Creativity Check-In: 🌟 "Maximizer VS. Satisfier"
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Hello! I’m Emily Lupita. I’m a Latina travel writer & artist from rural Iowa living in Ankara, the capital of Turkiye.
Creativity Check-Ins are where we come together to share how our creative projects are going, what we’re working on, and stories from our daily lives as creative people. I’ll also share an activity for some self-care & to get our creative energy flowing.
This is a feature on - Emily Lupita Explores - a creativity journal where I share explorations from my writing desk & art projects, plus illustrated stories of travel adventures with my two Autistic sons.
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🌟 Activity for Self-Care
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” versus doing what is “good enough” in our lives.
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.”
Next, let’s use this black & white blank outline of ourselves below. 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.
🎨 It can go in any direction you like. For example, here’s a finished painting of my mom I made from the sketches of this activity. 🌸
🌟 How was the activity? Share your thoughts in the comments. 🌟
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