526: The courage to walk away
Today's pep talk is a massive permission slip that you don't have to spend your days doing things you're good at but don't enjoy!
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If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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525: Let's win Monday!
We're kicking off this week with a challenge that will give you a confidence boost AND more brain space.
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524: You DO have a superpower (yes, you!)
If you've been listening to this week's episodes about having a superpower and zone of genius and you don't think you have one, think again!
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523: You may be quick for a reason
If you've ever discounted something you've done because you did it too fast, this one's for you!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very, very happy Thursday to you. So Part of what we're doing this week on The Daily Pep is we are really diving into figuring out your superpowers and your zone of genius. We kicked off yesterday by diving into how the things that come easy to you may not come easy to other people, And that can be a huge clue when it comes to figuring out your zone of genius. And today, I want to give you a pep Talk around the things that you can do quite quickly. So behind the scenes, I have set myself a bit of a 3 day challenge. Last week, I ran the Fuck the Cobwebs workshop. And as part of the prep for that, I came up with 20 creative ways to battle your inner dream shitter. And it was all laid out on my whiteboard, and I thought, this would make a great ebook.
I could expand on the different areas, theme things together, Really go into the theory, make it nice and practical, and it probably wouldn't take a huge amount of time. So in the spirit of experimenting and finishing things And just being me, I thought, right, 3 days, that's what I'm gonna give myself to see if I can get this done. And I've noticed something really curious while writing it, And I've noticed it before, and I think you may have too. As I'm doing it, it's coming together pretty quickly. Going back to yesterday's episode, it doesn't feel like a particularly mammoth task. But the fact that it's coming easy And the fact that it is coming together really quickly is making me seriously doubt myself. It is making me wonder if there's anything of Value there, and it's bringing up all these questions. But here's what I know to be true and is something that I tell other people all the time.
Things that come quickly to you are because you've put the work in. By the time we come to sit down to do projects, Sometimes they automatically go a bit quicker because we have been thinking about them for a long time. They are things that have been bouncing around our heads And I've been percolating for quite some time so that when it comes to actually doing them, and obviously, this depends on the medium that you're doing it in, It's kind of a case of downloading your brain to the page. You've done a lot of the heavy lifting. You've done a lot of the thinking, and it's just about getting it out of there. Yet when we do get it out of our brain, exactly like I'm sharing with you now about my own experiences, We really start to doubt ourselves. We think that we must be some kind of fraud or and I know this is a big one. We think we're doing something wrong.
But today, I'm really calling bullshit on that both for me and for you. It reminds me a bit of the stuff we See on Instagram and TikTok around makers talking about how, yeah, they may be able to do things quite quickly or make it look really easy, But what you don't see is all of the toil and all of the hours it took to get there and all the things that come before it. So here's just both embracing that if you are doing something quickly and if it feels like it comes easy to you, there is probably a reason You have worked for it, and you are not doing anything wrong. A big theme here on The Daily PEP is keeping going, And we know that can be really tough. So when it comes to times when we feel like we're in the flow and things are just happening, And let's just try to enjoy it because we have earned it. Not everything has to feel like a battle. We get to actually enjoy our work, and imagine if we could embrace that and really enjoy it Rather than questioning it to begin with, I look forward to being back with you bright and early tomorrow morning. And for now, I've got a shit tonne of writing to go and do. So I'm gonna go do that, and I'm gonna enjoy it. And I will see you later.
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522: Don't dismiss the things that come easily
There is so much magic in the things that come easily to us, and today we're debunking the myth that all good things have to be hard and painful.
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521: The ghosts of projects past
If you've ever felt shame about going back to projects that have been abandoned for a while, this one's for you!
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520: Austin Kleon gives us a pep talk!
Today we have a very special episode as NY Times Bestselling author Austin Kleon gives us a pep talk to kickstart our week!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Monday to you. This Monday, we have a fabulous special episode as today's Daily Peppers is coming to us courtesy from the this phenomenal Austin Kleon. Austin describes himself as a writer who draws, and he is currently celebrating the ten year anniversary of his book, Steal Like an Artist. He is a huge role model for me.
I am so excited I got to chat with him. The full episode is now live on the daily pep sister podcast called courage makers. And during our conversation, I asked Austin what he would say if he had to give a pep talk, and I'm sharing his answer for today's episode. So I'll let Austin take it away.
