Sean Cannell (0:00)

Hey, before we jump into the show, I just wanted to take a second and say thank you for listening. I know that life is busy and you have a lot of options when it comes to the content you consume. So whether you're new here or you've been listening to the Think Media podcast for years, I just want to say thank you and I appreciate you. Okay, let's jump into the show. If you've ever had a video to film or a creative task to get done but you just felt exhausted, then this video is for you. I've personally been creating videos since 2003. I started YouTube in 2007, and since that time, I've started multiple different YouTube channels and gotten a few silver play buttons and a gold play button. I've helped thousands of creators, and I've learned a lot of lessons from success and also from personal burnout, from dealing with chronic pain, family stress, and pressure, and just trying to grow a business while also trying to grow a YouTube channel. I've learned how to create videos when you don't feel like it and when your energy is low. So in this episode, I'm answering 10 of the most frequently asked community questions when it comes to content creation and any energy and burnout and getting things done. So whether you're just starting out or you're deep in your creator grind, I believe there'll be some nuggets in this episode that will help you create from a place of consistency with less stress, more peace, and ultimately more creative impact. Welcome to the Think Media Podcast. This show is devoted to bringing you unfiltered advice for growing a profitable YouTube channel. My name is Sean Cannell, and and I'm super grateful that you're checking out this episode. Today's episode is sponsored by Magic Mind, but a little bit more about them later. Now, if you're on the audio version, I love you, but if you're on YouTube, you can skip around to the time codes and chapters of these 10 questions, kicking it off with number one. What do you do when you have a filming block scheduled but you feel totally drained? Well, the first thing I'd say is, is that it's awesome you are scheduling filming blocks because what gets scheduled gets done. And if you want something to get done, put it on your calendar. But it's a great question, because what happens when it's scheduled? But as it's approaching, you're like, this sucks. I don't feel up to this. I feel tired. Well, a couple thoughts. One, Deadlines are powerful. The nice thing about hard Deadlines is that if it has to get done, what do I do? I do it because a deadline is a deadline and deadlines unlock action. And so as a independent content creator, a lot of times you're going to have to summon self motivation because you don't actually have a hard deadline. You just have your own personal accountability to consistency. But if you do have a brand sponsorship or you have, I don't know, some kind of a client promise, or you have a business to run and bills to pay and you're dependent on your YouTube income, well, then there's a different level of motivation there because it's an actual hard deadline. The next question is, is if it's not a hard deadline, then you might reason in your own mind, what's the big deal if I don't do this now? If it's not a hard deadline for me, I do build in margin. Sometimes the right move is a nap instead of filming. I've learned that tired eyes rarely see a bright future. And so, yes, I might have a shoot day on my schedule, but if I'm going into it at an absolute place of fatigue, I mean, it's kind of like calling in sick. If you're legitimately sick, the thing you should do is rest and recover instead of work during that time block. But here's the question, and you need to be honest. Is it fatigue or is it procrastination? There's a really good book called do the Work by Steven Pressfield. Every creator should read it. And it talks about this concept of the resistance, and it's this force we feel especially as we are approaching creative work. So one of the things you have to be honest about is that if you're approaching a creative block on your calendar, you shouldn't be shocked or surprised that you're trying to talk yourself out of it or procrastinate it away or say you're not ready. That's called the resistance. And it's very normal and we all feel it. So you have to make the decision. Are you procrastinating or are you genuinely fatigued to a place where you need to rest? And if you realize it is procrastination and it is the resistance, then I have a tip for you on how you can hack your psychology. And it's this. The right reason will light a fire beneath your feet. Let me illustrate. Let me tell you a story. So my family bought a house during the big Short or right before the housing crash around 2008. And the first house we bought was on an 80, 20 ARM loan. That's a horrible loan. That means that 80% was like the one mortgage, and then you have an additional second mortgage that's 20%. Now, the house was like $225,000 or something like that at the time in Washington State. And after the housing market crashed and there was also some family troubles and health challenges and job loss and a bunch of stuff that happened. Actually, there was tenants in the house, they stopped paying all that to say is the house foreclosed? Which meant that the 80% loan foreclosed, but you were still accountable for the 20. So there is a bank that we owed money to for 20% of $225,000. So it was around 50 