At different points in the creative process we might come upon some anxiety related to creativity. In this episode, Amy Climer talks about three common factors which cause anxiety related to creativity and three tips so that you can move through the anxiety and start implementing your creative ideas. What You’ll Learn * Three common factors which cause anxiety related to creativity * Three tips to help manage and ease anxiety related to creativity “There’s a difference between excellence and perfection.” – @AmyClimer Click To Tweet Resources * My dad Ron Climer’s YouTube Challenge * Book: The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield Weekly Challenge Reflect on the ways in which you might be feeding your own anxiety related to creativity and give one of these tips a try. The world needs you and your creative ideas! Transcript Feel like reading instead of listening? Download the free transcript or read it below. Transcript for Episode #080: How to Decrease Anxiety Related to Creativity Amy Climer: Welcome to The Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode 80. Today’s episode is about How to Decrease Anxiety Related to Creativity. I want to share with you all something really cool. As of today, The Deliberate Creative Podcast has had over 57,000 downloads! Wow! You all, I am so excited about that. That is just so cool. Certainly, when I started this podcast, I had no idea what would happen and I did not really think about getting into five figures, much less, 57,000 downloads. But here is the cool thing about that. That tells me that there are a lot of people on this planet who care about creativity. And they know that creativity is important and they want to learn more about how to foster that creativity and innovation within themselves and within their team. The thing with creativity is that it has this incredible ability to impact just about everything that we do. Creativity impacts the bottom line of your organization. Organizations that foster creativity make more money and they are more effective in the work they do. Even if you are a nonprofit where money is not your top concern, although you still have to have a balanced budget and make some money, creativity will help you enhance your mission and meet your mission more fully than it would be if you ignored it. Creativity is all about, really, our ability to solve problems. And so the more creative we can be, the more innovative we can be, the better we will solve problems. We will solve them, perhaps, in different ways, in more unique ways, in ways that you cannot even imagine. That is what creativity is all about. It impacts our happiness and our productivity. It makes a big impact on the work that we do. The cool thing about knowing that a lot of people are listening to this podcast is that a lot of people care about creativity, and that is really what this episode is about today. Today is about decreasing anxiety related to creativity. A big part of that is some of the causes for anxiety is that we care a lot, but also some of the solutions for anxiety is that we care about what we are doing. I will get into that. What is Anxiety? [02:47] First, let me say, what do I mean by anxiety? In this case, I am talking about that nervousness that we feel. It might be that we are blocked because we are too an...