Hey, friends, welcome to the Ruth Joe Simon's podcast. Today I want to talk about a question that's

been on my mind for quite some time because it's something

I wrestle through over and over again, season after season. It's kind of a perennial question

for me is, how do I sustainably keep a rhythm for creativity? So today I want to talk about what rhythms really help us

stay creative. You don't have to be an artist. I happen to be a writer and a painter, but you

don't have to be an artist or a musician or creative in some of those very specific ways know, specific ways, maybe you are trying to launch a

business. Maybe you are trying to stay really engaged in your motherhood journey rather than

checking out in your day to day. You know, in every endeavor, you can kind of point to an area in which

you have to stay creative or think on your feet or be a little bit more fruitful in ideas.

And sometimes it just feels like, how do I, how do I stay in, in the creative zone?

How do I actually keep bringing forth new ideas?

I want to specifically talk about this from the perspective of being a producing artist.

I am an artist, an author.

I am in output mode really regularly. If you happen to be listening or watching

today and you are a professional artist or a creative or a content creator or a musician,

I can think of so many other areas in life where you might be asked to have creative output regularly.

You're going to resonate with this, I think.

Because this was on my mind because last fall, I was in a season where the output was very, very demanding. It was super demanding

because I had deadlines. So as a creative, you know, 13 years ago, I started Gracely shop

my art brand, my dot com direct to consumer brand as an e-commerce store. It had been a

blog before that. And that was born out of, I think you guys have heard the story. I had $300

saved away. And I thought, well, this is the time. I feels like the right time to go take some of my paintings, go learn how to scan them. And I thought, well, this is the time. I feel like it's the right time to go take some of my paintings, go learn how to scan them, and make prints and offer them to the world. Wasn't expecting for the artwork to go around the world or to turn into a much bigger brand than a little, you know, shop at my kitchen

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