was definitelyyyyy minding my business scrolling through the crocs website 😬😬😬 with this in the background and heard my name lmaoooooo YES STREAMING IS SO FUN! it helps me slow down the content treadmill/hamster wheel by removing the editing+approval process altogether
Having just cried to my mom on the phone about my concerns that my workplace isn't going to be as accommodating of my disability upon coming back to the office full-time, that podcast sounds INCREDIBLE and exactly what I need.
Btw I'd recommend checking out Cassie Winter on here. As a chronically ill person their channel is a breath of fresh air. (Good luck navigating going back to the office, i hope it all goes okay)
PLEASE do that podcast!!! I had a year of confronting the fact that I'm chronically ill and going from someone who felt like they were smashing life to genuinely questioning whether I could work 5 days a week at all. Hearing about organisation and productivity from that perspective would be incredible and help so much. Like, how can you be productive when you feel like you need to sleep every couple of hours? How can I be my best and smash it when my brain is full of bees? Seriously Hannah, I think that would be so great. One committed listener here already 👋
The productivity podcast through an anti-capitalist and disability lense sounds very interesting! I feel like the productivity side of UA-cam is very focussed on "get up a 5am, read 7 books a week, exercise for hours daily" which is just not feasible for most people let alone people with disabilities/chronic pain/illnesses. I would love a new perspective!
YES please some productivity+disability (and anti-capitalist, but first and foremost the disability lense) stuff! I have not set any goals as such as I am working on some heavy stuff. Things are going well, though not as fast as I'd like them to, but that's just how it's supposed to be!
I personally love all long form videos because I feel like reels/tik tok has an adverse effect on my attention span. So, please don't stop the rambling. 🥺 Yes yes yes to the video podcast clips and the live streams (if you can manage it)! ❤️
Would definitely listen to that kind of productivity podcast!! My main goal for this year is just to finish my masters. So close to the end now, my dissertation is due at the end of august!! Send me all the motivation vibes pleaaase
Good luck! I submitted mine three weeks ago and my brain felt fried the last few weeks of working on it! But it felt amazing to click submit - now I am free!
the anti-capitalist disability productivity podcast sounds amazing! defo something I need and would listen to all the time. would be such a refreshing view point.
Ooh I would love to listen to that productivity podcast! Tarquin Alexandra made a docu about chronic illness and the music industry that you might find interesting ^^
I kind of miss the plant in the background. How is it doing? And could you put a little plant in the new studio background? If you like? Plants make me feel calm. :)
Hannah I would absolutely love an anti-capitalist & disability focused podcast about productivity etc! A lot of creators are all very much about the 'girl boss' mentality and 'rise & grind' whereas it would be so refreshing and lovely to de-center the capitalist elements to that! I think I would find it so useful as someone who struggles with my mental & physical health to understand actual realistic and achievable productivity aims rather than feel overwhelmed and expect too much of myself or feel like I'm not achieving as much as others.
I very much need that new podcast idea to be a real thing! My big overarching goal was to grow my small business, but the specifics were mostly unrealistic. Having chronic illnesses makes productivity SO HARD!
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is not specifically productivity focused but it does take on a wide range of issues, including creating and "being productive", through the lens of disability. It was a book that really challenged me this year and got me thinking in new ways. I listened to the audiobook and would highly recommend. I also think the author (Leah Lakshmi) would be an incredible person to interview on Doing It.
we definitely don't want you to feel stressed about these videos, but even the more chatty/one take/unfiltered videos are amazing, just so like to watch your videos and love how frequently they come out!
For creative free time I don't think it's enough to free up the time. Have you ever read Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way?" You don't have to follow her entire regimen, but her idea of "Artist Dates" was genius. I would schedule time to do something specific with myself that I felt would connect me with my creative side. It was very generative and rewarding.
@@morehannah I think you'd like dipping into it. It's full of encouragement and practical tips and resources for exploring creativity. Now that I think of it, it may be time for me to take it off the shelf again!!
