Flux & Flow Issue #59 You’ve built the perfect system. The folders are organized. The templates are ready. Everything has its place. Then life shifts. Projects change. Energy dips. What once felt effortless now feels forced. You’re not failing the system. The system is failing you. When we commit to a structure of creative work or productivity, especially one that worked for someone else, it’s easy to feel obligated to follow it exactly. When it stops working, we blame our discipline, our...
9 days ago • 3 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #58 Did you hear about the latest productivity app that organizes your thoughts, syncs across all your devices, uses AI to predict your next move, automates your entire workflow, and (according to the marketing) practically does your creative thinking for you? Sounds too good to be true, right? That’s because it is. Yet we keep falling for versions of this promise. A new tool drops. The demos are slick. The testimonials glowing. We think: This is it. This will finally bring...
16 days ago • 3 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #57 The Problem with Chasing Consistency You’ve experienced it before. That burst of inspiration and creative energy that carries you through days of focused work. It’s a type of high that creatives have a particular relationship with. You’re producing. Making progress. Losing all sense of time. Riding the wave. Until you’re not. Then comes the crash. The exhaustion. The guilt about not maintaining that momentum and flow. The problem isn’t your discipline or your commitment....
23 days ago • 3 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #56 Think about your creative workflow right now. How you plan and execute projects. How you manage your time. How you move creative work forward. Every workflow sits somewhere between two extremes of rigid control and total freedom. I have lived on both ends. I have built intricate systems that promised clarity but collapsed under real life. I have followed pure intuition until everything scattered. Neither approach works for long. If you lean toward rigid control, you...
30 days ago • 4 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #55 The Missing Link Between Creative Vision and Actual Progress You’re not short on creative ideas. That’s rarely the problem. The challenge shows up in the space between inspiration and execution. You’ve got clarity on direction and commitment but find yourself unsure where to begin. Or worse, you dive in with enthusiasm, work for hours, and realize you’ve been spinning your wheels without real progress. This pattern is something I see constantly with independent...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #54 You've found your direction. The project is clear, the deadline is set, and every instinct tells you to put your head down and push through. More hours, more intensity, more output. That's how momentum works, right? Not quite. This "grind until you break" mentality is one of the fastest ways to derail the very momentum you're trying to build. What feels like productive urgency often becomes scattered effort, creative fatigue, and eventually, that familiar cycle of...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #53 Every project starts with a spark. But sparks fade. One week you’re lit up with momentum, the next it feels like dragging yourself uphill. That dip doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means you’re human. The question isn’t how do I get the spark back? It’s what carries me forward when it inevitably dips? Relying on inspiration alone isn’t a strategy. It’s a setup for burnout and inconsistency. The solution isn’t to "hustle" more or shame yourself into action. It also isn't to...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #52 From Scattered Ideas to Intentional Progress You know that feeling when inspiration strikes and you dive straight into action, only to find yourself three hours later wondering if you’re actually making progress or just creating more work for yourself? I've been there more often than I would like to admit. When you have exciting ideas and genuine motivation, but the gap between intention and meaningful progress feels frustratingly wide it’s easy to default to arbitrary...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Flux & Flow Issue #51 Imagine a scenario where you’ve finally gained some clarity about your creative direction. You’ve been working on exploring your intentions (commitments to action in a conscious direction) and the process has helped you reconnect with your values and generate an incredible list of meaningful, connected and inspirational paths forward. But as you are staring at your list of possibilities, instead of feeling excitement, you freeze. That struggle to find a clarity of...
2 months ago • 3 min read