Dealing with Overwhelm & Making Time for What Matters [56]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel overwhelmed? Do you find that your painting time is being eaten up by admin and emails and marketing and social media ... not to mention spouses and kids and parents and pets? Even when we love what we do, it can be stressful to cope with competing demands on our time. This week Alice is fiercely protecting her painting time despite pressure to do other things, while Louise is facing up to her tendency to put others' needs ahead of her own. We discuss our strategies for managing overwhelm, offer tips for prioritising what matters, and debate whether it has ever been possible for an artist to simply make their art on a full time basis. We also discuss the value of good framing and Alice shares her experience of receiving a very special letter.
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Juiced Up Buddies group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/juicedupbuddies/
RWS Contemporary 2020: https://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/exhibitions/36-rws-contemporary-watercolour-competition/overview/
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| 0:00.0 | it wasn't like this. I mean I remember a time where I would almost kind of hover over my email in |
| 0:05.2 | box so that an email came in and I could feel busy by deleting it, you know. Hi and welcome to episode 56 of art juice this is honest generous and humorous |
| 0:21.5 | conversations to bead your creative soul and get you thinking with |
| 0:25.5 | me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan. |
| 0:29.6 | And this was my second go at starting this podcast and that kind of ties in with our main topic today which is feeling |
| 0:37.2 | overwhelmed and tired and with not enough time to do maybe what we want to do. |
| 0:44.6 | We're not even sure what the title of it is yet. |
| 0:46.7 | We'll come up with the title and we get to the end of the conversation. |
| 0:50.0 | But I think we're both in a similar state this week but before we get into that |
| 0:55.3 | main topic and maybe what we're working on this week actually will just flow |
| 0:58.9 | naturally into our main topic what are you working on this week, Alice? |
| 1:04.0 | Well, I have been... |
| 1:07.0 | I was looking at this and I was thinking, |
| 1:09.0 | I've either got nothing to say or you can have a great long list. What want. It's a bit like that for me. It's a bit crazy isn't it and every week I do. I do this weekly check-in with with my coach and we're supposed to pick like three things to do each |
| 1:24.2 | week and on Monday I sat down and I saw my list and I kind of thought well I did one |
| 1:29.2 | and I didn't do two and three but I did do this and this and this and this and this and this which I hadn't even written down for myself and you know that sometimes how it works anyway what I want to tell you guys about this week is shipping a painting to the States because this used to put absolute dread in my heart. I can't tell you when I shipped off a painting I would have sleepless nights until it arrived. |
| 1:58.0 | Like the anxiety of even choosing a shipper was just too much how to choose how to wrap this thing would it ever |
| 2:06.6 | arrive at visions of it sending to me what do you do with insurance by the way |
| 2:11.2 | unless you have real specialist shipping insurance, artwork is not covered anyway, so don't pay for that thing. |
| 2:17.0 | You kind of have got to just send it and know that if there is damage to it, you will either refund it and that's the end of your baby painting. |
| 2:25.2 | I mean it is heartbreaking. The alternative is you pay for a real specialist shipper who will ship it, |
| 2:30.8 | wrap it and then they will cover it against damage. |
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