One of the questions I'm asked the most as an artist and writer is how do you stay inspired?

I can honestly tell you I stay inspired by listening.

Listening to other creatives and storytellers really does help fuel the work I do.

And one of the places where I've been listening is the podcast Adobe Wireframe, who happens to be the sponsor of today's show.

Adobe Wireframe is now in

season four, hear from artists, designers, activists, and more. I'm a listener of this podcast,

and if you'd like to check it out yourself, the link is in the show notes. And now on to today's

episode, where we are going to be talking about five simple phrases for when you feel

like your work isn't good enough. I'm Morgan Harper Nichols. Thank you for listening. There are so many

reasons as to why we might feel like our work isn't good enough. Perhaps we work in an

environment where we feel that others are more qualified than we are. Or maybe we didn't receive

encouragement growing up from other adults or our peers that what we were creating was good and

that our contributions were valuable or for many of us we've experienced some kind of setback

or failure or this moment where we suddenly realized that the things that we set out to do are going to take a little bit longer to come to life than we imagined.

There are so many reasons why we may have that feeling that maybe my work isn't good enough.

Maybe even at my best, I'm just not qualified or interesting or worth listening

to. Those thoughts can creep in so easily. So here are five simple phrases that I hope you can

hold onto when those feelings start to creep in. And I will put them in the show notes so you can

return to them whenever you like. Fphrase number one, I am not my work. I am not my work.

This is such a simple phrase, but it's something that can be easily forgotten when we live in a society where we work.

And we have to put a lot of time and energy into creating things, into contributing, into just making it through the average day.

So it's important that we continue to remind ourselves and the people around

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