You should also check out the jealous curator. She has a book called creative block that has lots of little jump starter type art exercises, might be helpful to get you going!
I'm in school studying music composition and this requires me to pick a time to be creative. It is weird at first but I actually get more done by sitting down and forcing myself to write music than when I wait for inspiration to strike. The issues I have found is that when I wait for inspiration to strike it happens at inconvenient times so I never make that much progress with those ideas. But if I jot down the notes when the inspiration strikes than look at the notes during my creative time it works better for me.
omg anticapitalist/disability productivity podcast would be a HUGE yes from me. it's such a fraught space - i feel like i've used things I've learned from engaging with productivity culture to define and protect boundaries/ understand the limitations of work spaces i've been in, but it's always work to 'translate' that usefulness out of the capitalist framework/ apply it to my life as a mentally ill person, and also to avoid getting sucked in to the worst impulses of that world.
I also didn't make any resolutions in January because my chronic illness flared up really badly and I didn't know what would happen to me, but I have wanted to write a longer fanfic for ages, and for camp nanowrimo I decided to set a goal of 15,000 words in July. And, despite another flare up halfway through I'm very close to being back on track with 10,000 words so far! I'm super pleased with this, mainly because it's really fun and I'm excited for people to read it, but also because it's one of my first goals that I purposefully made achievable and reasonable, and I did it! It'll be so nice to say I've won camp nanowrimo, and that I kept my promise to myself :)
I've tried to do the creative goal before and did the same thing, just sat there like, eh. However, I've found it works when I've had a specific creative project I want to do. Like, I already know what it is I want to do.
just checked my goals and i actually got to do so much already! of course a lot of things still didn't happen, but at the beginning of the year i had no faith i would be able to check even one thing off the list. but i did it!!! And also, your podcast idea is great. I am all for finding a way to be productive and proud of the life i lead without falling into the capitalist guilt of not doing enough.
Hey Hannah :) A note on the "content creation hamster wheel" (love that name): I've been a blogger for 5 years and I'm relaunching youtube TOMORROW! I'm excited, but the reason it didn't work out before was because I felt like you. From 5 years I've blogging I've learnt to batch content when I'm feeling creative, so that I can rest when I'm not. I can film 2-3 videos in a day, or write 4-5 articles when I'm feeling inspired. That way if I don't feel like creating then I just don't for a while, but my audience never realise because there's always content going out :)
yes to the anti-capitalist disability podcast! all I see online is about hustling/grinding, founding your own businesses and making lots of money. I know many people with chronic illnesses, mental issues etc. (myself included) that just can’t keep up with that. we feel bad for things we often can’t change, when it’s actually the system that’s massively flawed.
Well done for doing so well on so many of your goals!! One of my goals for this year was quit smoking (I didn’t count it as a resolution because I wasn’t planning to quit on Jan 1st). I got in contact with the stop smoking team at my local hospital. Quit at the end of January with the patches and have now done 6 months of not smoking and 2 weeks without any nicotine replacement!! My other goal was to start a business/etsy shop. Which is going decidedly less well but I am slowly making progress :)
For the creativity one, I agree with you can’t block time and just say time to be creative! BUT you could carve out time during the week whether it is an hour or half a day where it is free time to do whatever your heart desires. Sometimes that might be vacuuming, reading a book, working on a new project idea, whatever you want! It builds in time for flexibility without the daunting task of it must be something creative! Naturally creative things will happen sometimes.
I also didn't write down an actual list, but I had things I wanted to do; - move (did that) - learn to sew (started but slow) - keep exercising (stopped that) - improve my Dutch and start speaking (did that) - graduate from my Master's (hopefully doing that soon) - get another tattoo (cant travel due to covid) - make friends (still working on that) - do more creative things (haven't really done that)
with the creative time-my goal has been to do a creative hobby a little bit every day. right now i’m learning guitar, but i’m hoping to incorporate some creative writing soon. my sister just started doing a lot of pottery and loves it. kind of like exercise, it can be a good way to detach and reset if you have the time for it
I think creativity is so much like sexual drive: you can’t force it it pops up randomly you need to be fairly happy, healthy and not stressed in order for it to thrive so treat creativity time like sex, have blocks of time where you are open to it during the week, but it doesnt mean you have to. if you are in the mood - great! if not, all good. maybe an hour before work or an hour in the evening most days. then after doing it a few times you find your rhythm and what/when works for you. what turns it on? what environment do you need? good luck!
