Protect one thing - ‘Sacrifice’ another.

Over coffee with a filmmaker I realised that I’ve taken one passion (photography) and ‘sacrificed’ certain aspects of it, in order to protect my other passion, making music. By verbalising this I’ve seen that this has made so much space in my life and ‘creative soul’ and is a compromise I’ve come to accept. Often when talking to people frustrated by their current career, they tell me they’d like to find ‘that one thing’ that they can do to both feel fulfilled as well as paying the bills. In this episode I ask the question if we shouldn’t find ‘two things’ and use one to do something we like while the other is kept free of external pressures to be anything other than what we want it to be. In a way I’m talking about having two supercharged hobbies, and not just ‘a job’ and a ‘hobby’ fitting in-between the cracks between the job and your life.