{"id":9681,"date":"2011-09-13T18:45:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T02:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=9681"},"modified":"2024-03-22T09:29:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T09:29:49","slug":"creative-inertia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/creative-inertia\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep Your Creative Inertia Going"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creative Inertia<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>the tendency of a creator at work to stay at work unless allowing an outside force to act upon them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you notice that when you decide to do something and you really have the self-discipline to do it regularly, you gain esteem from it? Same goes with the things you decide NOT to do. An example of ‘Not to do’: I got 3 friends who decided to quit smoking. Two of them quit cold turkey while the other one wanted to do it gradually. The result? The two guys kicked the habit and the one who did it his own pace is still a smoker. I wonder why the ones who quit cold turkey are more successful. Then I read somewhere that it must be because they gain esteem from having self-discipline. They gain self-respect because they quit the habit \u201cjust like that\u201d and they want the praises they get and they want to maintain that kind of feeling- that success. It\u2019s as if they\u2019re wearing a badge and they want to keep wearing it so they would keep their record.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been into painting but I do not do it much often- just every once in a while whenever I feel like it. I was also a bit intimidated and scared that I would fail at something that I love to do. And then one day I saw this 30-day challenge vide by Mike Cutts.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n