Thanks for sharing Hannah! Would love to listen to that podcast ! Would be interested to listen with the lens of how other areas of ability affect productivity/organisation too e.g. mental illness and neurodiversity (if that wasn’t already included within what you meant by disability) :)
oooh the idea of a Patreon scrapbook is so cool! Or even a zine? Like, the partons collaborating on a zine of all types of art (writing, visual art, photography, etc) and articles centred around sex & relationships sounds awesome.
A big shout-out to your editor! I've just made my first video: it was only 1 minute long and editing it nearly killed me - I can't imagine editing hours of footage every week and consistently producing such a polished result.
Can you be creative at the snap of your fingers? Well, kinda yes, having a creative professions stimulated me to learn some tips and tricks on that. Yeah, sometimes you sparkle with ideas, and sometimes you feel sloppy, but you still need to get work done.) The hardest part in this state of mind is to actually start doing something. Allocating time for creativity is a good strategy, I guess it didn't work because you had no plan for this "creativity sessions". So you've got this dump of huge ideas, you can try brainstorm some of these ideas during these creative time, play around it, try to mind-map it, learn something about this idea, so step by step it will be more real. Or may be you can brainstorm how to fit this amount of projects in your schedule - just make a list of things and choose what sparkles your creativity this week. There're a lot of technics you can use to boost your creativity in the moment: 1) making some restrictions for this session (don't use specific words/colors, trying to write down 10 ways to use some ordinary item you have - like watch or a bow tie, etc). 2) Try out different brainstorming techniques. Sometimes it helps to mind map, or draw something abstract, and sometimes you just need to start writing down everything that comes to mind, even: "Nothing comes to mind, what should I write about? Do I have to do it for another 15 minutes? How do I feel about it?" 3) Make it a party! If there're people who sparkle your creativity, try to include them in these sessions, and may be together it'll work much better. A lot of times when I struggle with some idea at work, I just need to chat about it with my colleagues, to hear their opinions and questions. 4) And if you really want to bring it to another level, you might check out TRIZ or TIPS (it's called Theory of inventive problem solving in English) - there're some practical methods on how to find a creative solution to your problem. It teaches you to turn your ideas around by formulating the contradiction in your problem (for example, you need more content to earn money, but you need less content so you can have some free time), several ideal results of this contradictions (for example - content creates itself, creating more content doesn't take more time, etc). This theory was designed for solving engineering problems, but some of its principles can be applied to any problem. I hope some of this tips will help you you!
I would recommend going through the book The Artist Way, or some kind of a workbook. These things help me structure my creative time, or boost my creativity and then I'm able to do unstructured creative time too. :D
Dr. Devon Price released a book recently called "Laziness does not exist" which definitely looks at productivity through an anti-capitalist, disability lens. I haven't finished it yet but I'm enjoying it so far. I don't think it's looking at productivity in exactly the way you're suggesting but it might be a good jumping off point :)
I’m autistic and a scientist (researching sensory processing in autism) so I do a lot of reading about autism and disability and capitalism etc just in my own time and when researching and finding other things for work. Sounds like an incredibly fun chat! If you ever invite other people onto your chat podcast I would love to chat! (Tbh just chat anyway it doesn’t have to be a podcast 😂)
Hannah saying she wants to get off the hamster wheel and then talking about considering doing things on top of what she's already doing. Me: No, don't do things on top of what you already do. Replace! Replace! Replace! Make yourself some spare time. Doing more is not the answer. And yes! That podcast idea sounds amazing! (I would love if it could be published here on this channel, as I easily miss things on other platforms. But that is maybe just me.)
