504 - Reduce Overwhelm and Unlock More Creative Work with This

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Feeling lost on the creative journey? Download our 7 step Creative Career Path Handbooklet for FREE by signing up to our newsletter here: andyjpizza.substack.com --- Are you overwhelmed pretty much no matter what you do? Are you overwhelmed by long to do lists? Short ones? Complex and simple ones? In this episode I will share a recent shift that has made a big impact on me that resulted in me feeling less overwhelmed and more able to be creatively productive. SHOW NOTES: Co-Writing / Editing: Sophie Miller http://sophiemiller.coAudio Editing / Sound Design: Conner Jones http://pendingbeautiful.coSoundtrack / Theme Song: Yoni Wolf / WHY? http://whywithaquestionmark.com John Cleese on Creativity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvKeu46jgwo Cal Newport https://calnewport.com SPONSORS:SQUARESPACEHead to https://www.squarespace.com/PEPTALK to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PEPTALK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift off.
0:10.9	Sometimes you just need a creative pep talk.
0:20.7	Okay, so I'm guessing you're like me and you feel like there's just too much to
0:26.9	freaking do.
0:28.3	You've got to do stuff for a book.
0:30.0	You've got to do stuff for Instagram or social media.
0:33.0	You've got to start up on that new platform.
0:35.0	You've got to finish that project.
0:36.7	You've got to do your emails.
0:37.8	Blah, blah, blah.
0:38.8	Even as I'm saying it, it's stressing me out to think about all the different things that I
0:44.5	need to do this week.
0:46.7	And so I'm not going to list anymore, but I'm sure that you feel that way.
0:51.4	For me, often, I will look at the five days a week that I have and I think
0:56.6	I've got 10 days worth of stuff that I could fill this five days with. Like it is an over-constrained
1:04.1	problem. It's like you've got five pie tens and enough filling for 10 or 20. And it's really overwhelming.
1:13.8	And I feel like that all the time.
1:16.3	And you might be in a situation hearing that and thinking, dude, Andy, if I had, if I was a
1:21.2	full-time creative person and I had five days to do all of this creative stuff, I wouldn't be complaining, and you're probably right about that.
1:30.8	However, I can think back to when I had 30 minutes a day
1:35.9	when I could do any creative stuff at the beginning,
1:38.5	when I still had other jobs and commitments and stuff of that nature.
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