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Episode Synopsis
How would you live your life if you could live it any way you wanted to? How would you spend your time? What would you be doing with it?
In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares why he decided to script his ideal day, and how you can script your own.
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Highlights:
00:17 – Why David created his ideal day
02:26 – David’s ideal day, fully scripted
08:38 – Why David would opt to work nine and half hours per day
09:20 – Other essential activities David would engage in
10:53 – How would you script your ideal day?
Transcript:
I just finished drawing up in my notebook what I'm calling my ideal day. Now, I'm not being patronizing. I'm sure you understand what we're talking about when I say setting up your ideal day.
So, Let's talk about why I put this together and I would encourage you to put together your own, even as you're listening, if you can do so, get your notebook out. White paper and blue pen. That's what I believe in.
Things have been going well for me with the music writing. They have for years. A lot of my work has come through that. People read my articles and sometimes check out my music, and people read my articles and sometimes request me to write lyrics. There are all sorts of opportunities that have opened up because of my music writing and they continue to open because of it.
And even though AI has changed the game or seemingly changing the game and people can now put together content faster than ever before, the reality is… Right now, anyway, maybe not in the future, it still requires human input to put together something true and good quality to share with an audience.
My community projects are still going well, and I do have some things going on with the graphic and web design as well. I am a webmaster, too, since I manage many websites.
But as I look to the future of what I want to create, I realize that there are some things that I would very much like to change in my life, and that's what got me thinking about, what would I do.
What would my day look like if I were to create it outside of all my current obligations and commitments, which are important? But some of them will one day come to an end, many of them, I mean all of them will come to an end at some point. But I'm just saying that some of my current commitments have expiration dates.
So, what would I be doing with my time daily, discipline-wise and work-wise, if I was free to choose and create however I wanted to create it?
Here's what I came up with:
I would spend 30 minutes writing songs, and songwriting. I think that would be more than enough time. I'm always looking at consistency, right?
So, I'm not thinking about, “Oh, you know, today I need to spend eight hours writing songs.” No, if I spent 30 minutes a day, either organizing, managing, building on the songs that I already have, or drawing up new ideas, I would have more than enough music.
I do have more than enough music right now to last me a good long while if I were to release it, whether in pieces or albums.
And I would spend 60 minutes recording. Inevitably, this is much more effort and time than expected. I think most days, it's almost like you must be well-rested if you want to record well. You want to show up confident. It's almost like the microphones, or the inputs know when you're not feeling your best. And when you show up that way to record, you just don't do your best takes.
But if I spent 60 minutes per day producing and making music, I would complete and release more projects.
I would spend another hour writing my next book. I've got multiple book projects, and as I've probably shared before, many of them are nearing completion.
And while I do have kind of my focus right now on the Productivity,
In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares why he decided to script his ideal day, and how you can script your own.
Sponsors:
Clean Slate: The most exciting and inspirational New Year live music and multi-media event you’ve ever been to. Get your tickets now, before they’re gone!
Highlights:
00:17 – Why David created his ideal day
02:26 – David’s ideal day, fully scripted
08:38 – Why David would opt to work nine and half hours per day
09:20 – Other essential activities David would engage in
10:53 – How would you script your ideal day?
Transcript:
I just finished drawing up in my notebook what I'm calling my ideal day. Now, I'm not being patronizing. I'm sure you understand what we're talking about when I say setting up your ideal day.
So, Let's talk about why I put this together and I would encourage you to put together your own, even as you're listening, if you can do so, get your notebook out. White paper and blue pen. That's what I believe in.
Things have been going well for me with the music writing. They have for years. A lot of my work has come through that. People read my articles and sometimes check out my music, and people read my articles and sometimes request me to write lyrics. There are all sorts of opportunities that have opened up because of my music writing and they continue to open because of it.
And even though AI has changed the game or seemingly changing the game and people can now put together content faster than ever before, the reality is… Right now, anyway, maybe not in the future, it still requires human input to put together something true and good quality to share with an audience.
My community projects are still going well, and I do have some things going on with the graphic and web design as well. I am a webmaster, too, since I manage many websites.
But as I look to the future of what I want to create, I realize that there are some things that I would very much like to change in my life, and that's what got me thinking about, what would I do.
What would my day look like if I were to create it outside of all my current obligations and commitments, which are important? But some of them will one day come to an end, many of them, I mean all of them will come to an end at some point. But I'm just saying that some of my current commitments have expiration dates.
So, what would I be doing with my time daily, discipline-wise and work-wise, if I was free to choose and create however I wanted to create it?
Here's what I came up with:
I would spend 30 minutes writing songs, and songwriting. I think that would be more than enough time. I'm always looking at consistency, right?
So, I'm not thinking about, “Oh, you know, today I need to spend eight hours writing songs.” No, if I spent 30 minutes a day, either organizing, managing, building on the songs that I already have, or drawing up new ideas, I would have more than enough music.
I do have more than enough music right now to last me a good long while if I were to release it, whether in pieces or albums.
And I would spend 60 minutes recording. Inevitably, this is much more effort and time than expected. I think most days, it's almost like you must be well-rested if you want to record well. You want to show up confident. It's almost like the microphones, or the inputs know when you're not feeling your best. And when you show up that way to record, you just don't do your best takes.
But if I spent 60 minutes per day producing and making music, I would complete and release more projects.
I would spend another hour writing my next book. I've got multiple book projects, and as I've probably shared before, many of them are nearing completion.
And while I do have kind of my focus right now on the Productivity,
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