Get Out of Your Way

Reinvention is tough. Disrupting old patterns of beliefs or behaviors is tough. Even when we finally decide to disrupt the flow of familiarity, the fear of the unknown that awaits us can be paralyzing. I know that it has been for me. But one of the things that my therapist routinely encourages me to do is to sit with discomfort — to force myself to pause and breathe and stave off the instinct to move into “fight or flight” mode. In sitting with the discomfort or the pain or fear, we reduce its power and we might be more able to move through it to whatever is waiting on the other side. For me, I think that’s the possibility of making more work that I find interesting, finding an audience that will value it, and becoming more connected with a broader community of artists and makers. LINKS Better Than Ezra Kevin Griffin From Better Than Ezra Advice On Songwriting Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TED Kevin Griffin (Wikipedia) The Greatest Song by Kevin Griffin CONNECT WITH ME Website: https://jefferysaddoris.com  Instagram: @jefferysaddoris Email: talkback@jefferysaddoris.com SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to Almost Everything with Jeffery Saddoris in your favorite podcast app. You can also subscribe to my newsletter on Substack.