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Unstuck
by Andri Søren Haflidason
Hi. I’m Andri Søren Haflidason, a ‘creative type’ that’s trying to get himself unstuck. This is my narration of that process, but moreover me trying to conquer my own personal traits that often block me from just doing things. Making a podcast on the topic of the moment seemed like a good idea, both for my own sanity and hopefully not to the detriment of yours. Now stop listening to this podcast and go get unstuck!
Episodes
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Daily Creative #23 - Knowing When to Pause
Sometimes it’s worth pausing and asking ourselves for a moment if a project shouldn’t be paused, or even stopped. It’s very easy to prefer to just keep going. There can be comfort in that, but also risks. Checking in every now and then with ourselves is very much worth it - Unstuck is a podcast...
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Daily Creative: Emotions: the hidden story
Rationalising something is often the go to tool to be able to understand something. A muscle well exercised and tied to reason and logic. Emotions, ours and those of others, are an undercurrent of everything we think and do, and yet we often ignore or dismiss them. Emotions are there to protect…
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Daily Creative #21 - Priorities
Priority management is challenging. Which stakeholder do we prioritise for? What if it clashes severely with our own priority? Try looking at the situation from a few key angles. Combine the result with your own personal priority. You might get closer to a balance of priorities - Unstuck is a...
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Daily Creative #20 - Experiment when helping
Sometimes the tried and tested way isn’t the only way. Sometimes the obvious won’t cut it. Sometimes a little (kind) experiment can deliver unexpected results - Unstuck is a podcast about how we often get ourselves stuck in all sorts of ways, in particular as freelancers and creative people. Andri
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Daily Creative #19 - How are you feeling?
How do you feel? It’s a generous, kind act to ask this question, to ourselves and to others. Mental health is a world/concept I’m slowly getting to know better, and I should stress I’m not a professional of any kind, and do please seek one when in any doubt. What I can say is that it’s a place...
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Daily Creative #18 - Ask don’t Tell
Try asking questions more. In your personal life, in your professional relationships, and to those you seek to help / your customers. It shows both respect and interest, and is an incredibly generous act - Unstuck is a podcast about how we often get ourselves stuck in all sorts of ways, in...
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Daily Creative #17 - How does your character affect your work?
There are so many almost invisible ways our characters affect how we do our work, how we are with who we are seeking to help, and the expectations and hopes that go hand in hand with our work. How does your personality affect your work? Unstuck is a podcast about how we often get ourselves stuck…
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Daily Creative #16 - Bandwidth
Bandwidth - our capacity as individuals, professionals or organisations is limited - spend it wisely. Unstuck is a podcast about how we often get ourselves stuck in all sorts of ways, in particular as freelancers and creative people. Andri
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Daily Creative #15 - Shout about your work
If we do good work, we should be comfortable shouting about it. If we seek to help or inspire people with what we do, there has to be a mechanism for getting it to them with confidence (and class, ideally). It’s a kindness rather than a violent act, even though for all sorts of reasons it can…
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Daily Creative #14 - Workflow
What’s your ideal workflow? Is there such a thing? - Unstuck is a podcast about how we often get ourselves stuck in all sorts of ways, in particular as freelancers and creative people. Andri
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Daily Creative #13 - Knowing yourself is so helpful
Knowing ourselves better as individuals can help so much. In understanding better how and why we expect things to be a certain way, why we react the way we do in particular situations. Knowing ourselves better is perhaps one the richest most powerful ways of helping ourselves. It can seem scary…
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Daily Creative #12 - Stop
Stop for a moment. How do you feel? Take a moment. Amidst the pressures we put ourselves under, or that come from the external world, it’s important we stop and give ourselves a bit of mindful space. Sometimes you’ll stop and notice built up tension, somewhere in your body or your breathing.…
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Daily Creative #11 - How can I find joy in what I’m doing?
How can we find joy in what we do? It’s a question as well as a prompt/challenge. I think we need that prompt sometimes to remember to enjoy the parts of what we do that we find difficult or would rather not do. At the very least it can be a reminder to be kind to ourselves and those we work with…
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Daily Creative #10 - Show up for yourself with love
It’s sometimes easier to help others than it is to help ourselves. Try starting with a little love for yourself and you might be able to show up more often - Unstuck is a podcast about how we often get ourselves stuck in all sorts of ways, in particular as freelancers and creative people. Andri
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Daily Creative #9 - How can I Best be of Service to those I seek to Help?
