Creative Work
Walk the creative path.
Not by chasing creative highs, and not by waiting for inspiration. Step by step, with curiosity, and with a lot more play than you think you're allowed.
Not by chasing creative highs, and not by waiting for inspiration. Step by step, with curiosity, and with a lot more play than you think you're allowed.
My mission is to bring more play and joy into the world, by helping people reconnect with the creative source. Kuzan Aoi
In 2022 I decided to become a musician. I locked myself in my room, produced, pushed, hustled, and slowly dried out. I started waiting for inspiration to strike. It didn't.
What brought me back wasn't more discipline. It was space: hiking, wandering, bonfires, playing with friends, carrying my ukulele up mountains. I learned that to express life in your art, you have to live it. There is no separation between life and art.
Today, not creating has become harder for me than creating. Everything I share here, on YouTube and in my courses comes from that path.
You have a space problem. A crowded, busy mind keeps you away from the here and now, and that's exactly where ideas arrive.
Your best ideas aren't really yours. You don't hunt them down. You make room, show up, and let them come through you, from the creative source.
Waiting for inspiration feels passive, but it's the busiest road there is. Instead of chasing creative highs, walk the steady path of staying creative.
You cannot beat someone who's having fun. Resistance is real, but you can get curious about it instead of only fighting it.
Most creative rules aren't laws. Test them, break them, and cherish the unique colour only you can bring.
To express life with your art, you have to live. Nature, adventure and real connection are the soil your creativity grows in.
We are no machines, and we're not only here to produce. Cooking, talking, walking, living: you create all the time. Songs and art are just one more door.
A good fire burns completely. Multitasking only makes smoke. Whatever you do on your creative path, give it all of you, one thing at a time.
If money, fame or status become the goal, you've lost the plot. We all started out of love for the craft. Keep that fire, and let the rest follow.
Not passive waiting, but active presence. Letting things unfold in their own time while you keep showing up.
A little every day. The voice that says "not today" will always be there. Constancy is meeting it again and again.
If it's no fun, it's no fun. Enjoy the path, even the struggle, and stay open to change. Nobody can beat someone who's having fun.
“Let go of the outcome, and focus on the process.” The mantra I sing every day
No big system needed to begin. Just a few honest habits.
An instrument (or a pen), a tiny wordbook to catch ideas the moment they show up, and an empty cup: a mind with room for something new.
The Zen idea of ichigyō zanmai: set a timer, commit to one single activity, and give it everything until the time is up, or until the sun goes down.
No phone in the first hour of the day. Sing, clean, hum, make tea. Let the day start with you, not with everybody else.
Stuck? Go for a walk, a swim, wash the dishes. My best melodies and words come while hiking, not while staring at an empty page.
Before you create, sit in silence for a few minutes and get to know the place you're in. The setting always writes the song with you.
Blocked on your own? Surround yourself with two or three creative people. Creativity flows so much easier in resonance with others.
Three videos from my channel that sum up how I think about creative work.
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A course for everyone who wants to work creatively for four hours straight, focused, joyful and free from the feeling of being blocked.
It brings together everything that got me out of my own block: making space, burning fully on one thing at a time instead of smoking like a wet bonfire, and finding the play again. Less waiting for inspiration, more calm presence packed with curiosity.
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Book a free intro call or write me. Sometimes one honest conversation is all it takes to get things flowing again.