grand. Well, I was realizing this debt was looming over my head, and I was like, how are we going to pay that off? When are we going to pay that off? What's going to happen? And as time went on, we actually moved to Las Vegas and I took a position at a church as the director of communications. But this 50,000 or so loan was hanging over my family's head until one day I get a phone call. They call me and they go, hey, this is like SunTrust bank or whatever it is. By the way, you owe us like 50 grand. I'm like, yeah, I was aware. I was trying to forget about that. And they go, so here's the thing. If you pay us $5,000, will cancel all of the entire debt. You could pay the whole thing off if you just pay us one check, five grand. I was like, seriously? They're like, seriously? But you're gonna need to pay us within one week. So let me ask you a question. Do you think I was able to come up with that $5,000 in that one week? Answer, absolutely, yes. I'm not a person that really usually advocates for crime, but I was living in Las Vegas at the time. I realized there's a lot of people that had money on the Strip, maybe a few extra poker chips. So I went down there with a small weapon and was able to get the 5,000. I'm just kidding. I'm making a joke. But I mean, it was kind of the mentality that whatever took, I was going to come up with this $5,000. Now, I want you to imagine, if you're given, if you will, the mini opportunity of a lifetime to have a $50,000 debt that's only going to cost you $5,000 to pay off. Where there's a will, there's a way, where there is a strong enough Reason there will be a fire beneath your feet. And so when it comes to overcoming the resistance and procrastination, I think one of the things to try to hack your psychology is, is to tap into some deeper reasons than the fact that you could just put off filming to another day. What's your vision? What's the bigger purpose you're building to? Even if your videos are only getting seven views right now after seven hours of editing, do you have a vision for the passive income that will be created on the other side of consistent uploads ranking videos building your channel, do you have a vision of the doors of opportunity that will be unlocked by the consistency that you put into your YouTube channel? The key is you're going to have to hack your own psychology by giving giving yourself your own motivating reasons. Especially if your YouTube channel is a side hustle and you actually don't have a hard deadline. So find a way to create urgency because urgency creates energy. Question number two, what are your pre filming rituals and environment hacks? Couple things. One is I take a shower before I film. And even though cameras don't have smell o vision right now, I have found that my own psychology is enhanced. When I clean up, I get dressed, I put myself together, Supplements is a part of my routine. Music, having a pump up playlist to get into the vibe that I want. I often will use supplements like Magic mind, coffee and different things like that to lock in and get in my filming routine. I will clean my workspace. I have found that if I have a cluttered office, it's just destroyed from all the work I've been doing and mail that's come and all kinds of stuff that I'll turn on the music, clean up my workspace. Not only does it declutter my brain, but it also kind of helps me ramp up to actually filming. Sometimes I'll do some essential oils, something that's like breathe or peppermint that gets the breathing and air passageways going. I'll set up my lighting and different things like that that signal to my brain that it's to going go time. There's studies of creative professionals that if you have a place, a set place where you do your creative work, a routine, light a candle, purchase your journal out, turn on the song, whether that's the smells, the looks, the sights, the locations, by having a creative routine that you come back to, it actually does hack your psychology and gets you into creative mode. And so those are a few things I do. Question number three, how do you manage filming with young kids or a family at home. Well, this is gonna depend on your circumstance. But it's a great question. Perhaps in a certain season they're at school, so you might film during school. Perhaps you need to film after they have gone to bed. Perhaps you can film during nap time. There is some live streams I've done. I have a 2 year old and 4 year old now, but I actually, I did one. This is my most courageous live stream. It exists somewhere where I had the baby in a front pack and I think it was Sean Bradley. He was sleeping, I went live, he stayed asleep the whole time. I mean, risky for sure, but you know, you got to do what you got to do in this content creation world. You film batches when the family is out of the house. I mean, as soon as you become a parent, you, you learn a whole nother level of time management, right? And so if possible, can you talk to your partner, your spouse, a family member, hey, can you take the kids this day? Can you take them for a couple hours and then you lock in and you during that window of time that you have. I've learned that communication with a spouse or a partner is critical. And I understand that a lot of us are side hustling and money might be scarce, but there is a reason why some entrepreneurs will still get an office space and pay to lease a space or get a co working space or go