Exercises 11 to 15: 5 yet more ways to end overwhelm & find your joy again as a creative
So this is the 3rd in this four part podcast series – with another further five standalone exercises, that are practical, doable, bite-able, free or very cheap. So start here! No need to go back to last weeks ;)

If you have hope in your heart you will have more grit, more persistence, more ability to overcome the challenges of making your work.
That hope, that taking a step each day forward is vital at every stage. From the incubation period of ‘ I have this idea’ to research, to the technical decisions such as ‘what is my medium for this, film, novel, song, gallery exhibition’ and so what do I need to learn, produce, budget for, market, finish, oh and how do I sell my finished product?!!!
So this is a 4 part podcast series – with 5 exercises each that are practical, doable, bite-able.
Try one at a time, for a week at least – ideally minimum 21 days and if you can try for 100 days each then the new habit will get into your DNA.

Exercises 11 to 15
11) Tackle one hard thing one small bite at a time. Do you have a real life problem you are hiding from? Or maybe you have tried to deal with it, and yet it is not easily solvable?
The only way to win - first spiritually, then emotionally, then in reality is to look at the problem straight on and ask what is the next singular step I can take?
Fighting the fight you need with your power company or resolving something so you can move on, it releases stuck energy in your life and you are declaring to the universe that you have got this, you will not be defeated and you are taking real actions to upgrade yourself, change the circumstances and also change how you react. No more hiding!
Whether it is calling the company, asking for friends or legal advice, going to Citizens Advice Bureau, having to move home or keep trying to find a job in this difficult time, tough times happen. All we can do is our best every day and that can seem impossible to change our situations. The way to create hope that is solvable is by you taking the appropriate actions, one at a time.
I did a podcast on ‘Ask Whats Next’ on creating your projects but the question is just as valid in real life problems a la David Allen’s productivity book ‘Getting Things Done’.
Do you need to write a new CV, then go do it, do you need to get your debt levels brought down?
Devise a plan with small actionable steps and then follow it. Get support around you to help if you need, but you will start feeling hopeful and fierce again, once you start taking the actions to resolve the issue,
Get the energy moving!
12) Go to an exhibition (online if you can’t get there) but its better in person and just enjoy seeing and learning about what the curator has put together.
Seeing objects that people used or created, letters they may have written, is tremendously empowering and connecting.
I remember when I was researching for my sexual politics show on us all being judged by our sexuality ‘Queen Of The F*cking World’ seeing the Emma Hamilton exhibition in National Maritime Museum, Greenwich which had the fabulous tagline: Politician, celebrity, spy, muse. Oh and Lord Nelson’s lover’.
Again it forms a sense of connection and that struggles, as a human, as an artist is part of life. It is our choice how we tackle that and someone like Emma Hamilton from being so poor she was basically a prostitute to reaching the heights she did, to then ending up dying in prison, largely thanks to the British press and government propaganda.



13) Junk Or Joy.
#JunkOrJoy is a 100 day challenge to yourself where you look at your thoughts, habits and actions and decide in the moment if you are choosing to live from a place of negativity or indeed you choose joy.
I literally ask myself ' Is this Junk or is this joy' when negative thoughts pop up or I find myself overindulging in too much Netflix as opposed to working on my creative projects.
When obstacles hit us sometimes the only thing we can do is change how we are reacting to them by asking ‘Is this Junk or Is this Joy,?’ and then from there choosing to come from a wiser place.
It allows you not to get sucked into a spiral of negativity, but to be able to stop and say 'yes this is awful but let me focus on something else' whether that is planning your next life steps or indeed calling your bank manager.
I did an entire podcast episode on this so do listen if you want to learn more.




