Life has a way of making a mockery of your best intentions. We set out to do a Pain in the Arts health check and discovered that neither of us has touched a watercolour in weeks, but perhaps Brea has found a new obsession?
We talk about where we're actually at with our creative projects, why the minor side quests have quietly stepped into the breach, and what happens when the chaos of school holidays, support worker changes, and a new assistance dog lands on top of everything else.
We also get into calm marketing — whether we've actually been doing it, or just fooling ourselves — and what Lyndon found when he finally sat down to look at all the data.
And we end up somewhere we didn't expect: on the importance of being kinder to yourself about how much you're actually doing, even when progress feels invisible.
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