487 - Apathetic About Goals? Uncover A Different Source of "Infinite" Motivation

Creative Pep Talk

Education, Business, Arts, Design

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

If you’re struggling to create goals that feel motivating, this episode is for you! Goals have their place, but sometimes we need to tap into a more renewable motivation. In this episode I share a shift that freaking changed the game for me! For real! Hope you get the same boost from this that I did! Join our January Virtual Pep Rally by supporting on Substack or Patreon! andyjpizza.substack.com https://www.patreon.com/c/creativepeptalk Albert Camus - Sisyphus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus Austin Kleon - Keep Going https://austinkleon.com/keepgoing/ Stephen Pressfield - The Artist’s Journey https://stevenpressfield.com/books/the-artists-journey/ Uri Shulevitz - Writing With Pictures https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Pictures-Write-Illustrate-Childrens/dp/0823059359 James P. Carse - Finite and Infinite Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_and_Infinite_Games Simon Sinek - The Infinite Game https://simonsinek.com/books/the-infinite-game/ Sufjan Stevens https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/sufjan-stevens-on-songwriting-collaboration-and-the-myth-of-the-tortured-artist/ Brian McDonald https://writeinvisibleink.com Ira Glass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Glass Colin Rigsby https://www.instagram.com/vesperteen/?hl=en Clairo - Charm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charm_(Clairo_album)

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0:00.0	What do you
0:01.0	On the creative journey, it's easy to get lost, but don't worry, you'll lift off.
0:10.0	Sometimes you just need a creative PEPTuck.
0:19.0	What do you do when things dramatically change and there's not enough work to go around or you hit a slow patch or a rough patch and the scene is different and things just are not working on the outside? Things are slowing. There's no opportunities.
0:42.1	There doesn't feel like there's enough jobs to go around. What do you do? In this episode, I'm going
0:49.2	to share a game-changing shift that allows you to take control of your creativity and keep going even
0:58.3	when others have taken the ball and gone home. It's a way to rise up above external forces
1:05.3	and keep your creative discipline strong. At the end of this episode, I'm going to share an exercise
1:14.1	called Rules of the Game that helped me find a well of creative joy that I can access
1:21.5	whether anybody else is giving me permission to create or not.
1:33.0	This is episode two in the grounding series on this podcast, Creative Pep Talk.
1:39.9	If you like what you hear, you can go back and listen to episode 486 and listen to the first episode of the series, but they are all designed to work as standalone as well. So you're
1:46.4	welcome to just tune into this one. For now, let's talk about the game changing shift that
1:54.1	changed my creative perspective forever.
2:12.9	I'm a believer in the idea of dressing for the job you want, not the job you have.
2:18.5	And I have applied this to my creative practice too, which means if you want professional results, you need to present online like a pro.
2:21.1	And that means going beyond social media and having a professional website that reflects your
2:27.3	style and looks legit.
2:29.7	I rebuilt my site this year with Squarespace's fluid engine and was so happy with how easily I could
2:35.4	build my vision without coding that when they approached me to support the show, I jumped at the
2:41.0	chance because I love and use this product. So go check it out Squarespace.com slash pep talk
2:47.6	to test it out for yourself. And when you're ready to launch your site, use promo code PEP Talk, all one word, all caps for 10% off your first purchase.
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