Last night I posted this to Instagram because I’m making some changes in my format there.
It explains some of my thought process right now, though, so it seems like a good idea to share it here as well.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve doodled several variations of this index card — my little monster robot that reads INDECISION, KILLER OF WORLDS — trying to decide what to do with my Instagram.
Well, my Instagram and several other areas of my life, particularly professionally.
I’m the kind of woman who tends throw herself head first into a creative project, then eventually I move on to focus on something else for awhile.
I never abandon anything completely… I tend to cycle from one creative project to the next and back again, often by season. But I lose interest in doing a lot of one thing for awhile and move on until I get excited about it again.
Something interesting has happened since I switched my Instagram “brand” to be entirely linocut, though…
I’ve stopped doing anything else.
And because it feels like too much of a departure, when I’m not really feeling the block printing process — and it is a process, a messy one! — I end up not doing ANYTHING because I start feeling bad about not doing the thing I’m “supposed” to be doing.
Oh, did I mention I’m a marketing consultant and I help businesses brand themselves and build sales funnels for a living?
So even though I spend my days building authentic brands for my clients, I find myself NOT being authentic here because I’m never quite sure what to do with this account… an account that started entirely personal and has now become a sea of block printed baby clothes.
So here we are.
I made a decision last week that I am going to start showing my work — both creatively and professionally — as a way to build a more conscious, flexible, authentic online presence.
That means some changes are going to be happening on my grid. I’m going to allow myself to post things that aren’t linocut… though I promise, this isn’t the end of the adorable baby clothes.
But I’m going to try to share more organically about my creative process, my work, what I’m reading, listening to and doing on this feed.
It’s cool if you aren’t here for this… feel free to unfollow my lame, oversharing butt. But I look forward to connecting with all of you in a new, awesome way. ?