How can we best (I stress this word) be of service to those we seek to help? Being a solopreneur, entrepreneur and teacher involves stopping every now and then to decide where to focus our resources and how to deploy our skills to best help our customers, tribe members and supporters. I come back...
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Daily Creative #8 - Brand Loyalty
Brands are akin to people at times. There can be a sense of loyalty between a brand and a consumer. We have expectations of brands which are people-like at times. We often accept or assign values to them which if not met can lead to an impressively strong emotional reaction. This goes for me as a...
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Daily Creative #7 - Relationships
Relationships of all kinds, personal, creative or business are uniquely challenging things. They are downright fascinating in fact. There is always so much to learn and to consider. So many different angles to consider. And yet there are also those relationships that need changing, and this is...
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Daily Creative - Focus has different flavours
Focus isn’t always calm and zen. Focus can also be full of energy, almost nervous, statically charged by events in the outside world. Sometimes this can be useful. Being able to embrace and lean on certain different kinds of focus can be useful. Perhaps it’s worth making space for these different...
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Daily Creative - Everybody’s human after all
Everyone is sensitive and human. We can expect from everyone and of course ourselves moments when the balance of what is said or what is felt is challenging. It’s easy to forget how powerfully we as human beings can be nudged or even pushed into a feeling or state of mind that we’d rather not...
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Daily Creative - Self vs Product
Turning ourself or what we know or so into a product is tough, especially on our own. We can help by recognises the parts of ourselves or characteristics of our personality (or personalities) which can help, and others that we might choose to recognise but save their energy for elsewhere. Working...
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Daily Creative: Change = Friction
For anything to change in the universe, there is some kind of friction, energy exchange or metamorphosis necessary. This is the same for our projects, creative or entrepreneurial. If we recognise that this is a healthy and natural part of the change we seek, we might learn to love it. We are...
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Daily Creative: Resistance overcome
Today I moved past resistance. Not completely, but enough to get going. A small step of many more steps ahead. There are so many things to say about resistance, a concept popularised by Steven Pressfield in his very enjoyable and provocative book “the war of art” (thanks Oscar for the...
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Daily Creative: I need my “self” to turn up today
Today I’m embarking on the next stage of a big project. And I’m feeling unsure if the version of my self that I need today will turn up. I can feel resistance. I’ve had a conversation with myself about this already. Now I need to turn up. Here’s a short reflection on that. Unstuck is a podcast...
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Questions about my Creative Career (with Trevor Rutherford)
Unstuck is a podcast about how we creative types (artists, freelancers, entrepreneurs) often get ourselves stuck in all sorts of ways. After another longish pause, I'm back. I was contacted recently by a musician, composer, and sound designer Trevor Rutherford. The subject line was "Questions…
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Unstuck: bird by bird
Unstuck is a podcast about how we often get ourselves stuck in all sorts of ways, in particular as freelancers and creative people. And we're back... after almost 3 years I'm finally making that second episode of season 2. Here's the short version of the story: after my sense of flow and...
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Unstuck: In the corona crisis, there are many things we can’t change. Focus on what you CAN change.
While I’m quite used to a relatively solitary life, especially in my work, the corona crisis is surely the director’s cut; longer, more challenging, and with unexpected new angles that only the diehard fans would watch. In short, I’ve been struggling to make my online school, a project that lay...
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Why failing is often succeeding - the failure might be “headline news” but the story is what matters
In this podcast about getting unstuck as a creative person, I had set myself the target to make one episode a day. With no end in sight, I inevitably tripped up and failed. Here’s why that’s absolutely fine, and a reminder to look past the simplistic headline of “I failed” and understand why you...
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Take on one thing at a time, juggle too quickly and you’ll drop one,and it might be the valuable one
In conjunction with this podcast I’ve also started making a weekly blog, and weekly music videos, ignoring my own advice of making proper time for things and keeping them modest in their ambition. Turns out we keep having to learn our own lessons :)
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Reduce choice - by having fewer decisions to make you free up space for more important things.
