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What is your dream project?

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I believe that every creative person has at least one huge, ambitious project or idea that they would like to make a reality. Maybe it’s a series of paintings, a novel, a YouTube channel, a rock band, album or composition, a video game or an app. In our case, that thing that we kept coming back to was an animated series.

It’s not just the idea itself that the creative person dreams of. We dream of the impact it could have in our lives. The prospect of finishing a project and getting it noticed is exciting because it would open new doors. We look forward to a day when we may just be able to quit working for “the man” and start producing what we want to produce, all the time.

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How I Used Habits to Jumpstart My Creativity

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Let’s talk about psychology.

For years, I had a ton of ideas for personal projects but had a hard time following through. Starting a new project always followed a similar cycle:

The Vicious Cycle

  1. Get a new idea
  2. Get really pumped on the idea, daydream about it, feverishly turn it around in my head ALL day
  3. Get started on the project
  4. Realize that this is going to actually be pretty difficult and take a lot of time and effort
  5. Become less excited about it
  6. Get a different idea that seems much more exciting

And so, the cycle would repeat. I very rarely got anything out there because of this. If you’re a creative person (and I dare say most people are in their own way) you likely can identify with this vicious cycle to some extent. Art block, writers’ block, fatigue, lack of confidence in our abilities, lack of drive or passion, and good old fashioned excuse-making get in the way of the things we want to bring to the world all the time. In my case, I decided I was tired of that mess.

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