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Create art podcast,
commentary, building blocks.

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Hello friend.

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This is Timothy Kim O'Brien, your head
instigator for create art podcast, where

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I use my over 30 years of experience
in the arts and educational world

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to help you tame your inner critic
and create more than you consume.

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So this year, what I've decided
to do is these episodes.

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About making fun a habit.

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And that's from the making fun a
habit series and book by Michael

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Brennan, who I actually interviewed
on find a podcast about, and if you

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want to find that interview, just go
to find a podcast about dot X, Y, Z.

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He runs a podcast called creative chats,
and it's a great podcast to listen to.

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If you need that little extra boost
of creativity in your life, but the

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making fun, I have it series is a
book that he wrote and it's 30 days

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to add fun to your creative practice.

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So what I decided to do is to
take each day in that workbook

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and make an episode out of it.

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Now, when you get that book and
I have the link in my show notes.

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What you get in there is you have
insights on how to, you know, use

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his ideas for your creative practice.

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And each chapter is broken up with
a short story, some questions to

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ponder, action items, and tips.

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This episode, we're going to be
talking about building blocks.

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Now I know for me, I like
to always go back to basics.

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And when I saw building blocks, I
immediately thought, Hey, what are

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my basic things for creativity?

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What does that mean to me?

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And so that's what this episode is going
to be all about is getting back to those

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basics and figuring out, you know, what,
why creating is fun and why do I do it?

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So the first question that Mike
asks us is why do you enjoy what

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do you enjoy creating and why?

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So it really depends on what part
of my life we're talking about.

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In my beginning artistic
journey, it was poetry.

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And I loved writing poetry and performing
poetry in front of an audience.

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And that's where I was really at, but.

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I also really liked
theater in high school.

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I did a lot of theater shows and did
that through college and, and whatnot.

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And you know, for the most part
I was backstage and I got a

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few chances to step on stage.

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I was the, usually I was the big
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and was at the butt of the jokes.

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But you know, like a trucker or
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But.

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I think for me, I enjoy taking nothing,
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something that is going to be forever.

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Now for the past, oh, I don't know, since
2006, I've been enjoying podcasting.

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And through podcasting, I can,
you know, share my story, share my

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experiences my trials and tribulations,
and I can encourage you to create

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the art that you want to create.

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And if you're not creating art, you don't
give you that little you know, like I

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always say in the beginning that head,
I'm the head instigator here podcast.

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So I want to make sure that
you're creating, because it

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provides a lot of joy in my life.

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When I create something
out of nothing, nothing.

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So that's what I enjoy creating.

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And that's pretty much
why I enjoy creating.

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The next question is what
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regular routine of creating?

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Now for me, I don't really
have a regular routine.

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I just kind of I have a full time job.

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I do this podcasting thing.

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I'm a dad, I'm a husband.

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I'm, I wear a lot of different hats.

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So a regular routine is something
that's kind of tough for me.

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And I even joined up
with Mike's making fun.

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I have the creative chats.

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Facebook group that I pay a little
bit to each month and get ideas and,

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you know, share community with other
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could be considered a regular routine.

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I try to comment there, I try
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that I'm on, like pod match.

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For podcasters you know, try to give
encouragement that way, but I don't

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have a regular routine where I'll sit
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and create usually Sunday mornings.

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I do episodes usually record
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So I guess that could be
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You know, once a week I'll sit down here
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of episodes and and just enjoy life.

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But I, I usually like to do
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It's not a great way of doing it.

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I'll tell you that right now.

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But what I would like is to be
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of go from this time to this time.

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You know, nobody disturbed me.

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I'm just going to go ahead and
create something and and then

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be on with the rest of my day.

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So for me, that would look
like a regular routine for me.

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I don't know what it is for you, but if
that's something that, you know, you're

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looking into, you can start it up at any
time you want, you know, and if you need

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a accountability partner, let me know.

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I'd be happy to be your
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All right.

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The last question is what are
your objections and obstacles

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and how can you solve these?

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So I don't really have any objections
to creating, but the obstacles is, you

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know, the everyday minutiae of things
that happen in my life, whether it be

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work meetings or doing something for
work or playing with my kids or being

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a good husband you know, cleaning up
the yard, all that kind of good stuff.

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So that's my obstacles and one of the
things that I'm learning to do for

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myself is be a little bit kinder to
myself and that it, that would be, you

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know, to carve out that time and just
go, Hey, listen, I'm going to do this

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and maybe it's when work is a little
bit slow, then I can go ahead and create

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kind of like what I'm doing today.