somewhere. Because practically getting out of the house for other reasons might be really helpful to actually get things done. And that could apply to filming as well. And then, you know, I think it's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness, being resourceful with what you have today. But also considering how could you upgrade and invest as time goes on? Could you upgrade and invest in building out a studio in the garage, repurposing a room in your house, having a vision for, you know, a separate ADU that you have. I know that that's not an immediate thing, but this is the way that content creators think. They're visionaries. You're thinking about what could you build next? How could you change up your situation, build a different office, buy a new house? Stewarding the time and the resources you have today, well, will unlock the financial resources to invest in the future you want to create. But if you know me, you know I love black coffee. It's how I start my day. No cream, no sugar, just straight up focus, fuel. But here's the thing. Caffeine by itself doesn't always help me stay locked in. And what If I have too much, I get anxious, I get jittery. And what about that afternoon crash and mental fog? Well, I recently discovered something really cool that helps with this called Time Release Caffeine. For example, if you get your caffeine from something like Matcha, it actually is released slower than traditional caffeine from coffee. But there's even newer tech called nanoencapsulation that releases the caffeine even more gradually. And that's why I'm excited to tell you about the sponsor of today's Think Media podcast, Magic Mind. Now, this isn't just some random sponsor that gave us a product to talk about. This is actually a brand that I've been a super fan of for over a year. You might know that I am always looking for something to give me an edge. I'm really into nootropics and supplementation and I subscribed to Magic Mind over a year ago and consistently this has become part of my entrepreneurial business building routine and especially my content creation routine. 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Like you might have some critical meeting and it's at, you know, 10 or 11 in the morning and yet that's the morning that you get in an absolute like knockdown, drag out fight with your spouse. Like you actually maybe have something that you need to you go live or perform or something and that's the day that somebody calls you and you get bad news. Or again, you've got a day where you need to show up and perform, but you wake up and you've got low back pain and you feel super sick. And what seems to be true about life is it's not only that there's these critical moments that we need to show up and perform for, but it's also the fact that you're going to throw in these Murphy's Law events that if something bad is going to happen, it probably will and that we will find ourselves, whether it's needing to show up on camera or needing to show up for a critical meeting, oftentimes at some kind of A disadvantage and encountering things that will knock us out of the zone. I've actually spoken on stage so much and done so many events and have found that almost never am I like about to go on stage when like everything was good that morning or that day. It's like bad news is coming in, there's like a fire at work, there's like an issue at home, there's a, there's a negative text messages, 10 or like weird vibes are being shot at you. Passive aggressive text messages from whoever. It's all coming, you know, and it's like 10 minutes before you need to show up and perform. So developing the skill of being able to mentally reset is critical. A couple things that I like to do, I've learned, and I believe there's physiology behind this, that to reset your nervous system or to calm down can take 10 to 15 minutes. So if possible, I go on a walk, I gotta get out, get moving, go on a walk and let time pass. Combined with breathing, this is a huge hack. Deep breathing patterns. A lot of times as stress is increasing and the cortisol is going crazy and you're actually in the fight or you're in the argument or you're just holding the stress, you realize you've stopped breathing. So returning back to different breathing patterns, deep breathing in through the nose, out through the mouth, breathing and walking has been helpful. I have found that journaling is helpful. Writing out my thoughts, writing out my emotions, or even just reading a book, like forcing myself. My brain's all fired up, but forcing myself to read, replacing those words in my mind. Personally, Scripture is one of the best books. Reading the Bible can be really helpful and then just letting my mind reset, letting myself calm down and giving myself a chance to rest. Now, ultimately, I think this question comes down to a skill set or an attribute called resilience. We have seven core values at Think Media. One of them is resilient spirit. And resilience is how quickly can you come back to baseline. Baseline would be that place where we are able to produce from a calm, clear and focused state. But you can think about some of the things that might knock you away from baseline. It could be things that are not just negatives. It also can be positives. Sometimes you get so pumped with maybe good news and excitement, I can't focus anymore. Like, I just, I need to take the rest of the day off. That news was too good. Let's