14) Chanting or meditation.
We all have different spiritual practices that work for us all but commit to daily practise of sone form of meditation you are happy with.. It works, all the science proves it so do it. They have tested brain waves patterns and you can see an absolute difference in what is happening in the brain.
The long you chant or meditate for, either in terms of length of practice such as for one year or ten years, or in terms of doing it for ten minutes or 30 minutes a day, the quicker your brain waves pattern change, your memory and decision making improves.
Tina Turner used chanting to find the strength to leave Ike and carve her own path. her West End musical has chanting at the beginning and end of each half to emphasise how important it was for her and indeed she has now written a book.
Headspace the meditation app is also great and has some free stress meditations on it.
The Royal Shakespeare Company Associate Artist, painter and choreographer Liz Ranken has a morning practise of exercise, chanting, mantras and mediation before she starts mixing her paints. Her first portrait is in London’s National Portrait Gallery!
Make it a non negotiable. Ten minutes a day start a new practise that works for you.

15) No alcohol or mind bending substances (I exclude caffeine) for a month.
This idea that creatives always have to be in an altered state via external substances to create, is a dangerous creative myth. I am not anti having a good time, and I do happily drink champagne, no plans on stopping that. But when you have lost your hope, life is hard or you can’t get your projects moving forward, getting serious about your art is vital. Clearing space in your mind, heart and in your body will re-ignite you.
Alcohol of course is a depressant. Drugs have a come down, hangovers, you don’t need either when you are fighting for your life and hope. I appreciate many people enjoy weed but it has the propensity to numb you out and being a successful creative requires a real fight.
So this is not an anti-fun for life argument , I love my full on annual two week partying rapture and chaos trip at Cannes Film festival each year and plan to keep on doing that. I was very sad about the 2020 festival being cancelled as I need my fun.
Just like with Footloose, the film, there is a time to dance. There is also a time to ‘werk, bitch’ and having a sober focused period of your choice, a week, a month, 3 months etc will help get you hoping and moving your creative life forward.
Do get professional help if you become very depressed and reach out.




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I am creating a toolkit with all 20 exercises in with further questions to really move you forward and giving it as a gift to everyone for the next two months – til November 18th 2020- to help you move your creative projects forward and get you loving your creativity again. If you would like a copy of this then either email me with the subject TOOLKIT to
info@loveyourcreativity.com
Or go to www.loveyourcreativity.com and pop your email into the pop up and you will get the toolkit and checklist questions. I am getting this set up currently so any issues just email me

Aims of this podcast
I sometimes only seem to create when I have to create, under pressure or deadlines and then I moan about the rush. Ridiculous when I think about the fact I have chosen this creative life, or it has chosen me and I must follow my muse – often grumpily it seems! Or I do nothing and then feel guilty as I watch friends get with their own projects. Hence this podcast is about what techniques we can all use to get the work done and out there, no matter where you work full time as an actor, a choreographer or have a yearning to paint more over the weekends. I have been a creator of shows for nearly 20 years now, I have made every mistake going, met incredible people along the way and now am a world touring working creative still working at my craft.

About me, Marysia Trembecka

I am at heart a storyteller and this has translated from the initial creation of work to being a performer, including film and theatre acting, writing and performing international touring comedy shows to MCing.
Highlights include sell-out Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe shows, singing at the Royal Festival Hall in 23 different languages, as well as doing TEDx talks and corporate gigs, such as the Brit Awards Afterparty at the 02 as my ‘The Singing Psychic’ bio queen character.

My ‘THE SINGING PSYCHIC’ who ‘reads the songs in your heart’ also has a GAME SHOW version, and was a finalist in Best Show, Funny Women in 2016, I have also produced five webseries as the character including my 23 episode SONGS OF BREXIT webseries I made for the June 2016 EU Referendum, on the pros and cons of the EU
I also was awarded Arts Council funding for research on a solo show on how we are all judged by our sexuality, From this I then created another character ‘Queen Of The F*cking World’ which has also toured internationally
My film acting credits are on IMDB and indeed my projects are http://marysiatrembecka.com/media-gallery/
www.loveyourcreativity.com