Being a multi passionate woman is incredible because you get to do so many different things. Nothing is ever off the table when you let your creativity explore. Some days it can be overwhelming or frustrating when you don’t make any progress.
Maybe you are currently sitting down ready to reinvent your entire life again because THIS time you will pick one thing and that will be your life from here on out. Right?
Nope, in a couple weeks you will be back to where you are now because you cannot plan or think or trick yourself into having one passion or project.
Imagine a life where you get to wake up and work on a variety of different projects without worrying about the “right” way to spend your time.
10 Tips to Balance your Multiple Passions Before You Go Insane:
- Acceptance
- Energy Levels
- Time Audit
- Personal Brand
- Slow progress is okay
- Be in the moment
- Trust yourself
- Creativity Dates
- Celebrate
- Change is good
Acceptance
The first step is to start accepting your multi passionate nature. You are NOT going to pick one career. You are not going to pick one hobby. There will always be something new and exciting waiting for you to explore. Accept this part of you. Once you start allowing your creativity to appear without your frustrations you will be able to interact with more on a curiosity level than a “I don’t have time for this” level.
Accepting the nature of being multi passionate will be different for everyone. You could focus on a project for months and then set it down for a while to move onto something else. I completed a 75 Medium challenge to show myself that I can build trust with myself. I have the ability to set habits and stick to them for a designated period of time. I did it.
My multi passionate story had always been “I won’t stick to that long enough to see any results” and “a new idea will distract me before I get anywhere with this” and I let those thoughts dictate where I spent my time.
Accepting that I will always have something new to explore has been freeing. It can be a hard at times accepting this when we live in a very structured world. The expectation is to pick a career path and stick with it for years. But this is not the case for a lot of us. This is your sign to open your arms to a creative life. A life that flows through different paths without you trying to control the current.
Energy Levels
Listen to your body and stop forcing your creativity to act like a 9-5 where you can clock in and out and get money in return. You already know when you have the most energy. Is it in the morning, mid day or in the evening. Use this information to further your multiple passions. If you hate mornings but you are forcing yourself to write at 5am because that is what you think will get you to your goal. It might but you are going to hate the process. In fact, I would bet my left pinky toe that you can only manage to wake up at 5am, force yourself to write for only a few days in a row, maybe a week before you call it quits.
This means to schedule in time to work on your creative based on your energy levels and then push yourself outside your comfort zone once you build that trust with yourself. You are not going to want to work on all your projects at all times and that is okay. You also might have prior engagements that take away from your creativity (school/work/life) and you tell yourself there is simply NO time to work on your projects in accordance to your energy levels.
If that is the case then you will have to build self discipline around your current schedule until you have the freedom to go with the flow.
Time Audit
There are only so many hours in a day and it can be hard to schedule it all in. Have you ever felt the need to avoid making plans to work on creative projects because you do not want to feel too busy? Maybe the dream of starting a business is so exciting but then you freak out about your future schedule because what if there is no time to work on random creative projects that come up in the future? Yikes. I have this spiral of thoughts at least every couple of months.
For some reason I have the need to feel rushed but also procrastinate everything I do. How can you combat this feeling?
Time audit yourself every month. Get into the habit of doing a time audit to see where all your hours are going. Would it be nice to get lost in shifter romance for six hours – yup! Sign me up. But in reality you could enjoy those beast for four hours and have two hours to work on your creative projects. If you use reading as an escape from reality and to avoid moving your life forward – read this.
What is a time audit?
Grab a pen, paper or your notes app and think back to yesterday, the day before and document your day. When did you wake up? How much time did you have in the morning before work/school? How did you spend your lunch break? How did you spend your evening?
Once you become aware of how you spend your time it will be easier to carve out pockets of time for your multiple passions. And doing an audit every month will allow you to catch yourself from avoiding the projects you truly want to work on.
Personal Brand
This one is for my content creators, business owners, entrepreneurs who have five different instagram handles trying to build the perfect business. You can pivot to building a personal brand where your social media revolves around YOU. Your day to day life is your multiple brands and businesses. Of course if you have a specific e-commerce business like selling candles, that will need to be it’s own socials but you can have a regular account where you document your daily life and how it connects to your lifestyle no matter the aesthetic, topic and business.
This TikTok video showed me that there are thousands of us creative women who have a creative spark, plan out the business, start a social media account and then let it fizzle out. You cannot manage seven different accounts at a time on your own and feel sane at the same time. Believe I’ve tried and my sanity has been lost long ago. Just kidding. I think.
To start a personal brand as a multi passionate creative you want to pick your hub, home base, main platform that will be a little bit of everything. This is the place you get to be completely multi-passionate. For me that is this blog and TikTok. YouTube and Instagram use the same topics but it is positioned in a different way because I have established the goal of my personal brand. One, to fuel my creative side and get my words out there even if just a single person reads it. And two, to connect with other creative women and help them feel empowered to make the choice to pursue their art. Once you have the big goal of your personal brand which can revolve around a feeling, a community and outlet. Or all three. It will be easier to show up on one platform as the multi passionate version of you instead of trying to compartmentalize every single hobby, idea or project.
