On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift up.

Sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.

Hey, you're listening to the creative pep talk podcast.

I'm your host, Andy J. Pizza.

For most of us, creative people, most of the time, time is the biggest issue.

It's the most precious and scarce commodity there is.

Like, I always thought, once I go full-time artist, man, I'm gonna have so much time, I'm gonna be able to make anything that I want to make.

But now that I am a full-time artist and have been for quite some time, I know that the sad fact is that that is not true.

There is never going to be enough time to make everything that you want to make.

And I have more time than I've ever had.

And I still get frustrated that I'm not able to have all the time to make the work that I want to make, or know how to spend my time in the right way.

Even worse than all that is that when you finally do have a morning or a half day, a nice juicy chunk of time, blocked out, blocked out from the world to make something.

I find that I will waste that time either not knowing what to make, or getting started with something and second guessing at the whole time of life.

Is this the wise way to use this time should I be making something else? It is such an awful feeling and so distracting from trying to get into the flow-stay.

And that's why at the start of the show, there's a jingle that says on the creative journey, it's easy to get lost.

Because for me, the experience of being lost is the most apt analogy for the creative struggle.

That feeling of trying one thing, trying to work on one piece or one project and then giving up and then trying another and doing the same thing over and over, never actually making any progress, that feels like being lost.

Like take one step that way, and you're worried like am I getting closer to where I want to be, or further away?

Like all you can do in that moment is freeze. I mean think back to actually being lost at the pharmacy as a kid, you know, worried about like where's my mom?

Or maybe you got lost in the woods, like Bonneveur, I don't know.

But seriously, every wrong move feels like the one where everything's going to be lost, you're going to miss your chance, you're going to miss the opportunity.

And so, Mom has left the store without you, your dreams are leaving the station without you.

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