just go celebrate. You have a really high high. Well, resilience actually would tell you I'm Resilient. If I can get back to baseline quickly and from a negative standpoint, you get a weird text message, someone's firing some weird vibes at you, you get some, you know, a negative message. Can you still show up and perform from a place of clarity and confidence at baseline? Well, resilience is how quickly you get back to that place. And so those are a few of the things that I do. And if you will, ultimately, at a deeper level, this comes down to neuroscience. Your neural pathways, how your brain is conditioned, and I would think, your thinking patterns. There's a good book from Craig Groeschel called Change youe Thinking or something like that. I'll link that one up in the show notes if you want to check it out. I think it's based. It's based on the Bible and Scripture and also cognitive behavior therapy, which I do believe they call as the most significant breakthrough in psychiatry maybe in the last a hundred years. Still effective today to help people in all kinds of walks of life and different situations. So we're talking about mental mastery, mental toughness, and a skill set to not beat yourself up on. If you don't have a high level of resilience. And it does take you, you know, you get like one 15 minute conversation. You're like, I'm done. I can't even get back in the zone today. I'm gonna have to wait until tomorrow. That might be where you're at now. But let me encourage you. You can grow these skill sets and these attributes, and to have sustained creative output over the long haul, these attributes are essential. Question number five. What are your top three creator energy habits? All right, top three, this is off the cuff that I wrote down that I think are my top three. Here's number one is sleep. I don't know if you thought that was going to be what I thought, but, like, sleep. If you want a good day tomorrow, it starts the night before. And so cut. Netflix, stop scrolling. Get some real rest. But let me be honest, though. You know how they say, like, don't eat three hours before bed? Who are we kidding? I am eating right before bed. Now, I've been eating healthy lately these days. A little bit of Greek yogurt, little bit of local honey, some blueberries, delicious. But I mean that, like, I go to bed at maybe 10, 10:30. I'm eating that at like 10:25. So. Okay. And then, you know, don't. No screen time. No screen time before bed, as they would say, couple hours before bed. Well, I'll be honest, I'M sometimes on my screen while I'm eating my Greek yogurt five minutes before bed. So I would say I I have recently gotten a pair of blue light black blocking glasses. I got like a well reviewed pair off Amazon for you know, 20 bucks or something. Because there is something about your bedtime routine. And while I do make a few jokes, I have been taking this seriously. Whether that's some chamomile tea, whether that's the temperature in the room, whether that's generally trying to de stress and finding that my wind down routine. I do melatonin as well. A couple other things like you want to get good sleep because sleep is the greatest biohack. There's so many other things you could do but sleep is like the foundation. So that's number one. That's my number one creator energy habit. Number two is light, clean eating before shooting. Don't overeat, go lean, go light. I don't know about you, but I know that if I eat like a huge lunch. When I worked at this church, we used to go to this place called BJ's and it was all you can eat soup and salad. Like you don't need all you can eat at lunch on a workday. You know, like I'll take my fourth soup, sir. Thank you so much. Yes, I would like another bacon and blue cheese wedge salad number three, please. Like I would do that. And then sure enough, what's going to happen in the afternoon? Mega crash. Well, kind of the reverse is true. You get your nutrition right, you eat lean, it really can tie into your energy. And so I usually want to be in a place of kind of like ketosis even if possible when it comes to filming, really locked in with mental strength and energy. So I light eating, clean eating, not a ton of eating if I'm going to shoot. And then number three is going to be strategic supplementation. That's why today's episode is sponsored by Magic Mind, one of my favorite partners that we've partnered with lately. Just because I've been subscribed to Magic Mind for like over a year and I'm huge on hydration. Hydration, coffee, nootropics, adaptogens. They're legit. It'll give you the edge, it will help you when it comes to locking in in your creative mode and I want anything that's going to give me the advantage. I'm stacking all of the things that we're talking about in this episode so that I could show up powerfully, show up consistently, show up Focused and do my best creative work. Question number six, should you push through or rest? And how do you know when to do which? This is a great question. Here's a couple thoughts you could ask yourself. One, will the content suffer if I push through? So if you're like, you know what? I'm just gonna grind it, I'm gonna film, but you're in such a tired, fatigued, and, you know, devastated emotional and physical state that the video is going to be terrible, then you probably should have pushed through, because that's going to show up on camera. You know, we had Dan Martell on the Think