I have a list, where I write down creative stuff I wanna do, which I then pick from whenever I have the time & energy to be creative. Might be an idea for your creative time slot?
All i can say is that I am really really jealous of you being able to enjoy your tennis 🎾 please stay safe and enjoy your reading love your Australia fan John xxx
maybe for your creative free time goal you could schedule a no-pressure creative hobby, something that isn't content-oriented or than you don't intend to ever see the light of day. from memory this goal was about nurturing creativity w/out directly capitalising on it
Would be interesting to hear if you have a List B for goals after you get pregnant or are you planning for as long as possible to run your same week and goals?
Honestly I've been using Premiere for yonks and I still can only do the basics and a bit of colour correction maybe. There's sooo much I don't know! ... and don't even start me on After Effects.
For creative free-time maybe you could set a loose goal of every week following your impulses. For example if you feel like drawing one evening you could make a point of actually doing it
Hi Hannah on the topic of being able to get off the Hamster wheel, I work for FedEx who currently have a global program on DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion) and I got the chance to speak with a Seinor executive for Europe about how to better educate and inform internal staff and promote externally all the great work / effort being done by the company in Europe. Sufficient to say your skills and abilities were sold big time. So should you get a call from FedEx with a job offer.... Your welcome 😜
fellow freelancer her: I wanna hear the podcast! Also: I follow my creative bursts as they come if I can push around the things that I have to do that day :-)
Well I didn't know I needed it, but I'd really watch/listen/read organizational content with that anticapitalist and disability lense. Like... Yes please!!
What about setting 'creative free time' almost like a budget? So like give yourself X amount of time per week/day that when you feel inspired, you have X amount of time to spend on it that day/week etc? No idea if that makes sense but feels like it might work?
Oh it's quite funny, I am a German who started watching you to understand English better and now you are learning German. Ich wünsche dir ganz viel Glück und Erfolg beim Deutsch lernen, lass dich von "der, die, dass" nicht unterkriegen.
Might be a bad idea but I have always wondered what would happen if you treated UA-cam like a podcast and posted videos in seasons instead of weekly to allow for creative breaks. Has anyone tried this?
hannah would you be interested in a part time researcher? bc my lord that job sounds fascinating :D hiring someone like a uni student would also mean having access to that database and therefore tons of academic articles. Might be good for someone to do 8hrs a week or something!
As someone who also creates UA-cam videos I can totally relate to the content creation hamster wheel. If anyone has any tips for dealing with this, please share!🙏
Stop being so good at everything! lol I know you're not an Intuitive personality type, because you're not messy enough. :P I'm guessing ESTJ, because that the way you bitches are and I'm ALWAYS JEALOUS. The personality type functions are fun, once you get into them. I'd love to see you do more with that, because people are so uneducated about it. It isn't everyone's aptitude, though, but I'm still waiting to hear more people explain it to the other people... :) I'm INFP. (INFP: Fi Ne Si Te/ ESTJ: Te Si Ne Fi)
OMG Hannah - that please can you make that podcast - as a disabled anticapitalist with a love of productivity . Shit - if you don't do this - maybe I will. Oh wait. I am bad in front of a camera...hmmm
Channel rec! Cassie Winter for productivity content through a disability lens. Absolutely devoured their content and they deserve so many more subscribers.
I would also like to subscribe to anti-capitalist disability-focused productivity content for freelancers/business owners. How do we make this? I want this.
I highly recommend divergent_design_studio on instagram as a resource for work/productivity/creativity through an anti-capitalist, neurodiverse lens. As an autistic & ADHD person she's the first person I've found who approaches those things in a way that makes sense for the way my brain and body work.
My goal for this year was to increase my knowledge on sex education/wellness and you're the cornerstone of it. My wife is sometimes stunned by the conversations I raise from topics you and other UA-camrs cover 😂
Oh an anti-capitalist disability focused productivity podcast sounds so fascinating and like it would be really helpful
yes amazing!
