Dear Creativity,
What does progress even look like?
Two years into running my business, I’ll admit that I feel frustrated. Idea after idea. Tiny experiment after tiny experiment. Workshops, memberships, presentations, and networking calls. You always tell me to keep at it, but persistence doesn’t always soothe the ache.
When you have a dream, the choices are constant:
Do you give up?
Do you keep going?
Do you pivot?
There’s no one “right” answer when you’re on a solo journey. Some days feel lonely, heavy with despair. Other days, the chaos itself feels alive and electric.
Over time, I am starting to learn that we don’t thrive in isolation. We bloom in community. We flourish when ideas collide, when collaboration sparks, when someone else holds us accountable and cheers us on.
So why do we keep trying to do it alone? Maybe it’s our modern conditioning, the myth that independence equals strength. But I don’t believe that anymore.
Creativity, what I want more than anything, is to build thriving communities of women who are working on their ideas together. To help them make progress and keep their connection to you alive along the way.
That’s what gets me through the disappointments like the flat sales, the email that no one replies to, and the risks that don’t land. I can’t control any of that. What I can control is how I show up, again and again, in the uncertainty. Because it’s in uncertainty that ideas bloom beyond what we could imagine if we’re willing to share them.
Image Credit: San Jose State University
Our culture wants to isolate us. But I believe this:
People who play together, thrive together.
So now I’m wondering, Creativity… what might change if we stopped trying to go it alone and let ourselves be held by community?
Innovatively yours,
Dr. Abigail