Media podcast recently, and he said, he's like, there's just certain times when you shouldn't film a YouTube video, especially if you want the YouTube video to be great. You want to show up and, like, bring your energy, Bring the love, bring the energy, bring the presence, bring the connection. It's. It's an exchange, especially at the highest levels of YouTube. So if the content's gonna suffer, then you should probably rest and not push through. Is the cost of pushing too high? You know, are you on the very verge of a breakdown or burnout? Again, you should probably rest now. On the other side of the coin, chronic procrastinators may need discipline more than naps. And that's where a lot of people are at, you know, like, any opportunity to procrastinate is an opportunity that you seize. Then you need to suck it up a little bit. You gotta suck it up, buttercup. You just gotta punch fear in the face, punch perfectionism in the face, punch procrastination in the face and press record. And so this is always going to be attention to be managed. It's the grace versus grit question. It's attention. Listen to your body, but also lead your body. I remember one of my mentors told me this. The truth is, we don't receive energy, we create energy. Power plants don't receive energy, they create energy. And the human body is similar. So there is such a thing as authentic fatigue. But what this individual was telling me to do is said, one, rate your energy. And if you're listening to this podcast right now, what are you at? On a scale from 1 to 10, what is your energy? Doesn't matter, like where you are in the world, what time it is. Just whatever is an honest number. If it's a three, you're super tired. It's like a seven. Number one, just check in. What energy level am I at? Number two, raise it two notches. If you're at A six in your energy right now. You know it's true. You can make a choice to get to an 8. Now you might not be able to get to a 10. Maybe you're like, I'm at a I just, I, I, it's been a long day, I can't. But you always can get it raised a couple notches, which proves you can create energy in a moment's notice simply from awareness. Check in with yourself, check in with the number and then make a conscious decision to raise it. You might check in with yourself and you're like, I'm at a three. I mean, I could pump up to a five. Like if I got to show up and you know I'm going to do my best. But a 5 might not be what you want to show up on camera as well. Fine, then get some rest. But try to check in, listen to your body, but also lead your body. You're capable of a lot more than you give yourself credit for. And as you master energy management, emotional management, and you master supplementation and really dial in your rhythms, you'll be shocked how much more productivity or outputs the you from six months from now or 12 months from now can have from continuing to invest in these disciplines. And the content of this episode that we're talking about, number seven, how do you organize your work to support your energy and your flow? This is a great question. One is batching. Similar tasks. I try to in my schedule have meeting days on meeting days and creative days. On creative days I try to have left brain analytical activity like planning videos all in one batch and if possible on one day and right brain creative activity, filming, performing, getting on camera on a separate day or at least in a separate block, I like to look at the day in two big chunks, two four hour blocks. If I can't have all meetings on one day and only film on another day, I at least want to have it blocked out. Like half of the day is filming and the creative work and then the other half of the day is admin work. So batching similar tasks. Don't mix meetings with filming. Definitely use calendar blocks and understand there's a great book by Cal Newport called Deep Work. It's a longer book. You could study some of the YouTube videos, but if you're a big reader, definitely pick that one up. I'll link it up in the show notes. He talks about task switching costs attention. So multitasking is a myth. And multitasking is not even really something that you might think you can multitask and even if you're the best multitasker in the world, you're still actually probably losing productivity. And you'd be better if you did not switch between tasks but grouped them better. So that's how I like to organize my work and then thinking of on the arc of the week as well. I remember we were doing our leadership meetings at the end of the day on Friday and I always say the quote, you know, tired eyes rarely see a bright future. And we started to realize like there is such a low level of optimism on these meetings. Like sometimes we're not going to make good decisions because the level of no optimism is there. Like we do not see a bright future. So be aware of that. What are your rhythms in the week? What are the valleys and the peaks of the week? There's another good book. It's called at yout Best by Kerry Newhoff. I'll link to the interview with Kerry about this topic. He was on the Think Media podcast. We'll throw that in the show notes and it talks about red zones, green zones and yellow zones and knowing on your calendar when are your red zones yellow or green zones and then understanding it's actually not that you can't work during a red zone. It's just that the work you do should be like super boring and not demanding