Quick Thoughts on the Nomad/Expat/Travel Life, Creativity, Productivity and Living a Better Life.

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In this episode, I expand on a blog post regarding Creativity and the 5 roadblocks that I battle with.

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Transcript:

All right, guys, good morning. Welcome to the “Morning FlyBy.” This is Michael. Today is Friday morning. I’m on my way to work and today, I wanna chat a little bit about a blog post that I published yesterday. I think it was yesterday. Something a little different, I don’t really write too much about these types of things, but I have been kind of struggling off and on with my creative consistency, my creative output pretty much for my whole life. I’ve always been a very creative person. 

I’ve always been into writing or, you know, photography, film making, stuff like that. And I’ve kind of gone off and on with my creative output. So over the last three or four years, especially with being in China, where I’ve had a little bit more free time in a certain way, meaning, you know, I’m separated from family and friends from the U.S. so I don’t have to attend as many birthday parties and holidays and stuff like that. 

So I’ve had to fill my time with something and I have invested heavily, finally, in my creative pursuits. So that’s been awesome. That’s been a big win, I guess, in general for me, but as I’ve dedicated more time to it, I also wanted to investigate a little bit about how I can maintain this if I, let’s say, you know, have to move back to the United States someday, or even back to my hometown or something like that, to where my day-to-day responsibilities would change a bit as far as family obligations and stuff like that. 

So what I’m really trying to do is develop a robust set of, you know, practices and routines to make sure that I can continuously spend time on creativity. So while I’ve been diving into how do I strengthen my routines, I came up with five things that, for me at least, routinely damage my creative pursuit, my consistency, and sticking with something and that’s what the blog post is about that I’m referring to. So this morning, I thought I would maybe just touch on those five things. In case you don’t have time to read the blog post, I do encourage you to do that though. It’s on my website, I’ll note that at the end. It’s also linked here in the show notes, but goes into a little bit more detail and kind of my thoughts behind it. So today, I thought, would just be a quick…give you the five things, let you think about it and see what you think. See if you struggle with any of these. 

So the number one thing that I struggle with and I don’t think I’m unique in this regard when it comes to creative output, but I think that most artist, if not all artist that I’ve met anyways and I’ve read about and I’ve done research, struggle with self-doubt and this is something that…I don’t wallow in it. I’m a fairly confident person but, you know, I’m not gonna lie. There are times where I question if, you know, writing is worth my time,