✨”Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.✨ Julia Cameron ⛰I tell myself this as I struggle to get my first talkie video done, writing the script to put into captions, dealing with unexpected challenges like a zit on my nose,👃🏻 getting makeup in my eye, 👁 having a jittery reaction to the hot (very dark) chocolate I made to comfort myself, coming up to speed on new apps needed to accomplish this and chasing the diminishing hours of natural light that come with these shorter fall-into-winter days...overall feeling stressed to get my next IG post up to maintain the “algorithm”....etc🥴 ⛰Ever have one of those days??? Or several days?! ⛰I remind myself it all means new growth, so worth fighting for, but meanwhile in the midst of it all, it feels over-the-top frustrating. And so, I take a big time-out before I get back to it. And I make more progress, but ultimately decide that “ tomorrow is another day” where I can begin anew. ⛰And so today I make another attempt to surmount the challenges of this new video project. If you see only this caption under this picture, then you’ll know I needed more time to grow. If you see a video under this picture then you’ll know I made it over the mountain. ⛰Both outcomes are progress and I think that’s all that matters right now. ⛰Sometimes we need to gently remove our tightly clenched hand from an expectation we were very attached to and try-as-we-may, just ain’t happening & allow ourselves to let go, “go with the flow” and consider other possibilities 👍🏻 💕Feeling the importance of self love right now💕 🥰Hoping you’ll also remember to be kind to yourself in this moment ✔️ 💋XOXO💋 💋 💋 💋 #progressnotperfection #remember #reminder #wisdom #artempire #personalgrowth #benicetoyourself #artvideo #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram #bekind #artist #artprocess #workinprogress #annhansonart #contemporaryartists #womeninthearts #modernartist #nyartist #lifeofanartist #animalartist #todaysartreport #mycreativelife #artworldwide #livingartist #artaddict #artcollecting #artistportrait #artistslife #womenartists (at Poughkeepsie, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGa9reygxy2/?igshid=1kq9vrxoitttx