"we're over half way through 2021" wow RUDE hannah
Sorry for the reality check
@@patrickchambers5999 pl
was definitelyyyyy minding my business scrolling through the crocs website 😬😬😬 with this in the background and heard my name lmaoooooo YES STREAMING IS SO FUN! it helps me slow down the content treadmill/hamster wheel by removing the editing+approval process altogether
👀 popping in to say I love your live streams thanks
@@cutiepiemania45 thank you
Yesss exactly!! And your livestreams are so good and entertaining!! (I watch the VODs and I NEVER watch livestream VODs 😂)
Having just cried to my mom on the phone about my concerns that my workplace isn't going to be as accommodating of my disability upon coming back to the office full-time, that podcast sounds INCREDIBLE and exactly what I need.
Btw I'd recommend checking out Cassie Winter on here. As a chronically ill person their channel is a breath of fresh air. (Good luck navigating going back to the office, i hope it all goes okay)
@@annie_122 Thanks so much for both your good luck message and this recommendation--heading to check out Cassie Winter's channel now!! 😊
PLEASE do that podcast!!! I had a year of confronting the fact that I'm chronically ill and going from someone who felt like they were smashing life to genuinely questioning whether I could work 5 days a week at all. Hearing about organisation and productivity from that perspective would be incredible and help so much. Like, how can you be productive when you feel like you need to sleep every couple of hours? How can I be my best and smash it when my brain is full of bees? Seriously Hannah, I think that would be so great. One committed listener here already 👋
yes to all of that! feeling exactly the same right now and such a podcast would be amazing 🙌🏻
The productivity podcast through an anti-capitalist and disability lense sounds very interesting! I feel like the productivity side of UA-cam is very focussed on "get up a 5am, read 7 books a week, exercise for hours daily" which is just not feasible for most people let alone people with disabilities/chronic pain/illnesses. I would love a new perspective!
YES please some productivity+disability (and anti-capitalist, but first and foremost the disability lense) stuff!
I have not set any goals as such as I am working on some heavy stuff. Things are going well, though not as fast as I'd like them to, but that's just how it's supposed to be!
Podcast clips would be a good addition to your channel. Also you're over 900 patrons now!
oooohh you're right! It keeps dipping over and under 900 but 🤞 by the end of the year we''ll hit 1000!
Loved this! So many of us struggle with freelancing alongside disability/chronic illness so more conversations or resources would be incredible!
I personally love all long form videos because I feel like reels/tik tok has an adverse effect on my attention span. So, please don't stop the rambling. 🥺
Yes yes yes to the video podcast clips and the live streams (if you can manage it)! ❤️
Would definitely listen to that kind of productivity podcast!! My main goal for this year is just to finish my masters. So close to the end now, my dissertation is due at the end of august!! Send me all the motivation vibes pleaaase
Good luck!! I'm coming to the end of mine as well, my brain is just like....please stoopppppp haha x
good luck!!!
good luck!! i also have to turn in my degree's final project at the end of august! wishing you a lot of motivation and ~brain power to finish it!
Good luck, I've just gone throughthe process of writing my diss, so definitely empathise with what you're going through!
Good luck! I submitted mine three weeks ago and my brain felt fried the last few weeks of working on it! But it felt amazing to click submit - now I am free!
Just need to say I'm digging the subtle matching earrings with your top! Also congrats on the German! :D
Danke !
Bitte :)
I can definitely commiserate over doing papers. Such a subjective way to grade.
the anti-capitalist disability productivity podcast sounds amazing! defo something I need and would listen to all the time. would be such a refreshing view point.
Ooh I would love to listen to that productivity podcast! Tarquin Alexandra made a docu about chronic illness and the music industry that you might find interesting ^^
Ooh interesting!
I kind of miss the plant in the background. How is it doing? And could you put a little plant in the new studio background? If you like? Plants make me feel calm. :)
Hannah I would absolutely love an anti-capitalist & disability focused podcast about productivity etc! A lot of creators are all very much about the 'girl boss' mentality and 'rise & grind' whereas it would be so refreshing and lovely to de-center the capitalist elements to that! I think I would find it so useful as someone who struggles with my mental & physical health to understand actual realistic and achievable productivity aims rather than feel overwhelmed and expect too much of myself or feel like I'm not achieving as much as others.
