Inspiration Archives - My Creative Workout

Traveling Outside My Comfort Zone

After working from home for two years, my comfort zone turned into a restrictive bubble without me realizing that it was happening. A vacation trip to England is what it took to finally wake me up to the fact that staying secluded in my office day after day was having an insidious impact on my mental health.

I work remotely in an office space in our garage that’s separated from our house. This allows me to be in solitude for large blocks of time. Being an introvert, this has been a form of heaven for me. But after two years of working from home, my world had shrunk down to a radius of only a few miles. Days were going by without me ever leaving the driveway.

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Suddenly Laid Off and Trying to Stay Creative

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I was recently laid off from my job at a company I worked at for over twenty years as a result of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company let almost fifty percent of the workforce go as part of this layoff. Similar layoffs have been happening everywhere. I truly sympathize with anyone who has suddenly found themselves without a job as a result of this pandemic. I can honestly say that it left me reeling.

Lessons Learned from 100 Days of Drawing

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I always longed to be the type of person that carried a sketchbook and made time to draw in it every day. But even after rediscovering the joy of drawing some years ago, I’ve failed time and time again in my attempts to make this a consistent creative habit… never mind reaching 100 days of drawing in a row. So often I would get inspired to draw and begin carrying my sketchbook with me for a few days in a row, or even a week. But life would always seem to get in the way and my sketchbook would soon go back to sitting on the desk… again. [Read more…]