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Creativity Can Be Exhausting and The Lesson I Learned

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March 20, 2015 by Kendra 9 Comments

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Creativity can be exhausting. After three fails I realized that my creativity may have out-ran my skills. But I did learn an important lesson. #MullerMoment #ad

Have you ever had the perfect idea? I mean the type of idea that is going to knock the socks off of all who see it?

I did. Let me tell you about it. This idea was so perfect that I nearly did a happy dance just thinking about it. It was going to look beautiful, I would take an amazing, perfectly staged photo and blog about it.

In fact, I humbly figured that this idea was so great that my post would probably go viral. It was Just. That. Great.

My pride didn’t stop there though. Oh no. This post was going to have a video with it. I’ve read that video can really improve your visitor’s experience on-site and I was going to do it. Never mind that I don’t have a lot of experience. My head apparently, was large enough to handle it.

Let me explain.

Creativity Can Be Exhausting

Last Saturday I visited a local Walmart and sampled a bit of the Müller® Ice Cream Inspired Yogurt. I ended leaving with several containers of it. The yogurt was amazing; just right, with a bit of wrong. 🙂

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I wanted to pair the chocolate mint with a dark chocolate brownie. But here is where my creativity outran my skills. Just a brownie and Müller® Ice Cream Inspired Yogurt wasn’t good enough for me. No. I was going to turn those brownies and the yogurt into a roll.

It was going to be epic.

So I got started. I was a bit tired though, and somehow or the other totally forgot to add flour. Oops! Minor set-back though. With a still inflated head, I made my brownies again the next day.

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The brownies turned out great. I spread my yogurt over the top, rolled it up and placed it in the freezer, fairly dancing with delight over my success. It was all going well until I pulled it from the freezer to slice.

My attempt to make a Brownie, frozen yogurt roll. Creativity can be exhausting! #MullerMoment #ad

This was NOT a success!

What to do, what to do?!?

As the hot air is leaking out of my once over-inflated head and salty water leaks from my eyes, I consider what went wrong.

After much pondering, I figured out where I went wrong and decided try again. This time would be THE time. After all, third time’s a charm! Right???

I get up extra early the next morning and bake another pan of brownies. On my way to work, I stop at Walmart and pick up some more yogurt.

Muller Icream Inspired Yogurt at Walmart.#MullerMoment #ad

Once I get home from work, I set up my work area and camera and begin to film/assemble my dark chocolate, frozen yogurt roll. I carefully corrected where I went wrong the time before and placed it in the freezer again.

I was so confident that the result would be amazing that I even shared a sneak-peak on Instagram.

 

Sneak peak at some yummy goodness that’s coming soon with ice cream inspired yogurt from Muller. #mullermoment #ad

A photo posted by Kendra Stamy (@aproverbswife) on Mar 17, 2015 at 3:38pm PDT

I check out my video. It turned out really good. The lighting was great, I stayed in the camera range, my words were clear and flowed nicely; it would only need a small amount of editing.

Then I heard it.

I’m working with Müller® Ice Cream Inspired Yogurt, but here is what I say: “I really love this Müller, it is so good”. Really?!?! This is a new product, who is going to know what I’m talking about?

Even worse? It sounded like I said Miller!

Sigh. No video this time folks. But the frozen yogurt brownie roll is going to be epic!

Epic Failure that is.

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With my head now thoroughly deflated, I have to chuckle. Somehow I got so caught up in creating THE perfect desert to go with my post, that I actually forgot the theme I was supposed to be going with.

The theme is how I find time for a #MeMoment and sharing how I like to treat myself with Müller® Ice Cream Inspired Yogurt. A time where I can just put aside all the demands of life, and just for a minute, relax while enjoying a yummy treat.

I’m sorry. Stressing over THE PERFECT recipe isn’t relaxing!

So here’s my “me moment”. It doesn’t happen very often but I do have my times. There are days when supper is easy and Kolton goes down for a nap as soon as we get home from work. On those days I try to unwind just a bit.

Today’s time is simple. It’s easy. It doesn’t require an impossible recipe.

I grab my book, Müller® Ice Cream Inspired Yogurt, (vanilla bean flavor) and some fresh fruit. It’s peaceful and relaxing.

Creativity can be exhausting. After three fails I realized that my creativity may have out-ran my skills. But I did learn an important lesson. #MullerMoment #ad

I pop a bite of yogurt in my mouth and savor the flavor. With my eyes shut, the sun lightly kisses my cheeks while the breeze is fluffing my hair. I can hear dogs barking and birds singing, with a faint rush of traffic in the background.

Forget the book, I’m taking a nap!

Do you think creativity can be exhausting? I would love to hear your fails. (Really, it would make me feel better!)

The ice-cream inspired flavors are available in Vanilla Bean, Mint Chip, and Chocolate raspberry. I took a chocolate raspberry for lunch the other day and it was tasty!

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  1. Mrs. Sarah Coller says

    March 20, 2015 at 1:46 pm

    Oh I love this, Kendra! Ha!!! Sometimes (oftentimes) simplifying things is the best way to go! I definitely have one of these stories too.. In fact, I think you’ll love reading about how I tried to follow my Great-Grandma’s recipe literally. NOT GOOD. 🙂
    http://www.hopeineveryseason.com/2013/02/apple-rolls-from-great-grandmas-kitchen.html

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  2. Jane says

    March 20, 2015 at 2:26 pm

    Your a funny lady! Just scoop it all up and enjoy!

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    • Kendra says

      March 20, 2015 at 2:34 pm

      Oh I am! It just really irks me because I wanted it to be perfect.
      In fact, I plan on trying again… with a normal sized head that is 😉

      Reply
  3. Sandra says

    March 23, 2015 at 8:24 am

    Thank you so much for putting into words what I find happening in my life all to often! It’s encouraging to know that others have epic ideas that fail, we are normal human beings! During this season, however, I am grateful that God’s epic plan for salvation did not fail!

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    • Kendra says

      March 23, 2015 at 9:34 am

      That is one epic plan! Only God could’ve pulled it off too. I’m so thankful we serve him!

      Reply
  4. Sherry B says

    March 23, 2015 at 9:38 am

    As I was reading this through, husband at the other end of the sofa, I wonder how many times he looked at me like I was loosing my mind because I let out several little under-breath chuckles for apparently no reason! Thank you for producing great, CLEAN, interesting articles that also brighten our days with some humor.

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    • Kendra says

      March 23, 2015 at 10:01 am

      Awe, thanks Sherry, I’m so glad people are enjoying it.
      This project had me sooo stressed! I had a deadline for this post and I finally had to recognize that sometimes things just don’t work out. 🙂 All the same, I have plans to try it again!

      Reply
  5. Carolyn West says

    March 23, 2015 at 2:47 pm

    Ha! This is so perfect. As a blogger, I have totally done this before… you think you have THE perfect idea and then it just doesn’t come out the way you imagined it. So what? I bet it tasted phenomenal. And glad you had a little time to actually relax. Yes, creativity IS exhausting. #client

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    • Kendra says

      March 23, 2015 at 2:58 pm

      It DID! It’s almost all which means I think it’s time to try again! 🙂
      And yes, time to relax is rare, but baby was napping that day so after the mini photo-shoot….

      Reply

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