I very much need that new podcast idea to be a real thing!
My big overarching goal was to grow my small business, but the specifics were mostly unrealistic.
Having chronic illnesses makes productivity SO HARD!
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice is not specifically productivity focused but it does take on a wide range of issues, including creating and "being productive", through the lens of disability. It was a book that really challenged me this year and got me thinking in new ways. I listened to the audiobook and would highly recommend. I also think the author (Leah Lakshmi) would be an incredible person to interview on Doing It.
we definitely don't want you to feel stressed about these videos, but even the more chatty/one take/unfiltered videos are amazing, just so like to watch your videos and love how frequently they come out!
For creative free time I don't think it's enough to free up the time. Have you ever read Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way?" You don't have to follow her entire regimen, but her idea of "Artist Dates" was genius. I would schedule time to do something specific with myself that I felt would connect me with my creative side. It was very generative and rewarding.
I haven’t read it but I have heard of that book!
@@morehannah I think you'd like dipping into it. It's full of encouragement and practical tips and resources for exploring creativity. Now that I think of it, it may be time for me to take it off the shelf again!!
You should also check out the jealous curator. She has a book called creative block that has lots of little jump starter type art exercises, might be helpful to get you going!
@@katecarpenter975 Thank you! I didn't know about her!
Podcast clips sound great! You're smashing your goals, so excited to see what's next 😊
me too!
I'm in school studying music composition and this requires me to pick a time to be creative. It is weird at first but I actually get more done by sitting down and forcing myself to write music than when I wait for inspiration to strike. The issues I have found is that when I wait for inspiration to strike it happens at inconvenient times so I never make that much progress with those ideas. But if I jot down the notes when the inspiration strikes than look at the notes during my creative time it works better for me.
omg anticapitalist/disability productivity podcast would be a HUGE yes from me. it's such a fraught space - i feel like i've used things I've learned from engaging with productivity culture to define and protect boundaries/ understand the limitations of work spaces i've been in, but it's always work to 'translate' that usefulness out of the capitalist framework/ apply it to my life as a mentally ill person, and also to avoid getting sucked in to the worst impulses of that world.
I am really good at saying "I should set this goal form me to improve this thing". Not so much at doing it X)
I set a goal, which must be 50 years ago, if I could only remember what it was I'd have a go at achieving it.
That podcast sounds great!! I would love that!
I also didn't make any resolutions in January because my chronic illness flared up really badly and I didn't know what would happen to me, but I have wanted to write a longer fanfic for ages, and for camp nanowrimo I decided to set a goal of 15,000 words in July. And, despite another flare up halfway through I'm very close to being back on track with 10,000 words so far! I'm super pleased with this, mainly because it's really fun and I'm excited for people to read it, but also because it's one of my first goals that I purposefully made achievable and reasonable, and I did it! It'll be so nice to say I've won camp nanowrimo, and that I kept my promise to myself :)
YES TO THE SECOND PODCAST!!! YES YES YES!!!!
your podcast idea sounds amazing! that's absolutely something i would like to listen to!
yes can’t wait for a podcast
I've tried to do the creative goal before and did the same thing, just sat there like, eh. However, I've found it works when I've had a specific creative project I want to do. Like, I already know what it is I want to do.
just checked my goals and i actually got to do so much already! of course a lot of things still didn't happen, but at the beginning of the year i had no faith i would be able to check even one thing off the list. but i did it!!! And also, your podcast idea is great. I am all for finding a way to be productive and proud of the life i lead without falling into the capitalist guilt of not doing enough.
