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The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show

Overcome Creative Obstacles

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

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

One of the most popular questions I get is how to overcome the creative obstacles that are in the world. Whether they are out there, or within us, we've told ourselves a bunch of stories of why we can't create. I thought it would be very helpful, based on listener requests, to do an episode on creative obstacles.

When you're feeling stuck, recognize you're not waiting to be able to create, you're waiting to FEEL LIKE creating. That's a very different thing. The trap is that we often don't feel like creating until we're well under way. If you wait for the feeling to come before you start, you're going to be sitting there waiting.

So when I look to figure out what is actually blocking me from creating, I think about these three things:
* Am I waiting for someday or that perfect moment? how can I start now? what's one thing I can do to move me forward?
* Where is my time going? How can I structure my time such that realign schedule with my ambitions and values
* How can I work in microbursts and reset my expectations on what I can create in a given moment.

Ready to start moving forward? I'll see you over in the episode.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0

So one of the most popular questions that I get, without a doubt, no questions asked.

0:11.5

I don't even have to look at the data because I know it just from being bombarded with

0:16.6

it for so long and so often.

0:20.0

That is how to overcome the creative obstacles that are out there in the world.

0:26.7

And ironically, whether they're out there or in here, we've told ourselves a bunch of stories

0:33.0

about why we can't create.

0:36.2

So I've written at length about this this and I thought it would be very,

0:41.2

very helpful based largely on your requests to do a show where we focus on overcoming

0:46.8

creative obstacles. And to set the table, you've heard me talk at length before about creating

0:53.2

space to work, you know, first and foremost

0:56.5

headspace, right? Are you, you know, how can you on a regular basis maintain a mindset that's

1:02.6

helpful? You've heard me talk about a physical space. It doesn't need to be perfect. We'd all love

1:07.4

a studio overlooking the sea, but we need just something that's good enough, right?

1:12.2

We don't need perfect.

1:13.5

We need good enough.

1:15.1

We've talked about, you know, music and mood and all that stuff.

1:19.1

And while that can be helpful, I want to just get to the brass hacks of what actually has to happen.

1:26.5

And I think there's three things that I would like you to pay attention to.

1:31.3

The first one is around you don't feel like it.

1:36.8

And I want you to ask yourself, when you're feeling stuck, you have to recognize that it's not,

1:47.8

it's not that you're waiting to be able to create.

1:53.9

It's that you're waiting to feel like creating. And those are very, very, very different things.

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