17How Grace, Gratitude and Generosity Can Help Us Find the Path Forward

Michele Blackwell

DOI: 10.4324/9781003351344-17

Often, creative projects don’t go as planned. We start in a flurry of creative inspiration but get lost midway. It can be frustrating to find ourselves neck deep in a project we started with enthusiasm and suddenly feel adrift, like a swimmer who dives excitedly into the ocean and comes up for air, only to discover that she is uncomfortably far from shore. Anxiety builds and can be further exacerbated by an approaching deadline.

This chapter offers three tools to shift our mindset when we find ourselves stuck – grace, gratitude and generosity. They can be beneficial in all aspects of our lives but can be especially helpful ...

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