Deadlines…
I’m gonna be honest with you now, I haven’t been as active as I wish I could be. Now I can sit and give excuses but I don’t think you really care to read that. Coming away from it, I have learned some things about myself. I learned the importance of getting a full nights rest, and waking up promptly. I swear every morning I kick myself for hitting that snooze button, and it only gets harder to find the energy to stand up and seize the day. Most importantly, I learned the importance of a deadline…
If you’re like me, an undiagnosed and unmedicated individual with ADHD, you struggle keeping your thoughts all on the same thing for extended periods of time. Your brain might bounce from a project to a phone notification. From there you might get thirsty and want to get up for a drink of water. As you are on your water side quest, you notice your counter top is messy and you feel inspired to clean it, oh and there are also boxes on the floor from Amazon so you might as well break those down too. Then the floor has crumbs and dirt in it so you need to vacuum, but then the vacuum is full and you empty it into a full trash can and you need to take that out too and then … what happened to your project?
This is why I implement deadlines and timers. When I sit down to perform any creative task, it is a deeply sacred and spiritual moment in time. I must treat it as such, as a ritual, if it please m’lord. Silence all notifications and leave my phone in the other room. It is now time to set the timer and dedicate all the allotted time to my project. Allow nothing to interfere with this time.
Doing this has had a profound impact on my creative ability. I find myself enjoying the process more deeply, and I don’t feel burnt out because I have limited my world to one thing. I no longer am a beam of light cast into a dozen prisms, rather a box of mirrors with a pin sized hole. I am laser focused on the single task at hand.
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If you read through this thank you! I write these to inspire other artists who are like me! I also want to let you know about my free sample pack you can get here on my site by simply providing me your email. You can provide me a burner email too because I know how having a thousand different email subscriptions can be quite burdensome. I also want to let you know I am finally releasing my Starship Odyssey: Vol. 1 on August 31st of this year (2025)! It will be packed with highly detailed synth presets for Serum 2, and .wav files for all you samplers! I am aiming to provide 50 presets, along with arp patterns, midi clips, and FX chains! Inside the .zip file I will include a video tutorial on where to drag and drop each file type so that you can use them for yourself. I’m so geared up for the release, stay tuned!