"Look at them. They’re moving faster. They’re better. I’m still stuck, still trying to catch up."
Pause for a moment.
Somewhere along the way, we got confused.
Deeply confused.
We started mistaking activity for achievement.
Creativity isn’t a conveyor belt. Consistent.
Creativity is a garden. And gardens need seasons.
Some winters. Some springs.
We started mistaking speed for value.
Even though real art (regardless of what you’re creating) takes time.
Not just in hours…but presence, intention, and soul.
And we started mistaking applause for worth.
Likes, follows, and sales are nice.
But they’re not your compass.
Activity. Speed. Applause.
It’s time for you to adopt a new measuring stick…
Don’t aim to be better than the person beside you.
Aim to be braver than you were yesterday.
Start focusing on input over output.
Did you show up today? Did you wrestle with the tools? Did you learn, stretch, attempt?
That’s growth.
Start pacing yourself.
If it takes you a month to write one honest page for your book, that’s worth more than ten empty chapters.
Don’t speed up. Go deep.
Start treating small wins with respect.
Celebrate that lyric you finally got right. That sketch you didn’t throw away this time. That recipe you nailed.
Celebrate them all. Momentum lives there.
Start treating the process as the product.
Your art isn’t just what you make.
It’s who you become while making it.
And at the end of the day never forget your fire.
Why you started.
That vision that kept you up in the middle of the night with thoughts screaming “This matters”…
Anchor yourself to that.
Because you are enough.
Not tomorrow.
Not after your next post goes viral.
Not when your skills “catch up.”
Now.
And no, that doesn’t mean you stop evolving. It means you stop self-sabotaging under the illusion that you’re broken.
You are not broken.
You are becoming.
You can keep chasing “enough” like a dog chasing its tail….
Or you can sit still long enough to realize…
It’s already here.
You’re more than enough.
Stay creative,
