Process Over Product
- Carmen Gowie
- Jan 16
- 1 min read
Updated: Jan 17
I used to rush towards outcomes.
Finished pieces.
Final designs.Polished results.
I thought the product was the proof.
But the longer I create, the more I realise that the process is where the truth lives and I love that aspect of understanding myself as a female creative.
The doubts.
The pauses.
The false starts.
The moments where you don’t know if what you’re making will ever become anything at all.
That space — the in-between — is where creativity actually happens.
Process teaches you patience.
It teaches you trust.
It teaches you how to stay present without certainty.
When I started honouring process over product, everything shifted. I stopped forcing clarity. I stopped rushing decisions. I allowed ideas to mature in their own time.
Some became websites.
Some became posters.
Some harness space, social justice and belonging.
Some became nothing at all.
And that was okay.
Because the value was never only in what was produced.
It was in what I learned about myself along the way.
If you’re feeling pressure to finish, to ship, to publish, to prove — this is your permission to slow down, trust me.
Your process is not wasted time.
It is the work.
Love
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