How to Amp Up Your Creative Productivity

Daily Boost Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Over the years, I have personally produced over 10,000 podcasts, and every one of them begins with the written word. Even though that makes my mouth and my fingers my most exercised body parts, it has also given me lots of opportunities to learn to keep my words flowing. If you're like most people, you have found yourself sitting in front of a blank screen, praying for inspiration. It could be writer's block, procrastination, or maybe you stayed up late watching Netflix. In any case, there's a simple solution to always having a starting point. Any project I need to wrap my head around begins by capturing the ideas that flow into my mind throughout the day. Even turning the radio off on a 20-minute drive can provide a treasure-trove of useable nuggets. Next, I tuck those ideas away in a safe place, with no organizing, editing, or re-writing. I grab the thoughts out of the air, jot a note or record a memo, put them away, and let them simmer. When I'm ready to get to work, I take 15 minutes the day before to review my creative genius list, toss out what is not relevant, create a simple outline and walk away knowing I am ready to begin. The next day, I can't wait to sit in front of a blank screen and let the magic start flowing from my figure tips with complete ease. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's happening? Happy, happy, happy, happy Wednesday. Man, how you doing? Are you hanging
0:20.2	on with the ride? Because sometimes life gets in the way and makes it kind of bumpy and
0:24.3	like, what the heck has happened in here? Well, maybe that's not happening for you this
0:27.9	week, but I know it's happening to some, I'm thinking a couple people right now, I know
0:30.6	life is just crazy right now. I try to avoid that at all cost and usually do fairly well.
0:35.8	That's going to help you with. Now today, I want to get into some creativity. Now, I have
0:38.8	done, I've always been creative guy ever since I was a teenager, have earned my living being
0:43.2	creative over the years, TV, radio, film, all kinds of stuff. And nowadays, what I do these
0:48.7	days is what I do. Crack it out of podcast. And with over 10,000 episodes in production
0:54.8	at this point, I'm pretty prolific. So I'm going to share with you know, how I do that
0:58.6	today. Maybe that'll help you out. Okay. How are you? It is a daily boost from motivation
1:02.9	to move.com. And I'm happy to have you. My name is Scott Smith, founder, chief motivating
1:07.6	officer, Larro, for that, their place where we, you know, pretty simple mission. I mean,
1:14.3	it's life is long if you're lucky. I don't know. Most of us get bored. You know, we just
1:20.6	don't want to spend time with yourself. We don't know how to spend time with ourselves.
1:23.4	We just get caught up in the caught up. And I know life gets busy. My daughter's got
1:26.4	a couple of couple of boys and they're almost almost six nine now. And she gets crazy
1:32.0	over there. And I get it. It's like, where you been? Why haven't you checked in with me?
1:34.8	Oh, homeschools them. They're busy. It's crazy stuff. I get it. I get it. Life is like
1:40.2	that. But still, we will move ourself in a direction where we can really create the
1:43.5	life that you want. Not in what I want you to have, but what you want. That's what
1:46.6	the show's all about. Happy to have you here today. So let's talk about creativity.
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