“Think about what made you feel alive when you were, like, eight or nine or 10, and what does that energy feel like? And is there a way you can go about your work that way? Because one of the joys of becoming a parent for me is, you know, kids will suck your energy out and and ruin your life and, you know, take all your interrupt you and and take a lot of juice. But one of the real joys is you get to watch an unfettered raw creative being go about their business. And so I just think the most important thing I would say to people is genuine play. How can you make your work like play? Yeah. That's it. How do you make work like play? How do you make it the the the your hands in clay in kindergarten? You smell the Play Doh. You know? Or, like, how is it, like, gluing you get the glue on your fingers and you peel it off. You know? Just those memories of what it was like to be little and make little crafty things and play and run around and create things out of Legos. How can you get that spirit into your work? Because if you can really find that and how you can make that happen, you can show up every day, and it's no skin off your back, really.”
So that, my friends, is Austin Kleon. If you haven't checked out his fabulous work, please do. I've put more about him in the show notes. And we had a seriously good chat about owning your weirdness, why living a boring life can be a brilliant way to get work done, and also some great stuff about imposter syndrome and how we really show up to get the work done. You can listen to that on The Couragemakers, and I cannot wait to be back with you bright and early tomorrow morning.
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519: Do what makes you feel good
In today's episode we explore doing and finding what makes us feel good, and I've got a challenge for you for the weekend!
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518: Use your good ideas!
If you ever feel like you've got too many ideas with too little time, or too little time to have a lot of good ideas - this episode's for you.
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517: A sassy one about your comfort zone
Sassy Meg's back! Today we're diving into myths about our comfort zones, and talking about how we can actually get scary stuff done.
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516: Don't believe your inner critic
Today's episode is a reminder that while your inner critic may have same voice as you, it's not you.
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515: You know what to do
We're kicking off the week with a reminder that you know you best, and you know what to do.
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514: You ARE good at habits
If you are convinced you just can't do habits, or consistency isn't your thing, today I'm compassionately proving otherwise!
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513: Making habits work for YOU
When it comes to building a life you love, it's all about building what you want versus what you think you should want.
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512: Habits + Yak Shaving
On today's episode we're looking at the work we need to do before creating sustainable habits, and exploring the unhelpful stories our inner critic often has us believe.
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511: Three truths about rebel habits
This week we're diving into the world of habits, and kicking off with 3 unconventional truths about creating flexible habits.
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510: Start a curiosity list
Most of us keep a done-list, or to-do-list, but in today's episode we explore an important other one - the curiosity list.
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504: Here's to you!
On today's episode we're celebrating the magic between the milestones, and the power of showing up.
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503: In praise of slow progress and imperfect action
If you feel like you're slogging your guts out, and things aren't improving - this episode's for you.
Episode transcript:
Good morning Daily Peppers and a very happy Thursday to you. This week, we are celebrating into over 500 episodes of the daily pep. And today, we are diving into everything related to getting better at things and improving at things. So if you feel like you are slugging your guts out and not much is happening or you're not seeing a huge amount of improvement or you're not feeling hugely motivated, this one is for you. Now back when I started the daily pep, I had this vision of just being able to sit down at my microphone and being able to shoot the ship. I remembered, daily personal development podcast I used to listen to when I was about fifteen, and how I loved that he was just able to tell stories, and it all just felt so natural. I remember thinking that that is exactly where I want to get to with the daily pep. I want to get to the fact that I can just walk in, get myself sorted, and just shoot the shit straight away. No edits, and it would roll off my tongue easily. Now yesterday, we really started to pull the curtain back. Today, the curtain is fully open. because I wanna share with you what is actually being like behind the scenes.
