Happy 2026! I am declaring this the year of "KILL YOUR PERFECTIONISM"
Doesn't matter how. What resolutions you set. Maybe you try to call out the perfectionism when you see it in yourself more often. Maybe you try to make your visions line up with your art style, not someone else's, and set more realistic goals. Maybe you force yourself to post your creations even if you don't think they're good enough yet.
Doesn't matter! The most important part, my dear perfectionist creatives, is that whatever you choose to do:
1) Make it realistic. i.e. Not "i'm gonna write 50 books this year and make a HUNDRED etsy sales and make a FINISHED oil painting EVERY day!!!" Don't do it!! Unrealistic high-on-New-Year's-Inspiration goals are long-term motivation-killers. You know yourself! Set a goal YOU can realistically achieve!
2) DON'T give up on your goal if/when you fall off!! Your goals, like your projects, ALSO don't have to be perfect! If you fall off you're not a failure and it's not the end. I know, I know. It's so easy in theory to say "Well ANY progress is better than none at all 😊✨" and SO much harder in practice to NOT give up once that momentum has been stopped in its tracks. But you can do it. So if you do one of those "one post per day" challenges and miss a day, no, you don't have to feel guilty. No you don't have to throw out the whole challenge and wait til 2027. NO, you don't have to do extra work to "make up for" the days you missed. No, you don't have to kick yourself. You can just make something the next day. Doesn't matter if the cute like "Day out of 365" count has been thrown off, do it anyways.
This year, I'm gonna kill my perfectionism a little more. I'm gonna try and post things I don't think anyone will like or care about because who cares how many notes it gets on tumblr dot com if I enjoyed making it! I'm gonna put stickers on my sketchbook. I'm gonna use the good pencils I've been letting collect dust until I have a "good enough project" for them. 🫴 Join me.
