{"id":147642,"date":"2019-06-06T20:38:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T03:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=147642"},"modified":"2019-06-06T20:45:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T03:45:48","slug":"practical-creative-productivity-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/practical-creative-productivity-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Creative Productivity Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Advice based on what works for me \u00e2\u20ac\u201d hope these can help you too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

1. No genre <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t categorize yourself, nor put any creative limits on yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t become the prisoner of a genre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t label yourself as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153photographer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vlogger\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, or any other silly category. Allow yourself free reign to create ANY form of art you desire! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example here are some fun sketches I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been making on iPhone and the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Zen brush 2\u00e2\u20ac\u009d app:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. Powerlift<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A very simple tip:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you engage in \u00e2\u20ac\u01531 rep max\u00e2\u20ac\u009d type of weight lifting, you will start to spontaneously come up with many creative ideas during your lifting sessions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I genuinely believe that all photographers, artists, thinkers, philosophers, and individuals will benefit from deadlifting and powerlifting \u00e2\u20ac\u201d regardless of age, gender, physical body state, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to inspire your creative mind, you must first motivate, move, and inspire your body. Powerlifting seems to be one of the best creativity and life hacks I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve discovered so far!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Publish as you create <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very into this notion of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153creative steaming\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. There is no finality with your creative art works; it is all a stream! The goal isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to make one final thing, the goal is to never stop iterating, never stop creating, and to never stop experimenting and improving! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example nowadays as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing blog posts, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait until the very end before publishing it. Instead, I will start writing, and click \u00e2\u20ac\u0153publish\u00e2\u20ac\u009dwhen I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m only 20% finished. And as I keep writing and adding information and images to the blog post, I just keep clicking \u00e2\u20ac\u0153update\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This has been one of the most effective ways for me to overcome the fear of publishing<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d to produce and publish more, with less fear and hesitation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Cold brew or more black coffee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Advice based on what works for me \u00e2\u20ac\u201d hope these can help you too:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/FFB5E7AC-02D5-4457-9ECD-5D5EA0C09641.jpeg?fit=1242%2C577&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147642"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147654,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147642\/revisions\/147654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}