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The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show

How to Navigate Hard Days and Creative Ruts

The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show

Chase Jarvis

Celebrity, Art, Career, Creativity, Money, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education, Careers, Writing, Interview, Investment, Influencer, Business, Photography

4.8641 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever found yourself in a creative rut? How did you get out of it? And if you’re in one right now, what tools can you use to create change? I recently received a question via the text community (206-309-5177) from a creator named Alex, asking about overcoming hard days. In lieu of May being mental health month, I wanted to share a few thoughts based on what’s worked for me, with the hope to bring some value to you.

Here is the question from Alex:

“Hey, Chase. I generally do a really good job of taking care of my mental health. I use tools like positive self-talk, meditation, exercise, or even just call friends when I'm feeling down or discouraged. But sometimes we have really tough days. So I'd love to know how you handle the really tough days. Do you have any advice on weathering some of the deeper challenges we face as creators?”

Enjoy!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, what's up? It's Chase. In this micro show, I wanted to respond to a question

0:10.0

that I received in my text community. You're not sure what I mean by text community, and you've been

0:14.9

unaware of this for some crazy reason because I talk about it a lot. The text community is a place

0:19.0

you can reach me, ask your questions. We can exchange notes just like you text with your other friends. I want you to consider

0:25.7

me a friend by texting at 206 309-5177. There's a great community there. I, you know, can make

0:33.0

little personal videos and if you have problems, I do my best. It's my thumbs on the other side of that

0:37.7

tech community. So this question came in. I will just call him Alex. Let's just say that.

0:43.6

It's not his real name because I want to protect his identity. But the question was this.

0:49.1

Hey, Chase, I generally do a really good job of taking care of my mental health. I use tools like positive

0:55.1

self-talk, meditation, exercise, or I even just call friends when I'm feeling down or discouraged.

1:01.2

But sometimes we have really tough days. So I'd love to know how you handle the really tough days.

1:08.3

Do you have any advice on weathering some of life's biggest hurdles?

1:13.6

Well, Alex, I think it's a very valuable question.

1:16.6

It's one of the reasons I wanted to feature this question on the show and make a micro show

1:22.6

around what I find to be an important topic.

1:26.6

And it's important because I think we ought to carve it

1:29.1

up into two camps. And the two camps are, one is a camp of true mental health challenges that go

1:39.5

beyond having a bad day or being in a rut a disorder a consistent prolonged problem and these can

1:48.7

manifest in many different ways unresolved family trauma experiencing some trauma in the moment

1:55.6

bad breakups or things that really really have you upset and things that require grieving and healing.

2:03.3

And for all of those, I recommend professional help.

2:07.1

I think you need to be doing all of the things that I have preached ad nauseum across all

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