Rushing the process will only push you further from the goal.
About moving with intention instead of urgency.
My morning started slow today, a nice cup of coffee by my side, The Olympians in my (wired) headphones, and all I can think about as I'm sipping is what are we actually rushing for?
No matter what it is in life, when rushed, it will produce a lesser version of what it could've been. And we haven't even talked about the enjoyment of the process that we sacrifice when we're sprinting toward the next checkpoint. Whatever that checkpoint is worth.
For a musician, rushing the process looks like not mixing the album the way they actually wanted. Worse, leaving tracks unfinished because they convinced themselves it wasn't worth the time; which is really just an excuse to jump to the next project. Rushing between things, missing all the good stuff in between.
For a designer, it might look like taking on 18 collections a year, stacking the workload, and slowly watching the quality erode just to satisfy a quota. Honestly, a disservice to the work and to the body of work being built.
For most creatives though, it shows up through social media.
“I need to get more followers asap”
“damn, the post didn’t get the amount of likes that I wanted”
“Why isn't anyone sharing my stuff?”
And many more.
Where thruthfully, if you're making work for yourself first, those questions should never find you. And it's worth being clear about something here real quick (no rushing): there's a difference between asking those questions from a place of genuine growth curiosity, and asking them from a place of anxiety. The first is healthy/The second means you've already lost the fun part of creating; and if we're not creating for fun and fulfilment, what are we actually doing here?
There is beauty in “creative stillness”, not sure if that term exists yet - if it doesn't, welcome, For sure will be using it a lot.
Sometimes it's important to step outside for a second. Look at the landscape. Understand what's actually going on and where you're trying to go. Once you've conceptualised the idea, you can protect the fun of it, becuase once there's a plan, there's no need to rush!
You move with intention instead of urgency.
J-Huss said it best: "If you stay prepared you ain't gotta get prepared." Prepare for your work; weekly, quarterly, yearly, by platform, by project, by any means necessary. Suddenly there's no urge to rush. It's all calculated, witha spark of spontaneity to let it breathe.
Now, the project starts moving like a flow state plus both Internal and external validation follow naturally, and now it's fun again to create.
THERE IS NO NEED TO RUSH WHEN IT COMES TO CREATING.
This whole thought started from a slow morning, which changed once I opened my Instagram - 200 headlines in less than 2 minutes of scrolling, that contrast between the slow and the fast was impossible to ignore.
So maybe the real cheat code isn’t a strategy or a schedule, it’s just deciding to actually finish the song before skipping.
It’s rarely the pace. It’s what’s driving it. Urgency has a way of disguising itself as importance.
I needed this