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Episode Synopsis
For ambitious artists, waiting on the sidelines hoping for the right opportunity is NOT an option. Creating the life you love through your creativity will require that you stretch beyond what you think you’re comfortable with right now.
In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares why you need to make a mess now, and what you can do to clean it up after the fact (if you even need to!).
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Highlights:
00:17 – Why you should make a mess in your career and life
01:26 – Freeing yourself from the domain of “good” or “bad”
02:41 – What it looks like to make a mess
05:51 – Declaring the incomplete, complete
06:17 – Turn to a mentor or coach for help
07:00 – Building your “mess muscle”
07:27 – Look at what needs to be cleaned up, and clean it up!
07:57 – Determine what you will continue to do, and what you won’t
Transcript:
Today we get to talk about making a mess. And I am an advocate for going and making a mess in your music career and frankly, even in your life, in your projects, in romance and practically every area of life where you want to begin to see results.
Here's the thing. We only live once. Sure. If we were to think in terms of abstraction or spirituality, we probably do live forever in some way, shape, or form. Maybe we're spirits, maybe we get reincarnated, maybe there's an afterlife.
But as far as this life is concerned, the one that you are living right now, this one, this opportunity… It won't come around again. And that being the case, if we sit on the sidelines and wait and watch and observe as though we are watching TV or YouTube or Netflix, which is pretty much what smartphones and social media and TV and movies are training us to do, we don't get to enjoy all the exploits and spoils that are available.
If we sit on the sidelines and wait and watch and observe as though we are watching YouTube, we won't get to enjoy the spoils that are available.Share on X
Now, I understand that making a mess can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can also be very confronting, so we are going to talk about some of the ways to deal with conflict, to deal with rejection, to deal with anything else that comes up along the way that doesn't strike you as being “good,” and understand first and foremost that whatever is good or bad is a label that we create. It's a meaning that we've been trained to assign.
Everything is supposed to be good and bad and divided into like, don't like, right, wrong, like it, don't like it. Everything tends to go into that category when we're not aware of it. So, we can easily end up creating stories around what is good or bad.
The point is you're going to get results and that's exciting, isn't it?
I mean, it's much better than life at a standstill. Your music career at a standstill, your romantic life at a standstill. Nothing's happening. So, you assume you're wrong, you assume you're bad, you assume you're not attractive. You assume you're being rejected by everyone, and that's your reality, and you're stuck there. And maybe, the truth is, if you took a few more chances, that would not be your reality at all.
So, what is going and making a mess look like? Well, in your music career, it could look like instead of just making a list of venues to call, calling those venues, making an unreasonable goal to call 20, 30, 40 venues a day, and figuring out which ones are going to say “yes” to you.
In dating, it could look like sending more messages. Joining Facebook dating, joining Match, joining Tinder.
People have so much going on about, “Well, I want it to be casual,” or “Well, I don't want it to be casual,” or “I'm really not sure what I want but I'm here because I think I want something.” Stop it.
You don't know what anything has the potential to turn into before you'...
In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares why you need to make a mess now, and what you can do to clean it up after the fact (if you even need to!).
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 you should make a mess in your career and life
01:26 – Freeing yourself from the domain of “good” or “bad”
02:41 – What it looks like to make a mess
05:51 – Declaring the incomplete, complete
06:17 – Turn to a mentor or coach for help
07:00 – Building your “mess muscle”
07:27 – Look at what needs to be cleaned up, and clean it up!
07:57 – Determine what you will continue to do, and what you won’t
Transcript:
Today we get to talk about making a mess. And I am an advocate for going and making a mess in your music career and frankly, even in your life, in your projects, in romance and practically every area of life where you want to begin to see results.
Here's the thing. We only live once. Sure. If we were to think in terms of abstraction or spirituality, we probably do live forever in some way, shape, or form. Maybe we're spirits, maybe we get reincarnated, maybe there's an afterlife.
But as far as this life is concerned, the one that you are living right now, this one, this opportunity… It won't come around again. And that being the case, if we sit on the sidelines and wait and watch and observe as though we are watching TV or YouTube or Netflix, which is pretty much what smartphones and social media and TV and movies are training us to do, we don't get to enjoy all the exploits and spoils that are available.
If we sit on the sidelines and wait and watch and observe as though we are watching YouTube, we won't get to enjoy the spoils that are available.Share on X
Now, I understand that making a mess can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can also be very confronting, so we are going to talk about some of the ways to deal with conflict, to deal with rejection, to deal with anything else that comes up along the way that doesn't strike you as being “good,” and understand first and foremost that whatever is good or bad is a label that we create. It's a meaning that we've been trained to assign.
Everything is supposed to be good and bad and divided into like, don't like, right, wrong, like it, don't like it. Everything tends to go into that category when we're not aware of it. So, we can easily end up creating stories around what is good or bad.
The point is you're going to get results and that's exciting, isn't it?
I mean, it's much better than life at a standstill. Your music career at a standstill, your romantic life at a standstill. Nothing's happening. So, you assume you're wrong, you assume you're bad, you assume you're not attractive. You assume you're being rejected by everyone, and that's your reality, and you're stuck there. And maybe, the truth is, if you took a few more chances, that would not be your reality at all.
So, what is going and making a mess look like? Well, in your music career, it could look like instead of just making a list of venues to call, calling those venues, making an unreasonable goal to call 20, 30, 40 venues a day, and figuring out which ones are going to say “yes” to you.
In dating, it could look like sending more messages. Joining Facebook dating, joining Match, joining Tinder.
People have so much going on about, “Well, I want it to be casual,” or “Well, I don't want it to be casual,” or “I'm really not sure what I want but I'm here because I think I want something.” Stop it.
You don't know what anything has the potential to turn into before you'...
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