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But whatever that looks like
for you, Hey, by all means, feel

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free to email me and let me know.

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You can email me at Timothy
at create art podcast.

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com.

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And I can share that with everybody
else and we can help each other out.

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So that's how you can solve the, that's
how I'm going to try to solve this.

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So I want to know what you're doing
to make that happen for yourself.

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So the next thing up is action items.

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And the first action item is
start a daily creativity journal.

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Well, for me, I got to start creating
daily in order for me to do the journal,

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but I think that's a great idea.

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You know, it, it'll be.

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And accountability partner for myself.

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So maybe, you know, just grabbing a
journal, I Lord knows I have enough

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journals around this house, or I
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the cell phone, the cell phone I'm
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many apps out there where you can do.

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You don't even have to write
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You just speak into your phone and I'll
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So starting that creative journal might
be just the thing to help you, especially

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if you don't have anybody around you
that is really into the arts, but you're

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into the arts, that might be a great
thing for you to go ahead and try.

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The next thing is take
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Now I just came back from a conference
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And I'm going to go up to another one.

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Well, I did the empowered podcast
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Carolina, back in June, and I'm going
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And that'll be a podcast movement.

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And by the time this episode
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a week or two away from that.

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So that's something that I like to do.

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I like, I do like to take classes
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good, vibrant art scene, there's going
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So you don't have to go it on your own.

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And it's a great way to learn.

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To connect with the people in your
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may have more experience than you.

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So give that a shot for yourself.

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The next thing is number three of the
action items is join a creative community.

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While you can do that by taking that
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of online communities with Facebook,
Twitter, or X tick tock, even Instagram.

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There's a lot of communities
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Probably there's not have
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In the past as there is today, so we're
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community to make those connections with
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group, definitely check that out for
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reason I got serious about podcasting
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I've been doing podcasting seriously
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I joined a meetup group.

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So if there's a meetup group in your area
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it a shot for yourself, make it happen.

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And you never know, you
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I know I did with Kyle Bondo.

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The next thing up is number four set
a creativity challenge for yourself.

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Now you, if you've heard this podcast
before, which, you know, many of you

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have, I do two challenges every year
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and national novel writing months.

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Poetry writing month.

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They give you 30 prompts in 30
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national novel writing month, write
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So that's something that I do.

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So I'm checking off some boxes
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But those are free things that you can do.

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It doesn't cost anything.

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And there are other challenges
for sketching making music.

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24 hour theater shows or movies.

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There's things for sketching
inktober is out there as well.

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So whatever it is, there's
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Let me know what challenge
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The next thing up is experimenting
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I, you've heard me in the past that I
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I had Tia sunshine on many episodes ago.

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And she's a watercolor person.

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So, and I've always had
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I went and got some watercolor pencils.

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And that's, that's as close as I've gotten
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got a few books that just came in the mail
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So I'm going to try
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And we'll put some stuff up on
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show you what I've been doing.

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And I think it's really great
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get out of your comfort zone.

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And the last thing that he
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be afraid to share your work.

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You know, you can email me
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If that, if you feel comfortable
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would love to take a look at it.

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And the thing of it is, is
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your arm for sharing your work.

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We're so afraid of other
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that it stops our creativity.

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And You know, one of my big things
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because, you know, unless that, if that
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stop the inner critic, but if that critic
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Conversely, a lot of times we're
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Go out there, put it out
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I think you're going
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I mean, I do it with this show and
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doing this podcast have been.

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Phenomenal.

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I've had past guests come back at me
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I got that going on.

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And I'm always excited to hear
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So share your work because if you don't
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it and nobody's going to know about it.

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And we're all going to miss out for that.

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All right.

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We're going to jump into
the tips that Mike gives us.

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First thing is find something
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Well, for me, my first love is poetry.

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I really like writing poetry and you
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year for me and I'm looking at doing
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of national poetry writing months.

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And I was just thinking the other
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going to do that and I want to do
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too but they're all unfinished, so.

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You know, that a writing is
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So that's something that I definitely want
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So that's what I enjoy creating.

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What is it that you enjoy creating?

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And that's where you should start.

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The next tip number two is set aside
set aside some time each day to create.

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Yes, Mike, I will do that.

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I will set aside time to create
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Make it an appointment, you know, make
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this hour or this 15 minutes or this
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do that meeting for yourself because
at the end of every episode I say make

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art for somebody you love yourself.