So I would say that I started off maybe the first 30 episodes of the daily pep. Completely and utterly scripted. I pretty much wrote down what I would say word for word, And there were still so many takes and so many stops and starts. I would trip over words regularly, I would get completely befuddled on so many different words, but to the outside ear, it probably wasn't even noticeable. A bit like you probably haven't noticed as you listen to this, that just for this episode, I've just stopped and counted, we are already on 13 separate bits. where I've had to break or I've had to redo because my list has come out in full force, or I rambled, and there was no point or the bus pulled up outside and got really loud. So I had this idea that one day I would just be able to record in one continuous take And my dream was that one day I could get to a point where I wasn't scripted because let me tell you doing a daily podcast where you write everything that you're gonna say out beforehand takes no enough three times the amount of time. especially if like me, you are prone to stumbling over your words, or you start reading something that doesn't make sense and you have to go back, and how long that took. Now I would say it was a couple of months in that I was able to record an episode where I'd got a bit of a looser struck in terms of I have maybe a couple of paragraphs and some bullet points to expand on, and that felt pretty fucking good And then fast forward to nearly 2 years later, I can have one word written down in a piece of paper. And I can turn the microphone on, and I can pretty much go for it But there will still be lots of stops and start, so it would definitely time to go off on a tangent and redo. But, generally, I'm happy with my process. But the reason I'm really laboring this point is that I think when it comes to making progress on things, We expect that when we get to the next level, there's almost gonna be fanfare or there will be this really obvious point where we realize we have leveled up or we've got to the next checkpoint in the game, but it doesn't happen. Instead, what happens is that one day you wake up and realize it wasn't as hard as it was a couple of months ago. It all happens very, very quietly. I imagine if you're a runner, which I'm absolutely not, so I may, well, butcher this, Maybe one day you realize that you can run a longer distance without getting out of breath. Or maybe one day you realize that you're actually looking forward to your run rather than forcing yourself to do it. But I think what with school and how we've grown up and how we see other people accomplish things, We assume that there will be telltale signs we have made massive progress, and we wait for those things and they don't happen, and it can be really heartening. And like I was just saying about going for run or how I was sharing about me, being able to do this totally unscripted, It wasn't a case of the first day I did it. I was like, holy shit. I've made it. Holy shit. I've done it. I didn't even notice. It took quite a long time after to figure out that that was even a thing.
And also by time, it was less of a celebration and more of a, oh, that's cool. So if you're not feeling particularly motivated by habit you've been building on, or some area in your life, which you feel like you should be further ahead, or you don't feel like you're making as much progress as you'd to be. Maybe consider the fact that you have upleveled, but you haven't even noticed. And going back to the goal or the vision you had when you started it, sometimes it takes doing the thing to realize that the gold or the vision you had beforehand wasn't even necessarily relevant, or it doesn't apply for you. For example, for me, I don't think that there's ever gonna be a time where I can just come in here, sit down with you, and record an entire episode in one take. No matter how hard I work at this, there is always going to be some kind of interruption, I'm always gonna get lost on some kind of tangent or stumble over my words or say something that doesn't make sense. or say something that sounds really cringy that I immediately take out, but that's okay. Is there part of me that would still absolutely love to do that? Back. Yes. Of course, there is. But it doesn't feel half as important as I thought it was when I started.
What means absolutely the world to me now is that I can come in and record an episode and not worry too much about it. not have to script everything, not have to censor myself. And just that it's become something that I can rock up at and do it as easily as I do a lot of other things like tie my shoelaces. And believe me, I never ever, ever would have believed that would be the case. And don't get me wrong, there are still times where It feels like I'm putting on the world's tightest pair of shoes and the laces are all knotted, and it's a bit of a shit show. and embrace the fact that shit shows happen, and that's okay.
What you start off thinking is really important may become a whole lot less important further down the line. And when you've been doing something for a while or when something starts to feel more integrated into your life, the things that you will recognize as really important and hold dear to your heart often the things that you didn't even really think about before you got started because you didn't have that contact and you didn't have that understanding and that practice when you were first starting out because how could you? So if you are feeling demotivated, a bit disheartened on something that you've been working at for a while, or you're wondering why you're not further ahead. Consider the fact that you might actually be far far further ahead than you think you are. And remember that your priorities and what's important might change, your vision might change, And you absolutely reserve the right to change your mind to give up to whatever at any time. So here's to knowing that practice does not make perfect. Here's to knowing that milestones often don't come with a fanfare.
And here's to know in the often the reward for doing something, often comes in the form of doing it itself. I will see you tomorrow.
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502: Keep chipping away
On today's episode, we look at the importance of chipping away at things.
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A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own dreamshitter, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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