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How to Start a Creative Practice

McKenzie Jean
4 min readApr 17, 2024

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Simple Steps to achieve your goals.

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As Elizabeth Gilbert states in Big Magic,

“The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust — and those elements are universally accessible. Which does not mean that creative living is always easy; it merely means that creative living is always possible.”

Do you believe it? That you can step into creative living for yourself? Or do you believe that creativity belongs to those with a special gift, or an eye?

It’s for you to discover that true passion burning within. Whether you’ve seen models, musicians, artists, illustrators, photographers and envisioned your life in their shoes or you have been wanting to start a passion project but just seem to never get around to it. What is holding you back from starting?

As a creative entrepreneur, I often have this problem. Knowing I am capable of many paths, but having decision fatigue, too many options that lead to a personal paralysis. Choosing a path and seeing it through requires self discipline, determination, and grit.

Let’s explore the ingredients that make a successful creative practice, no matter where you’re starting.

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McKenzie Jean
McKenzie Jean

Written by McKenzie Jean

Creative Director, Educator, and Mental Health Advocate writing about creativity and self improvement.

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