🌸 Creative Self-Care: Maximizer vs Satisfier
Reducing Task Goals From "The Best" to "Good Enough"
🌸 Creative Self-Care
The Creative Self-Care series is a section of the Emily Lupita ❤️🔥 Creativity Series that features illustrated activities to promote creativity + wellness, plus provides links to three things I love online this week.
Maximizer vs Satisfier Test
Today’s creative self-care activity is to take the Maximizer vs Satisfier test. This is a helpful tool to understand where we are on the scale of always doing “the best” vs doing what is “good enough” in our life.
Take the test below.
After tallying your score in both columns, consider the following :
Consider the consequences of being a maximizer. What does approaching decisions with a maximizer mindset cost you?
Compared to maximizing, what might you gain from approaching decisions from a satisfier mindset? In other words, what are the pros of making decisions that are “good enough”?
Over the next week, your task is to make one choice every day that is “good enough.”
(*Click on image to enlarge.)
Next, let’s use this black & white blank outline of ourselves above. Grab a few colored pencils, your watercolors, some markers, highlighters…whatever you have within easy reach. Or use your phone / tablet’s “mark up” to digitally color.
Draw yourself inside the outline.
Inside the tall column, draw symbols representing things you do with a maximizer mindset. Then reduce those things and draw them again, but with a satisfier mindset.
Visualize yourself reducing tasks into the satisfier column. Keep this drawing with you to help you get started.
How Was It?
How did this creative self-care activity make you feel? Let me know.
Lupita Artwork
This is the artwork I made from today’s activity:
Lupita loves to grow the most beautiful, most amazing weeping cherry tree in all the land. Every Spring she devotes all of herself to this intensive task and enjoys seeing her tree, the best weeping cherry ever to bloom. But this year, Lupita didn’t feel like doing all that work. She’s tired. She’s got so many other responsibilities. So she grew a small tree this year. And it’s still beautiful. It’s still a magnificent little creation. But it’s not the best one ever. That’s okay. Lupita knows this now. That’s just fine.
What I’m Reading & Watching
This documentary, UNSEEN, looks so powerful. This is the trailer. You can learn more about the project and screenings on their website here.
This video has interviews with caregivers in different circumstances.
Tips from the Mayo Clinic about Caregiver Stress can be found here.
☀️Share your reflections
I’d love to hear your thoughts and reflections on this post.
Good journey,
❤️🔥Emily Lupita
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