Please make that podcast! Sounds like something I've always wanted to listen to
Woaw I LOVE the podcast idea! I need that in my life
Hey Hannah :) A note on the "content creation hamster wheel" (love that name): I've been a blogger for 5 years and I'm relaunching youtube TOMORROW! I'm excited, but the reason it didn't work out before was because I felt like you. From 5 years I've blogging I've learnt to batch content when I'm feeling creative, so that I can rest when I'm not. I can film 2-3 videos in a day, or write 4-5 articles when I'm feeling inspired. That way if I don't feel like creating then I just don't for a while, but my audience never realise because there's always content going out :)
yes to the anti-capitalist disability podcast! all I see online is about hustling/grinding, founding your own businesses and making lots of money. I know many people with chronic illnesses, mental issues etc. (myself included) that just can’t keep up with that. we feel bad for things we often can’t change, when it’s actually the system that’s massively flawed.
Well done for doing so well on so many of your goals!! One of my goals for this year was quit smoking (I didn’t count it as a resolution because I wasn’t planning to quit on Jan 1st). I got in contact with the stop smoking team at my local hospital. Quit at the end of January with the patches and have now done 6 months of not smoking and 2 weeks without any nicotine replacement!!
My other goal was to start a business/etsy shop. Which is going decidedly less well but I am slowly making progress :)
Yes yes please for a podcast for stuff through a disability lens! Love that idea
Loving the new studio and excited for more studio content. 💛💛
For the creativity one, I agree with you can’t block time and just say time to be creative! BUT you could carve out time during the week whether it is an hour or half a day where it is free time to do whatever your heart desires. Sometimes that might be vacuuming, reading a book, working on a new project idea, whatever you want! It builds in time for flexibility without the daunting task of it must be something creative! Naturally creative things will happen sometimes.
Keep Doing what you're doing; you are doing great.
I also didn't write down an actual list, but I had things I wanted to do;
- move (did that)
- learn to sew (started but slow)
- keep exercising (stopped that)
- improve my Dutch and start speaking (did that)
- graduate from my Master's (hopefully doing that soon)
- get another tattoo (cant travel due to covid)
- make friends (still working on that)
- do more creative things (haven't really done that)
I would love that podcast!
with the creative time-my goal has been to do a creative hobby a little bit every day. right now i’m learning guitar, but i’m hoping to incorporate some creative writing soon. my sister just started doing a lot of pottery and loves it. kind of like exercise, it can be a good way to detach and reset if you have the time for it
I love these videos, they inspire me and help me realize how I want to work/live life ☺️❤️
I'd love to see a plant and a back lightning again in the background, it looked really good :) Love you !
Megan Rhiannon’s bullet journal stuff is all productivity for autistic people and it’s brilliant x
I think creativity is so much like sexual drive:
you can’t force it
it pops up randomly
you need to be fairly happy, healthy and not stressed in order for it to thrive
so treat creativity time like sex, have blocks of time where you are open to it during the week, but it doesnt mean you have to. if you are in the mood - great! if not, all good.
maybe an hour before work or an hour in the evening most days. then after doing it a few times you find your rhythm and what/when works for you. what turns it on? what environment do you need?
good luck!
Yes ommgggg I had this epiphany a few months ago and wrote about it in my newsletter and it’s just so true!!
@@morehannah ill have to go back and read that newsletter!
Thanks for sharing Hannah! Would love to listen to that podcast ! Would be interested to listen with the lens of how other areas of ability affect productivity/organisation too e.g. mental illness and neurodiversity (if that wasn’t already included within what you meant by disability) :)
oooh the idea of a Patreon scrapbook is so cool! Or even a zine? Like, the partons collaborating on a zine of all types of art (writing, visual art, photography, etc) and articles centred around sex & relationships sounds awesome.
I would LOVE that second podcast !!
You look lovely in the thumbnail!!
A big shout-out to your editor! I've just made my first video: it was only 1 minute long and editing it nearly killed me - I can't imagine editing hours of footage every week and consistently producing such a polished result.
Can you be creative at the snap of your fingers? Well, kinda yes, having a creative professions stimulated me to learn some tips and tricks on that. Yeah, sometimes you sparkle with ideas, and sometimes you feel sloppy, but you still need to get work done.) The hardest part in this state of mind is to actually start doing something.
