What's up, friends? It's your buddy Chase for another micro show here. And I want to get

something clear. You know that productivity gibberish you read in your social feeds every day?

I think it's a waste of time. 95% of it that is a waste of time because it's it's basically

become an institution now with deals with the symptoms of a problem

rather than the root, rather than the cause. So I have a question for you. Are you busy?

If so, I want you to know that busy has nothing to do with cool. Busy does not mean cool.

It doesn't mean you're fulfilled or living some rich life.

I think generally busy means lack of priority. Now, somewhat controversial, but instead of finding

ways to cram more five-minute meetings into today or accelerate that hamster wheel of all the

emails that you're so proud of responding to or all the other stuff that

you check off your to-do list. What about starting to think about cultivating a state of mind

and a set of actions that will actually lead to you unleashing your creative power, achieving

some of these true dreams that you have in life.

Regularly practicing your creative craft or your hobby or your career, whatever it is

that you care deeply about, that's just one part of the story, it turns out.

For every aspect of discipline focus on your primary pursuit, whatever your goal in

life is, whether that's your knowledge of light for photography or technique for blacksmithing

or color theory for painting, I don't care what it is, there's a need for and a benefit to

staying creatively nimble in a very broad sense of the word as well.

For example, even though photography has long been my primary area of focus, I would say of

mastery, I practice a daily habit of creating something outside, something beyond photography

every day.

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