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

sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.

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

creative journey. I'm Annie Jay Pizza. I'm a New York Times best-selling

author and illustrator and I will be your guide on this

creative expedition. Let's go. We talk a lot on this show about analysis

paralysis. If you're a creative person show about analysis paralysis analysis.

If you're a creative person,

it is usually not the case

that you're struggling because you have no ideas,

you have no idea what you could want or what you could go after most of the

time the most of the creative people that I know at least struggle with having too many desires, too many ideas, too many directions,

too many options, and feeling like I don't know what to focus on, I don't even know what to go after. And it makes me wonder if this is maybe

what the magic, if there's any magic to things like law of attraction or the secret.

I don't know if it's really magic in the sense that if you want something bad enough,

it'll come to you magically, but maybe the magic is just that if you really truly know what you want,

that you will be a unicorn in at least the creative world because it's so difficult to pick a path, to pick a goal, to get your whole self focused on one endeavor without derailing your own train so to speak because my

trains of thought go all over the place as a creative person and especially a creative person with ADHD.

So what do you do when you're mixed up, you're uninspired, you're overwhelmed by too many options, you've tried to start so many marathons and you barely

get past the first mile before changing directions all over again.

How do you figure out what to focus your creative energy on?

That's what we're going to talk about in this episode, and if you'll stay to the end,

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