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That's part of it.

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You know, I was just having a conversation
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therapist and nothing wrong with that.

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for myself and doing things for myself.

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And he said, you don't need
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You should do something for you
that, you know, gives you energy

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that gives you a strength and
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So this is a challenge to me.

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This is a challenge to you.

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So I decided sometime each day to create.

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And I'm going to make that
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I will set time to create.

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Let me know what you're doing.

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Are you going to set 15
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three hours, whatever it is.

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There is no minimum.

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There's no maximum.

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Just set aside that time to create.

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3 is don't be afraid to experiment.

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I love to experiment.

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Some of the best things that I've
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Case in point, I did string
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I saw a video on it and I was like,
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And I did a whole series
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I've got about four of them.

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that I'm looking at right
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man, those are really cool.

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that has said that when I had an actual
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there and people would walk in and go,
wow, where did you get that from him?

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paint and they really loved it.

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And I probably could have sold
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And but you never know
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Sometimes our quote unquote mistakes
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Give it a shot for yourself.

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Number four is don't
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And I eat it.

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One of my podcast friends Chris Chris
misnows has a book called starting ugly.

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Definitely you should check out that book
and it's all about, you know, podcasting

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of course, but the thing of it is, is
it's all about just getting out there.

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And then do iterations, you know,
keep on going back to it and

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improving it here, improving it there.

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Just go out there and start something.

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It does not have to be a Rembrandt or
Michelangelo or anything like that.

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It doesn't have to be a John Coltrane.

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Just go out there and try some stuff
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and better and better with it.

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You don't need to be
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Number five is share your
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Whether you do that on a red bubble sites
where you're putting your artwork out

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there for people to download podcasting
like I'm doing here with you today putting

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it on your social media, put it out
there for others to take a look at it.

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It's an act of bravery and I
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but I think you can do it.

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I think you want to do it.

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Otherwise, why would you listen to
this podcast and have me, you know, bug

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you every, every couple of weeks about
creating something, share that creation

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with others, you can share it with me.

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If you don't want to share it with
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You can get me at Timothy
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com.

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Now the last tip tip number six is
track and measure what you create.

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And that's a good way to develop a
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artist's resume for yourself.

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I am bad at this, so that is something
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But you know, when I was helping
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always say, Hey, have a work diary,
you know, for different tasks that you

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do, because I would build a resume for
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And a lot of them didn't, you
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And I said, well, we're Starting today,
anything that you do for your job, you're

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going to write down what you did as
long as it, you know, isn't, you know,

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betraying you know, secrets for the
government or anything like that, but

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track it down and then take a look at it
from time to time and, you know, be amazed

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at everything that you have done because
you probably done more than you realize.

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And even if it's just, you know, a
painting a month or a painting a year

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or a novel a year, Most people don't
do that, so you're already beating out

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most people, so track it, measure it.

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You know, you start off with something
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you take a class and you get better
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Don't throw away the ugly stuff.

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Keep the ugly stuff and watch
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motivate you to keep on creating.

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And podcast is all about.

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Okay.

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Well, we've reached the
end of this episode.

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First and foremost, I want to thank
you for taking a listen to it.

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It's been a pleasure for me to
go ahead and share this with you.

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It helps me with my creativity.

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It gives me ideas and I hope
it gives you ideas as well.

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Now, if you'd like to go ahead and
share this podcast, I'm not going to

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bite your fingers off for doing that.

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Feel free to share it with a friend.

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And if you want to reach out to me with
any comments, if you'd like to be a

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guest on the show or anything like that.

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Email timothy@koreanartpodcast.com and
I'd love to hear about your journey

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and what you're working on now.

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I do wanna let you know
that I run another podcast.

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It's called Find a Podcast about.

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You can find that at find a podcast
about.xyz, and that's where I help you

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find your next binge wor binge worthy
podcast and outsmart the algorithm.

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Find it at Find a Podcast about.xyz.

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And I'll see you over there.

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All right.

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It's that time in the episode
where I go ahead and let you

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continue on with your day.

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I'm going to continue on with mine.

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Cause obviously I need to start up
a creative journal and set aside

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some time to do some creativity,
which, you know, I'll put this

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episode in that journal for this day.

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What are you going to do?

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Are you going to you know, you
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this podcast in your journal.

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I'm just saying, do that for yourself.

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Let's go ahead and tackle that day.

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Tame that inner critic and
create more than you consume.

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Go out there and make some art
for somebody you love yourself.

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I'll talk to you next time.