Slow progress is okay
The bane of every multi passionate creatives existence is time. In fact why is it taking me this long to write this blog post. I want to get onto the next one. Honestly, this is the lesson I have learned the most from over the last year and even more so the last six months. Time is going to pass. I have the choice to make slow daily progress or stay exactly where I am, frustrated that I am not making leaps and bounds towards my creative life. When you start to trust yourself to show up for your creativity the progress becomes a friendly companion that you are taking a leisurely stroll with. Of course are there times where you want to sprint head long down a side trail to get to a self imposed finish line (spoiler there will be no checkered flag or audience to clap because that finish line doesn’t really exist).
I also used this mindset of slow progress is okay to finished the first draft in my debut novel. I made a promise to myself to show up every day to write 200 words minimum. And I did it. Some days was 201 and others 3000. But I sat down and opened up my manuscript every day for about 100 days and made it to 100,000 words, completing that draft. This showed me that small daily progress works.
Be in the moment
The reason why slow progress works is because it keeps you in the moment. I don’t know about you but I have moments where I calculate if I do something every day for the rest of my life I would some how “make it”. Make it where I don’t know yet? The future? But the future is not here yet. The future is an unknown place you get to fantasize about without taking any real action. Being in the moment is scary because you have to work through your mindset blocks, your fears and make the active choice of trying something new to get to your goals.
Is it incredible that you get to start each day with the potential of doing something creative, working on your health, deepening a relationship, starting a new job, finding a new hobby… the list can go on. Your multi passionate creative nature thrives on going with the flow in a structured manor. Think a bowling alley with the option to put up the guard rails. Sometimes you want to turn those guards rails off and fly as many balls down the lane as possible. Other times you want the guard rails to help guide you towards your destination.
The guard rails = your flow
The bowling pins = your goals
The bowling ball = your actions
You throwing the ball = your motivation
I honestly don’t know if any of that makes sense but I am going to roll with it.
Practicing being in the moment takes time especially if you are a reader who escapes reality or a maladaptive day dreamer who loves living in your head. Take it day by day, moment by moment and build a sense of camaraderie with the current version of you right now. Sit that girl down and say “listen, this is where we want to go, I need you to help me get there,” and then list one small action you can take right now.
Trust yourself
Learning to trust yourself is hard when you have broken so many promises in the past. This is the reason I started a 75 medium challenge in April of 2025 because I was sick of the same cycle I put myself in where I would start something, stop, start something, stop and then get mad at myself for not making progress.
Balancing multiple passions as a creative woman is hard. It takes discipline, mindset and a love for your passions that no one else will really understand. Some people don’t understand why I want to start a blog in 2025 but I realized I like to write and yap and with the extremely weird technological advances we are having right now. I want this to be truly authentic to me without a f**king robot and m-dashes filling my page.
To start building trust with yourself go back to a project you started and try to finish it. I picked up a crochet project I left to collect dust and completed it. Then I worked on a diamond painting I have had for months that just sat on my desk no where near finished. And I completed it. I decided after each project that I will show up and complete the things I have started. It might take me longer than most. I will take breaks, time off and the get back to it. The affirmation I have been using is… I trust myself to complete all the creative projects I start.
After each completed project no matter how big or small you will start to feel confident in your own abilities to show up. This is the foundations of trusting your actions as a multi passionate creative woman.
Creativity Dates
The biggest hiccup multi passionate creatives face is trying to find time to explore new ideas and projects that might come up. Giving yourself a date or an allotted period of time where you simple just explore and play with a new creative concept will benefit you in the long run. I find that if I hold off on exploring that new idea, it will get louder and louder until I make time for it. This usually stems from a place of “You have so many other projects you SHOULD NOT start a new one” and then I spend weeks being miserable because I haven’t given myself permission to explore.
Your creativity date can be once a week, every two weeks or what ever it looks like to you. It can also be a 1 hour session planning something in notion that has been on your mind. These do not need to be extravagant. The only requirement of your creativity date is that you are having fun!
Celebrate
This one can be hard when you are not seeing the progress you want but celebrating your creativity is essential. Give yourself a pat on the back when you sit down to work on your project even if you made the smallest of progress. Look back at far you have come from three year ago you and celebrate that progress too.
As perfectionist and a creative and an over thinker, I get lost in the “I should be doing more” part of life. Taking a moment to stop and think of the accomplishments that have allowed me to be here right now is hard. I feel like I need to keep working or moving or trying something new or else I will miss an opportunity. This is no way to live when you want to build a creative lifestyle. There is balance between recognize the path you have already walked while staring forward at the next part of your journey. Sometimes that path might have a curve in it or a hill and you can’t really see what is around that corner or over that hill but you know it is going to be something great. Keep pushing forward knowing that every version of you who has helped you get here is cheering you on.
Change is good
Lastly, adopt the mantra that change is good. Change is hard and scary and uncomfortable at times. But change is good. In this day and age it is very easy to get stuck in the day to day doing the exact same thing which get’s predictable but it feels safer than pushing outside your comfort zone. Understand that change will happened and building a friendship with change will make it feel a little less scary. You can adapt. You can overcome whatever curve balls life throws at you. You just have to believe it. As a multi passionate, change is weird because you want to try so many projects and live different creative lives but there is still a need to earn enough money to pay your bills but also pursue your creative projects. This means your life is constantly changing whether you want it to or not. Giving yourself the permission to welcome change no matter how big or small will help you manage the ups and downs that life will inevitable send your way.
Balancing your multiple passions takes time and it starts with accepting your multi passionate creative nature. You do not have to put yourself in a box in order to be successful in this world. You get to learn so many things and live a life filled with creativity.