“When we’re in a negative mindset, our creativity is crushed, and when we can keep a more positive mindset, our creativity flourishes.” That’s a paraphrased quote from a short conversation I had today with a friend of mine, Sam. While it might seem obvious, it’s an observation that helped me pause. One of those self-evident obstacles, that when noticed, suddenly becomes easier to confront.
I’ve been hiding a bit and while I’ve created a number of microcast sessions recently — I have refrained from posting them, feeling that I’m not happy with them as is — my list of excuses and explanations would get too long if I let it. I’m posting this one tonight, almost solely in the name of trying to grab on to any thread of momentum I can find. As I explain in the microcast above, my creativity has been feeling anemic the last long while… I hope I can put that trend behind me.
The intro / outro music on this track is called Tiptoe Out the Back by Dan Lebowitz, sourced from YouTube Audio Library I’ve been working through some of the tasks in the Podcast Workshop, one of which is to create a proper intro for some of the microcasts I’ll be creating. This one will work for now. Already looking forward to tinkering and evolving the intro / outro for future microcasts.
Hi Adam, thank you for sharing your current state of creativity. I think that you are in the right spot even if it doesn’t feel like it. I know how you feel because I am also an artist and my mind often wanders into a negative dark space but somehow it is always just for a moment and eventually I create something that at the end is quite rewarding. I love your intro music. That is my task for tonight, to look at some music for my podcast. I am so behind with everything (although I am not interested in interviewing people so a bit lost as well) but I will keep plodding along and it will happen eventually. I really like the idea of a shared creative journal, I will introduce that idea to my kids tomorrow (I also have three). Keep going, it will get easier and it’s worth it! Onwards!
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