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Actionable Essays to Help Creative Professionals
Build Balance in their Busy Lives
Written by a Nerdy Architect
with 15 Years of Experience Balancing His Own
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Lights, Camera, Action! Why Seeing Your Life as a Movie Can Help You Overcome Personal Challenges
Life is a struggle. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun at the same time. When working through a challenge, think of your life like a movie. There are clear benefits to imagining you’re the hero of your own story. Let’s break down how.
How to Boost Creative Focus and Fun with This Simple Time-Management Hack
Distractions are everywhere and they’re only getting worse. By using a simple time management method called the “Pomodoro Technique,” you can get back control of your time and have fun doing it.
Work-Life Satisfaction: Why It Should Matter More to You Than Balance
Work-Life Balance has misled you. Our lives are too complex and ever-changing to be contained by balance. Instead, let’s consider the benefits of building a life around a more nuanced and fulfilling framework — Satisfaction.
No One is Doing it All: How to Let Go of Creative Life Comparisons
The perfect life doesn’t exist. But the world does everything it can to make us think it does (and everyone but you is living it). Let’s talk about Comparison Anxiety and how we can break free from it.
Creative Life Anxiety: How to Find Freedom from Overthinking
So many choices, so little time. This is how we break the anxiety spiral of overthinking and bring balance back to our creative life.
Creative Mismatch: The Root Cause of Workplace Burnout and How to Address It
As busy creatives, we often place the blame of burnout on ourselves or our work. But there is a hidden reason you may be burning out at work. Burnout is a relationship mismatch. Let’s discuss.