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Natasha Newton's avatar

Thank you, Orla! This is a problem I often struggle with, and reading this was super helpful. :)

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Orla Stevens's avatar

Thank you Natasha! Happy it helped :) I also struggled with this so it's been great to have some questions in place ✨

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Steph Essam's avatar

Great topic because this is me absolutely!

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Orla Stevens's avatar

Thanks! It’s me every time too 🙃

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Paula Cristobal's avatar

Thank you Orla!! For me it was very important to tell myself that I don’t have to do it all in one project or post. That I can divide my ideas across multiple posts. This way I take off the weight to publishing and I get to develop my idea across space.

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Orla Stevens's avatar

That's such a great point! It's so easy to want to do everything in the one project, but it adds waaay too much pressure! Love that idea ✨

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Nell Cummins Illustrates's avatar

Hi Orla! Thanks for this. We often over think which tends to block our creativity! This will be so helpful, so again, thank you.

I'm looking forward to the end of May and seeing your new collection! x

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Orla Stevens's avatar

Thank you Nell! Absolutely, we can be our own blockers sometimes. Thanks so much, looking forward to sharing! ✨

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Dawn Beedell's avatar

Super helpful thankyou for sharing ⭐️

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Orla Stevens's avatar

Thank you Dawn! :)

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Maria's avatar

I haven’t read the post yet, but is there a such a thing as too many ideas?

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Orla Stevens's avatar

In and of themselves, probably not! But knowing which to work on can be hard to navigate. I have definitely felt like I had too many ideas for the time available at points 😅

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Maria's avatar

I'm going to try some of your suggestions. Helpful post thanks!

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Naomi's avatar

This was a really useful post to start the day with. I'm feeling stuck at the moment with making decisions about which projects to spend time on and often spend time doing none of them instead. Doing a bit of journalling with this has set me up well for the day ahead! Thank you.

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Orla Stevens's avatar

that's great to hear Naomi! I totally know what you mean, been there many times too :) happy creating! 😊

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Louise's avatar

This was super useful — for a person like me who always has *another* idea!! Saved to return to later…and subscribed to your YouTube page. I’m such a fan of long form content 😊

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Orla Stevens's avatar

Thanks Louise! aw snap, I've got notebooks full of them! 😊 yessss to long form content, it's the best! 🙌

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