Failure, Motivation, And What To Do When You Want To Give Up | With Andy J. Pizza

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This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 197

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Welcome back to another episode of the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I am your host, and I am back fresh from my vacation to Cancun. And I'm really, really refreshed. I don't know about anyone else listening right now, but if I go too long without a vacation, like a real relaxation vacation, then I get really stressed out, and I find myself really struggling with creativity. I can't get things done at a high enough level to make me happy, which makes me even more frustrated, which makes me more apt to make mistakes and not be good at what I do. And so I get more frustrated myself. And it's like this downward spiral. And when I go on trips like this, like my wife and I spent two weeks in Cancun, we only had one day of adventure where we visited, I think, one of the seven wonders of the world, I think Chit Sanitza, if I'm saying that right, which is like these cool Mayan ruins, pyramid things, and Yucatan Peninsula.

But the rest of the time, we just laid by the pool at the JW Marriott in Cancun. Every other night, we'd walk to a fancy dinner along the hotel strip. Most of the nights, or the other nights we would, we'd get room service, or we would eat at one of the hotel restaurants. But most of the time we spent by the pool and read a lot, and I feel so recharged.

So ready to get back to things and just get back at it. We had one snafu, the JetBlue, this is my public shaming of JetBlue, emailed us at 1 a.m. while we were sleeping, the day we were supposed to leave, saying our flight was canceled. So we were just stranded in Cancun. So I had to scramble to book last minute flights, same day, Delta came and saved the day. And so I'm back safe and sound, happy, tan, a little bit fatter than when I left because we ate terribly and ready to get back at this today. So speaking of today, the podcast for this week, I am pulling from the backlogs. I like to do this from time to time on what I think is a gem from this podcast. This is one that has set in the archives of our vault for almost three years now.

I don't think anyone who regularly listens to this podcast has heard this episode recently. And so I think this needs to come up now. This is our interview that we did on episode 67 with Andy J. Pizza, where we talked about motivation.

How to get ourselves motivated. And I think after the last two years we've been through as a community with 2020, 2021, all of the toll that took on us as creatives, I think it's really easy to lose our way as far as motivation. Like we can meander through these like dark valleys for too long without the eye on the bigger picture of what we should be doing. And so we lose motivation and either flail around and get nothing done that we wanted to actually accomplish, which I feel like is kind of what I've done the last year or so, or we lose motivation and just give up and go on to something else that we ultimately doesn't fulfill us either. So I think this interview that I recently re-listened to was fascinating because Andy J. Pizza is such a brilliant guy.

We really, like, if you don't already listen to the Creative Pep Talk podcast, you're missing out. Andy is like the end to our Yang or whatever the phrasing is there. I'm an ignorant Southern boy. But basically like where we're very tactical, very much like by the numbers, very much like do this and then do this. Andy's very much in touch with the emotions side. And we talk about that a little bit on the intro of this podcast. But like, this is just something that this podcast has never really had is like the feelsy side of things. And like, and before you turn this off, because we have so many like analytical left brain people that are like really pushed off by that, give this episode a chance because man, I had so many ah-has recently when I re-listened to this episode that made my brain like do this whole thing where I'm like reassessing everything that I'm doing right now and how I'm doing it.