all.
These are looser, journal-style blog posts from the mundane living of life through the lens of Debit This, Create That, where I write from the messy middle of the creative practice.
Ready to step into the creative life?
For me, the creative life is simply one in which I prioritize my creativity and honour that inner voice. I recognize the role of creative self-expression in my health and wellbeing. I can see how creativity affects all other facets of my life. It’s an energizing, harmonizing source of meaning.
It’s also just a great way to de-stress.
I can’t wait to see how your creative practice unfolds! May it take you to wonderful places.
What’s next?
Browse more from this chapter here: The Creative Practice Archives
If you’d like a little monthly reminder and encouragement to stay connected to your creativity, I write a letter that does just that. Feel free to check it out, and stay connected!
You might also like to visit another chapter in the creative reclamation story arc:
Reclaim Your Energy – to feel grounded, rested, and human again.
Reconnect with Yourself – to find clarity, direction, and alignment.
Make Space to Create – to welcome creativity into your daily life.
