I don’t know who needs to hear this but, I just realized something.
Sometimes is better to have quantity over quality.
As someone that calls themselves an artist, I just realized that my art doesn’t have to be perfect, it doesn’t have to follow every single rule out there. It’s okey to break them, and to make them my own. I usually value quality over quantity, because i’m a perfectionist. But, when it comes to drawing, painting, writing… Practice makes perfection.
Today I had to explain in class the following “Focus on progress, not perfection”. I used this image to describe it. Realizing just now, how connected it is to everything I tell other people when they are discouraged.
Progress is not going to be a straight line, you are going to have ups and downs. I personally believe that the more you go down the higher you will go up. Trying to be “perfect” can be an unhealthy way of making progress. Worrying about what you are doing wrong all the time will get in the way of the changes needed in our life for us to grow and learn new things.
In what I like to do I need to be practicing constantly in order to be better. It’s fine if I don’t make it the first three or five times, I will at some point and it’s totally fine to do it at my own pace. Quantity can equal practice/progress. Quality in this case, can be equal to perfection.
Don’t be so hard on yourself for not being exactly like your favorite painter, writer, singer, dancer, etc. YOU ARE NOT MEANT TO BE THEM. Each and every single one of us has its own way of doing things. Celebrate the little achievements you have in life, that will help you to stay motivated.
Don’t put imposible goals, keep them on a reachable standard for you. Don’t compare your progress to anyone else’s, case you only see the a tiny bit of how far they have come. Don’t give up!!! I believe in you ;)
