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

Sometimes you just need a creative pencil.

Hey, you're listening to Creative Pat Talk, a weekly podcast companion for your creative

journey. I'm your host Andy J. Pizza, an illustrator for clients like Xbox, Lego, and New York

Times. And I make this show because as someone who is a creator and has ADHD, I know from personal

experience that for some people having a thriving creative practice isn't just a nice to

have, but a must in terms of your sanity or even in terms of your career. Now, I don't

know about you, but for me, a lot of times in my creative journey, when I'm not making progress,

it's not that I'm lost, it's not that I don't have any good ideas. It's that I have too many

ideas and I don't know which of them are good or which of them I should choose. It's not that I

can't come up with an idea for a new book. It's that I have 15 ideas and I just don't know which

one to invest in. And in today's episode, I want to share a mindset that has helped me see those

moments not as something to run from, but that they are the opportunity for your biggest creative

breakthrough. If you can recognize the opportunity for what it really is. So if that's you, if you've

been stuck with indecision, not really making any progress, not because you don't have ideas,

but because you have too many, this episode is for you. And if you stick around to the very end,

I'm going to share something that I am calling a dry bones collage that has been the backbone of

my creative practice over the past decade plus. And it'll help you see these moments of indecision

or analysis paralysis, not as something to avoid, but as something that can be the secret to your

creative sauce to your biggest creative breakthroughs. Let's do it.

So in my creative journey, the way that I've started to use this ability to see infinite potential

and infinite options as a superpower instead of as something that stops me in my tracks is step one

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