and definitely not demanding of the best you or the high performance you. But if you do need to show up and perform and put out your best creative work, you should do that during a green zone. So that's a great question. Those are some resources to help you go a little bit deeper if you're interested. And let's dive into the next one. Question number eight what did you do during the Side Hustle season when time was tight? Great question. I've been in many side Hustle seasons. One, I was working at Red Robin and also trying to do creative work and do YouTube. Two, I was full time staff at a church as either a campus pastor or director of communication and trying to do YouTube on the side. So this was tough. I think one was if I realized, okay, I'm transitioning from work but I want to get some creative work done. Personally I would tap into the power of naps. It was a nice reset. I do know if you nap too long, maybe you fall into a fatigue downward spiral that you can't recover from. You just wake up and you're like worse off. I understand that's true for some people. It would happen to me as well. But I just realized, okay, how do I reset? Maybe nap wake up, rest a little bit, coffee perhaps and then start creating another one. Would be just even having a reset routine if I can't take a nap, go for a walk, give myself a little chance to rest and recover. 30 minutes, an hour, and then just get up and decide to lock in again. Filming at night or editing at night, having buy in from my family, communication with my family, and understanding that it was also a sacrifice season. I think understanding the law of sacrifice in general, in order to go up, you've got to give up. And having a vision for my side hustle season that this isn't forever, that this is a side hustle now. And my dream is that one day it'll be my main hustle. And as a result I am sacrificing right now, putting in extra hours or working through added layers of fatigue because I'm investing in my future and I want to pay the price today for the future. I want to create tomorrow. That was my mindset. And another thing that I did during the side hustle season was I also became obsessed with ranking videos. Now if you're new to the Think Media podcast, what a ranked video on YouTube is is a video that you post today that keeps getting views for weeks, months and even years after you posted it. And so if you think about it, if you're in the side hustle season and resources are scarce, time and money, then a ranked video is like your greatest asset of all time. Because you don't have a ton of time, you only have a few hours after work or one half of your Saturday that you're going to devote to your YouTube channel. So I wanted to to create a particular type of content that would grow my channel when I wasn't working on my channel and that would make me money or passive income when I wasn't posting new videos that if during the summer when things were lighter at the church I was working at, I got a lot more videos done than during Easter or Christmas, especially when things were much more busier at the church. But because during that season of the year I was able to rank videos, I was getting views, subscribers, growth and income in perpetuity because the video is ranked now. Subscribe to the podcast for more on that. Or if you've never watched our free one hour class, it's at thinkmasterclass.com or click the link in the show notes and watch it's on demand one hour. It'll break down our seven step process for how to rank videos on YouTube. Ranked videos are like the eighth wonder of the world. They're the coolest thing in the world and they are a bridge from your side hustle to going part time or full time on YouTube. So that's one of the things. Don't just sacrifice during the season of sacrifice, but invest your time in the right things, in things that give you leverage, in things that multiply your time. What can I do today that'll give me more time and money tomorrow? Ranked videos will do that for you. And if you want to check out more about that, you can watch the free class and I'll link that up in the show Notes Question number nine what are your go to recovery habits when you're depleted? Well, I wrote down a couple of things from free to expensive. Number one, sleep. Still, most important, it is the number one recovery factor. I mean, from all my studies, I'm sure there's some in the community here that know more than me. Whether you're a physical therapist or a fitness coach or whatnot, like you want to recover after a workout sleep. It's like you want to recover after work sleep and the quality of your sleep. To all of my aura ring wearers or tracking your sleep or your HRV and all that stuff. But sleep most important. And I have found personally I know that not everybody likes to just take a lazy day or just lay in bed and lay on the couch and like watch Netflix. I do. I would love one of those soon please, if possible. Like I have found that that passive recovery when I've just been go, go go can really help me. And so I enjoy that. Then I also like active recovery. So going on walks, getting out in nature, movement, light movement or more intense movement. I know that would be less about recovery. If it's, if it's high intensity, then it's not as much recovery but you know, like a walk and then a PEMF mat, red light therapy. I mean I got red light panels behind me. You could see back there cold exposure. Which