Creative Projects & Non-Attachment
Episode 26
What happens when your passion for a creative project turns into an obsession over the outcome? How can we practice non-attachment to our creative goals while still maintaining our drive and focus?
Luckily, this doesn’t mean giving up all your worldly possessions and moving to a cave off the grid. Despite the image it conjures, practicing non-attachment is a whole lot less New Age-y than you might think!
Today, on Surviving the City, we explore the practical side of non-attachment as it relates to goal setting in your creative projects and how you can benefit from finding fulfillment at every stage of your creative journey, instead of fixating on the outcomes of your creative endeavors.
Join us as we reflect on our own journeys of tying our self-worth to our artistic output, the identity crisis sparked in each of us, and some of the ways that we have learned to separate affirmation from achievement and allow our creative projects to nourish us rather than stress us out.
To learn how you can practice ‘passionate non-attachment’ to give you a better quality of life and a sense of peace as you pursue your creative goals, tune in today!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Why practicing non-attachment is less woo-woo than it seems
- Correlations between attachment, fixation, and social media
- The pitfalls of allowing your creative goals to define you
- How childhood goal-setting influences your creative identity as an adult
- The need to separate your self-worth from your creative output
- Creating a balance between feedback and validation
- How overcommitting can impact your mental and physical health
- The importance of grounding your goals in reality
- What it looks like to be nourished by your creative projects
- Navigating the tension between non-attachment and passion
- Finding fulfillment in each stage of your creative journey
- A visualization technique to help you practice non-attachment
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