Tag: managing creative energy

They say professional athletes train an average of 20 hours a week, not in sporadic bursts, but with carefully structured routines that balance effort, rest, and recovery. Artists are no different. Creativity is a muscle, and without consistent exercise, it weakens, grows rusty, or fizzles out at exactly the moments you need it most. Most artists drift between frantic studio marathons and long stretches of inactivity, leaving ideas unfinished and momentum lost. Building an art routine you can actually sustain is less about forcing productivity and more about creating conditions where…

Burnout doesn’t always happen because you’re overloaded with work. More often, it builds quietly when you don’t have a system to hold your creative flow together. You jump from project to project, say yes to new ideas, and keep pushing through late nights because that’s what creative drive looks like, right? But over time, the energy that once felt limitless starts to fade. What used to be exciting now feels like another box to check. That’s when you realize it’s not the work that’s the problem, it’s the lack of structure…