depending on the time of year in the Pacific Northwest where I am, I've been taking cold showers. I like going to the Banya, which is a Russian steam bath that's got cold plunge and sauna and steam room and red light therapy and Jacuzzi and you rotate through major active recovery place. Super great. And one of the things I've dreamt of doing is actually putting together like a ebook or something or like a download with of all my different supplements and recovery things and whatnot. Let me know if you'd be interested in that. If nobody is, then I won't make it. But ultimately those are a few things that I do. I take recovery very seriously and I'm very thoughtful about thinking about how can I recover well so I can stay at my best. Okay, we're going to get to question number 10 in just a second, but I've got a couple shout outs that I need to do first. Let me ask you a question. Which of these tips did you like best and do you have any tips to share with our community? If you're on the YouTube version where you're able to comment iron sharpens iron and there might be some things in your season of life. Maybe you're a mom, a lot of kids, you got some different things. Maybe it's a diet thing, maybe it's a supplement you love, maybe it's part of your routine. The comment section could share a lot of valuable information. So let's grow together. And as a reminder, use the promo code think M60 to get 60% off a magic Mind subscription. Highly recommended. One of my favorite products and yes, they are sponsor and I'm super pumped that they are and that when we reached out they wanted a partner because I've been a subscriber for over a year and I love Magic Mind and I think you will as well. All right, question number 10, what role does faith and prayer play in your creative rhythm? Answer a lot. I would say that out of any given 10 days in a row, I probably wake up and read the Bible, pray and journal. Nine out of ten of those days I will turn on worship, praise and worship music because it's a genuine shifter of atmospheres. If you look at David and Saul in the Bible, you know, David would play and it shifted the atmosphere around Saul. Elijah had a harpist for when he would prophesy. So the power of not just music but worship music, combined with prayer, giving God glory, it shifts my spirit, my attitude, my energy. There is a verse where it says David encouraged himself in the Lord, which even speaks to this. The power of prayer, worship and having that ability to shift your state, reconnect with God, draw strength from God's presence. I have found that prayer aligns my motives, aligns my message, gets me into the right zone. I have found that when I'm feeling discouraged, when things are heavy, that I will lean on God. There's a verse that says that God gives us the oil of gladness for the spirit of heaviness. I think earlier I talked about going on a walk and breathing if you're stressed. But prayer is the super power for feeling stressed or discouraged or overwhelmed. Knowing that we have a refuge in God has been huge. And so on Christ, this solid rock I stand all other ground is shifting sand. Cultivating my spiritual life, drawing strength out of the Bible, out of prayer, out of worship have been huge for me. And I've also found that as a business owner, entrepreneur and content creator, that we should expect creativity and wisdom out of our relationship with God. Not that it's like transactional, but these are like Bible verses. In James, it says if any of you lacks wisdom, you should pray for wisdom and God will give you wisdom. It says in Chronicles that the sons of Issachar knew the signs of the times and knew which action Israel should take. The first person that it says the spirit of God in the Bible rested on was Bezalel, who was a craftsman and a creative. So there is something about seeing this theme in scripture that God wants to partner with us as artists, as creators, and infuse us with creative energy. I believe that God is a creator and we were created in his image to create. He has woven creativity into our DNA and not just by nature, but also that if, if, if we want fresh inspiration, I mean, even the word enthusiasm, I might mess this up a little bit, but I believe the Latin root is infused with the spirit. And so enthusiasm is having God's spirit right partnered with our being. And so I actually really believe that our best creativity, our best innovation, our best ideas, our best artistic expression, but also our best creative problem solving comes out of a partnership with God. And it comes out of a lifestyle of that, but also out of moments where maybe there's a specific need, need we can go to God in prayer. And if you want, you know, more on this too, there actually is some good resources out there. They're not coming to mind, but there's. There's some good books on this, a lot of good passages. I've created some devotionals on this. If any of this topic interests you and you're on the YouTube version, let me know because I would love to talk more about the partnership of faith, business, creativity and like Holy Inside and Holy Spirit inspired content creation. If you have value out of today's episode, can you like, rate, review and share wherever you watch or listen? This is the Think Media podcast and my name is Sean Cannell, your guide to building a profitable YouTube channel. Thanks again for listening or watching and I will catch you in the next one.