I once heard that Barack Obama kept just two suits - grey or blue - meaning that he could just choose one or the other and get onto more important decisions. Steve Jobs just had one outfit. What they were doing was taking a few decisions out or simplifying them so that they could avoid losing any...
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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...
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It’s Now or Never. Just let it Go. Get Loose. Why sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith.
The last two weeks I’ve achieved more than in the last two years. By this I mean those projects I cared, thought and talked about the most. I actually can’t tell you exactly what came over me. But I can tell you this. It feels great. Now, I’m a firm believer in taking a brief look at the risks...
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Write down the moments you felt you came closest to doing what you love in life. This is a huge clue
A few moments in my life changed everything. They were actually very humble, very calm, and full of reflection. The first time was in Italy, sitting in a café, and I decided to write down the moments or projects where I had felt closest to “me”, closest to doing what I want to do in life. That...
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You’re not alone - and - your time and energy are precious; define and defend them.
While it might feel like we’re alone in our “stuckness”, it just ain’t true. I’ve had really nice feedback from people reaching out from various corners of my life sharing how this topic affects them, and it gives me energy to not only continue, but to know that it’s such a shared feeling. Of...
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Put. It. Away. Put your phone out of reach, and get seriously unstuck.
My phone has slowly but surely sabotaged my ability to concentrate and get things done. Finding a place to put it, out or reach and out of mind, has made be happier and more productive. When I do reach for it I know I’ve “earned” it, and I quickly yearn to get back to my projects.
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If there’s something getting you down, that you can’t control, put it a box!
For the last 3 years I’ve been tormenting myself with one topic (Brexit and my future in Belgium, where I live) and it’s drained me of energy for so much else. Here I talk about the way I found to stop letting it block everything else in my life.
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Do the opposite of your usual instincts & habits that get you stuck, you’ll be pleasantly surprised
This podcast is about how we often get bogged down or stuck by our own internal instincts, thought processes and habits. I left my carefully curated career in architecture six years ago and I’ve been gradually getting myself ever more unstuck since, becoming happier and getting closer to a...
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Saying yes and saying no, and mental bandwidth; ways to not get stuck
Over the years I’ve seen that creating a framework for how you say yes or no to work and to obligations in general is a fantastic way of avoiding getting stuck in the first place. Furthermore if you’re open and honest about these with yourself and others, you experience far fewer problems down…
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I give one of my biggest tips of the last years for getting unstuck, something that really saved me!
In this, episode 5 of unstuck, I share the habit that, after some years, has helped me get to decide what it is I want to do, concentrate and commit to it, and in turn get so much done. It involves a simple way of putting certain projects on certain days, and taking that as a contract with…
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Today I really got unstuck. I started that thing I’ve struggled with for a year or more.
A quick update on my level of unstuckness - I manage to really get something done, and it feels fantastic. Listen in and check out the result on my YouTube channel (Andri Søren)
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I go for another walk, structure my thoughts (and day) and share some recent discoveries.
In this episode I talk about some recent discoveries I’ve made that help me get unstuck (or avoid getting stuck in the first place) this year, along with a walk through the centre of Brussels. Enjoy!
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I go for a walk. Make basic mistakes, talk about success, Brussels, and David makes me some tea
Ok so first an apology - this episode didn’t at all go to plan because I didn’t realise the built in recording on this app would ignore the stereo recording I was trying to do. There is a small break near the start where I explain that, which is also a bit louder than the rest (which is very…
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This is me snapping out of my mental funk & getting unstuck. 🦹🏼♂️
I usually think about something for a lo(oooo)ng time before doing anything, if doing anything at all. I want to do things super well, I want to analyse everything about them first, and then spend forever making something perfect. I’m also scared of failure, but probably equally scared of…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hi. I’m Andri Søren Haflidason, a ‘creative type’ that’s trying to get himself unstuck. This is my narration of that process, but moreover me trying to conquer my own personal traits that often block me from just doing things. Making a podcast on the topic of the moment seemed like a good idea, both for my own sanity and hopefully not to the detriment of yours. Now stop listening to this podcast and go get unstuck!
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