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Every video I make comes with one. They're quiet places to slow down and notice what a video may be touching in you. There's nothing to fix and nothing to finish.
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Twenty-four worksheets, and counting
I'm not creative
The Part That Says I'm Not Creative
Companion to the video Why Do So Many People Believe They’re Not Creative?
For the video about the sentence people say without questioning it, usually learned early from a red pen or one moment that went badly. You'll write down the words that part uses on you, work out what it has been protecting you from, and count one thing a day you solved in a new way.
Hopelessness
Out of the Gray Room
Companion to the video What Do You Do When You Feel Hopeless About Your Art?
For the video about hopelessness arriving slowly, like a room repainted a slightly darker gray each year until your eyes adjust. You'll write down what you've stopped doing or stopped mentioning, take one small step that almost feels silly, and notice what your own hands tell you afterward.
The long stretch
The Corner You Can't See
Companion to the video How Do You Keep Creating When You Can’t See Where It’s Going?
For the video about the long stretch where the finish line stays hidden and most people stop just before a corner they couldn't see around. You'll name where you've stopped before, set a small finish line you can actually see from here, and write a sentence you believe enough to walk with.
Grief
The Life You Pictured
Companion to the video What Happens When Your Creative Dream Doesn’t Come True?
For the video about the creative life you thought you would have and the quiet way it gets written off when it doesn't arrive. You'll describe the picture you once carried, name what you lost when it didn't come true, find the part of your gift that is still with you, and pick one small door to open this week.
The narrow road
Why Is It So Hard to Get Back to Your Art
Companion to the video Why Is It So Hard to Get Back to Your Art?
For the video about the wide road marked Try Harder and the narrow one marked Pay Attention. You'll write down the plans that have started to feel like homework, name what trying harder looked like last time, and pick the smallest version of your art you would actually do tomorrow.
Anxiety
What Your Anxious Thoughts Are Really Paying You
Companion to the video What Did Creating Do for My Anxious Mind?
For the video about anxious thoughts that keep coming back because they pay you something. You'll write one down the way it sounded, name what it was offering, and pick something small to keep within reach so your mind has a different job to take the next time one arrives.
The bully
The Bully of Your Creative Self
Companion to the video The Bully of Your Creativity
For the video about the voice that arrives right before you pick up the camera or open the notebook. You'll write down the exact words it uses on you, name what you have handed over to it, and plan one morning this week when you hold your ground.
Storytelling
Tell the Truth of It
Companion to the video Why Your Story Doesn’t Land (And the 5-Part Framework That Fixes It)
For the video about the story you've decided is too ordinary to be worth the space. You'll name what you wanted and what was in the way, write the unguarded moment from inside it instead of summarizing it, and decide what the person on the other side carries home.
Beginning
Start Here
Companion to the video The Three Things That Keep Creatives From Starting
For the video about the thing you put down and keep meaning to pick back up. You'll name it, write how long it's been, catch the exact words the waiting uses, then make one mark today in the conditions you actually have.
Hard seasons
Create Anyway
Companion to the video Create Anyway
For the video about making things while you are in a hard season. You'll put what the feeling says beside what you know to be true, describe who you want to be when this ends, and make one small thing today.
Regret
Give It a Form
Companion to the video What Regret Does to Creativity (And How to Take It Back)
For the video about regret. You'll separate what actually happened from what regret says it means about what comes next, then take the one that sits closest to a version of yourself you never let out and put it into some form on the page.
Honesty
The Full Version
Companion to the video You Already Know Why
For the video about the sentence you keep softening. You'll write the soft version you've been telling people for years, cross out the words doing the softening, then put the full version on one line.
Courage
What You Gain When You Dare to Create
Companion to the video When You Can't Say It, Create It
A worksheet for making something raw and honest, with no polish required.
Praise
Disqualifying the Positive
Companion to the video The Lie That Keeps Artists Small
On brushing off praise, with mindset rewrites and a seven-day challenge to practice taking it in.
Overthinking
Think Less, Make More
Companion to the video Think Less. Make More.
A companion to the video on how the noise in your head stalls the work before it starts.
Curiosity
Wander Into Wonder
Companion to the video Wander Into Wonder
A curiosity worksheet for the video on how curiosity moves the creative process along.
Discipline
The Creator's Path Journal
Companion to the video Bokeh Bushido Creator Guide
The Bokeh Bushido Creator Code as a working journal for reflection, goals, and craft.
Purpose
Your Why Journal
Companion to the video Discovering Your Deep-Seated Why
Questions that trace your creative drive back through your history, so the work has something solid under it.
Stillness
My Name Is Stillness
Companion to the video What Your Art Is Missing
Three sections on the pause your work has been asking for, and on what pulled you away from it.
Burnout
The C.R.E.A.T.E.R. Scale
Companion to the video Return to Center
A seven-stage map from creative flow to burnout, with a weekly check-in so you catch the drift early.
Self-criticism
Healing the Inner Critic
Companion to the video Creativity Isn't a Courtroom
Traces where your harshest voice came from, and how to answer it with something other than punishment.
Attention
The Gratitude Guard
Companion to the video How Artists Stay Present
A weekly inventory that keeps your attention on what's actually here, so fear has less room to work.
Regret
The Creative Return
Companion to the video Create Through Regret
Eight sections on coming back to your creative life after a long time away, and on telling regret apart from shame.
Healing
Creativity as a place to heal
Companion to the video Creative Healing
For the video about Emily, who found that making things gave her healing somewhere to take root while she did the harder work in therapy.