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Overcoming Creative Inertia in a Pandemic

Have you seen the posts about Issac Newton developing calculus in quarantine and Shakespeare writing King Lear? Or maybe you've seen this one: If you don’t come out of this quarantine with either:  1.) a new skill  2.) starting what you’ve been putting off like a new business  3.) more knowledge  You didn’t ever lack the time, you lacked the discipline. Did either of them actually fire up your motivation? If they did, that's awesome, and I'm sincerely happy for you.  For the rest of us who spent each day wondering what happened to our creativity, our motivation, our passion for the projects we were working on, I'd like to share the following posts by @alexisrockley,  a psychology-certified coach on Twitter: I don't personally know her, but her message was exactly what I needed to hear to take that first step to overcoming this unwelcome inertia. I'm sharing it in hopes that it may help you, as well. As I'm sure is true ...