Fuse Chamber

One of the challenges of being a modern artist is that there’s a lot to do in a day.   Your art might be your side hustle, so there’s a full time job, family, friends, and daily life all competing for attention with your core offering - your creativity.  How can you get ultra productive and disciplined, and what do you do if you’re stuck…..unmotivated and blocked?

* For ultimate productivity, you need to start building rituals now

* One of the rituals you can start using right away is “drop and give me 10” to stoke your creative furnace and break out of blocks

Your reason for doing everything matters more than anything.  How can you use Intention to improve your outcomes?

* Begin with intention - know your reason for doing things before you set out to do them.   This helps with motivation and prioritization.

* Use visualization to envision a successful performance or delivery every time you have something valuable on the line.

Your reason for doing everything matters more than anything.  How can you use Intention to improve your outcomes?

* Begin with intention - know your reason for doing things before you set out to do them.   This helps with motivation and prioritization.

* Use visualization to envision a successful performance or delivery every time you have something valuable on the line.

On this show we cover the fundamentals - be visionary, get focused, work hard, get gritty, always improve.   That’s general advice, and those fundamentals are lifelong lighthouses - you should seek to study and perfect your ability to live those values every day.   But how do you actually achieve stuff?

* You have to constantly set targets

* Some targets should challenge you, others should just keep you moving

* You can’t just set goals - if you do this part wrong, it can make things worse.

* You need to right-size your goals, and do it at multiple levels

* Your goals need to be VISIBLE, but you don’t need special tools to do that.

On this show we cover the fundamentals - be visionary, get focused, work hard, get gritty, always improve.   That’s general advice, and those fundamentals are lifelong lighthouses - you should seek to study and perfect your ability to live those values every day.   But how do you actually achieve stuff?

* You have to constantly set targets

* Some targets should challenge you, others should just keep you moving

* You can’t just set goals - if you do this part wrong, it can make things worse.

* You need to right-size your goals, and do it at multiple levels

* Your goals need to be VISIBLE, but you don’t need special tools to do that.

What’s the Difference between people who dream massive dreams, and those who are living those massive dreams?

* They simply believe that they are limitless

* Obstacles become problems to solve

* Limitations become competitive advantages

* Hard work seems like nothing.  Failures seem like victories

What’s the Difference between people who dream massive dreams, and those who are living those massive dreams?

* They simply believe that they are limitless

* Obstacles become problems to solve

* Limitations become competitive advantages

* Hard work seems like nothing.  Failures seem like victories

If you’ve been listening for a while, you know I’m big on service.  To review, service is the thing that validates your vision.  Without service, a vision can be nothing more than a wishlist….a catalog of benefits that only accrue to you.  Service ensures that you know exactly who your vision serves, how, and most importantly, why.  So how do I figure out what that is if I’m just an ordinary, everyday person?  That’s this week on the Fuse Chamber Podcast.

* There’s nothing extraordinary about service.

* If you don’t think you serve, try looking at your customers differently

* It’s important to figure out how you serve - there’s something about the selfless act that makes success more more easily available

I used to be one of those people who struggled with consistent creativity.  You’ve heard me repeat that the secret to having good ideas is to have lots of them….so I prefer to take the disciplined work approach to getting a reliable creativity flow.

* You can either work on ‘inspiration’ at scheduled times and groom the pile for the useful bits later.

* You can also wait for inspiration to show up - but this method rarely produces any meaningful volume or consistency of output

* Remember to surround yourself with inspiration before your writing ritual

* Also, have a convenient way to capture notes whether you’re in bed, in the car, or in a lineup

* The real secret is to stay disciplined.  Make a promise to do the work and actually delivery.  EVERY day.

I used to be one of those people who struggled with consistent creativity.  You’ve heard me repeat that the secret to having good ideas is to have lots of them….so I prefer to take the disciplined work approach to getting a reliable creativity flow.

* You can either work on ‘inspiration’ at scheduled times and groom the pile for the useful bits later.

* You can also wait for inspiration to show up - but this method rarely produces any meaningful volume or consistency of output

* Remember to surround yourself with inspiration before your writing ritual

* Also, have a convenient way to capture notes whether you’re in bed, in the car, or in a lineup

* The real secret is to stay disciplined.  Make a promise to do the work and actually delivery.  EVERY day.