The creative process is like tending to a garden — it takes patience, care, and the right mindset!🪴

I love the metaphor that you have in here about the creative process is like growing a garden. Could you talk a little bit about that?

The first step in the creative process is to release judgment. So I need to release the judgment that I am not a good gardener and I cannot grow plants. If you take that idea, I'm someone who can grow sunflowers and I have the seedling of the idea. I have the clear concept. I want to grow sunflowers, right? I've brainstormed this idea. I've got the future vision of what it is. And then imagine I go out into my backyard. And I'm like, throw that out there. Okay, I'm gonna come back in 3 months, see how you're doing. And then you go and leave. That's the messy middle where I now need to tend to my clear concept that I intend to be someone who can grow sunflowers. I need to keep that vision in mind, and then I need to actually design that space, design that life. At the end of the creative process, I gotta release the outcome too. Then the 6th step in the