Atomic Habits for Freelancers: Growing Your Snowball

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 168

Welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, where our mission is to help you turn your creative passions into a stable, reliable income. If you're in audio, video, design, photography, or really any other creative field, and you just want to learn from other successful creatives, you're in the right place. Welcome back to another episode of the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood. I'm here with my big, bald, beautiful black shirted coat. You stopped wearing purple shirts, so I can't even do the shirt.

Christopher J. Graham (0:30)

I'm working on it.

Brian Hood (0:32)

Christopher J. Graham, this is our co-host today. How are you doing today, my dude?

Christopher J. Graham (0:35)

I'm doing great, man. You know, I got a lot going on. We talked about this a little bit on the last episode. I've been hanging out down at the state house and working on changing laws, and I got a dog.

Brian Hood (0:46)

Dude, okay, so important stuff. I'm not going to gloss over all this stuff, but we have talked about in the podcast. And you also, by the way, for anyone who hasn't listened to the Creativity and Mental Health Podcast, Chris talks to that entire saga on that podcast. So go download, subscribe to that podcast.

But where my heart is right in this moment is this little precious bundle of joy sitting behind you right now.

Introduce him to the world watching on YouTube. And by the way, if you're listening to this podcast, an audio form right now, this is your chance to actually get onto YouTube. So go to 6figurecreative.com/youtube, and actually watch this video on YouTube. So you can see Buster. This is Chris's new dog, Buster. And I love him because he's not a cat. That's the best feature about him.

Christopher J. Graham (1:28)

So crazy story Buster is this article, this thing we brought up before, it came out on a Wednesday online first.

And I like read it and it was a lot of feelings. And then I accidentally locked myself out of my apartment building.

Brian Hood (1:44)

When it rains, it pours, dude.

Christopher J. Graham (1:45)

Yeah, yeah. So when it rains, it pours. So I'm just sitting there with my kids and we're like waiting for someone to open the door. And my kids are like, dude, there's a dog in there.

And so the dog is just sitting on the stairs staring at us, which is weird because the dog by itself, like in the hallway of an apartment building is not a normal thing. And someone lets us in and we like go and see the dog. And it's like love at first sight.

And I'm thinking like, okay, there's a lot going on in my life right now. Sometimes I've heard these stories about how a dog, oh, he's rubbing his junk on the floor.

Brian Hood (2:18)

I see that.

Christopher J. Graham (2:20)

Good old dog.

Brian Hood (2:21)

But yeah.

Love him. Buster, God bless Buster.

Christopher J. Graham (2:24)

A dog finds you. So I've heard. So I'm hanging out with this dog. We figure out who its owner is, and they get in a conversation with the owner. And the owner's like, yeah, you know, my wife is allergic to it since she had kids. It was the weirdest thing. Tried having kids and it's, you know, she can't touch him anymore. She breaks out.

So I'm like, kid, I'll take it.

And it was awesome, man. Like it's been really cool. And he has really helped me form good habits in the morning because if I don't like do the right things, have the right habits in the morning, I get some poo poo on my floor.

Brian Hood (3:00)

And it's a forcing function.

Christopher J. Graham (3:01)

Yeah. Yeah. So it's been a really interesting experience to start to develop more of a routine than I've had in the past.

You're like, Hey, did you, okay. You're getting ready to go to bed. Probably take the dog out. Okay. You just woke up. Probably take the dog out.

You're watching TV, probably call the dog. So he'll snuggle with you while you watch TV.

Brian Hood (3:20)

I love that you just find a dog in an apartment hallway, which I'm glad you found the owner. Cause I was like, Chris, did you just take a dog from the apartment and call it your own and not talk to anybody? Cause it was probably somebody's dog. But I love that you found the owner. And the owner's like, yeah, it does sound like something. That's why I was worried when he started telling the story. The owner's like, listens to this podcast and is going to sue you now.