Allocating time for creativity is a good strategy, I guess it didn't work because you had no plan for this "creativity sessions". So you've got this dump of huge ideas, you can try brainstorm some of these ideas during these creative time, play around it, try to mind-map it, learn something about this idea, so step by step it will be more real. Or may be you can brainstorm how to fit this amount of projects in your schedule - just make a list of things and choose what sparkles your creativity this week.
There're a lot of technics you can use to boost your creativity in the moment:
1) making some restrictions for this session (don't use specific words/colors, trying to write down 10 ways to use some ordinary item you have - like watch or a bow tie, etc).
2) Try out different brainstorming techniques. Sometimes it helps to mind map, or draw something abstract, and sometimes you just need to start writing down everything that comes to mind, even: "Nothing comes to mind, what should I write about? Do I have to do it for another 15 minutes? How do I feel about it?"
3) Make it a party! If there're people who sparkle your creativity, try to include them in these sessions, and may be together it'll work much better. A lot of times when I struggle with some idea at work, I just need to chat about it with my colleagues, to hear their opinions and questions.
4) And if you really want to bring it to another level, you might check out TRIZ or TIPS (it's called Theory of inventive problem solving in English) - there're some practical methods on how to find a creative solution to your problem. It teaches you to turn your ideas around by formulating the contradiction in your problem (for example, you need more content to earn money, but you need less content so you can have some free time), several ideal results of this contradictions (for example - content creates itself, creating more content doesn't take more time, etc). This theory was designed for solving engineering problems, but some of its principles can be applied to any problem.
I hope some of this tips will help you you!
I would recommend going through the book The Artist Way, or some kind of a workbook. These things help me structure my creative time, or boost my creativity and then I'm able to do unstructured creative time too. :D
I would love to see podcast vids as a video!! :))
Please make that podcast a thing. I would love that.
Dr. Devon Price released a book recently called "Laziness does not exist" which definitely looks at productivity through an anti-capitalist, disability lens. I haven't finished it yet but I'm enjoying it so far. I don't think it's looking at productivity in exactly the way you're suggesting but it might be a good jumping off point :)
I’m autistic and a scientist (researching sensory processing in autism) so I do a lot of reading about autism and disability and capitalism etc just in my own time and when researching and finding other things for work. Sounds like an incredibly fun chat! If you ever invite other people onto your chat podcast I would love to chat! (Tbh just chat anyway it doesn’t have to be a podcast 😂)
Sounding Swiss is actually a compliment (coming from a Swiss person)
Hannah saying she wants to get off the hamster wheel and then talking about considering doing things on top of what she's already doing.
Me: No, don't do things on top of what you already do. Replace! Replace! Replace! Make yourself some spare time. Doing more is not the answer.
And yes! That podcast idea sounds amazing! (I would love if it could be published here on this channel, as I easily miss things on other platforms. But that is maybe just me.)
I have a list, where I write down creative stuff I wanna do, which I then pick from whenever I have the time & energy to be creative. Might be an idea for your creative time slot?
All i can say is that I am really really jealous of you being able to enjoy your tennis 🎾 please stay safe and enjoy your reading love your Australia fan John xxx
I will listen to the disability podcast!
Love how the earrings match the top :))
Backdrop looks ace!
Can't believe that over a decade later people are still just referring to Windows machines as PCs like Macs aren't PCs.
maybe for your creative free time goal you could schedule a no-pressure creative hobby, something that isn't content-oriented or than you don't intend to ever see the light of day. from memory this goal was about nurturing creativity w/out directly capitalising on it
Would be interesting to hear if you have a List B for goals after you get pregnant or are you planning for as long as possible to run your same week and goals?
Honestly I've been using Premiere for yonks and I still can only do the basics and a bit of colour correction maybe. There's sooo much I don't know! ... and don't even start me on After Effects.
For creative free-time maybe you could set a loose goal of every week following your impulses. For example if you feel like drawing one evening you could make a point of actually doing it
Hi Hannah on the topic of being able to get off the Hamster wheel, I work for FedEx who currently have a global program on DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion) and I got the chance to speak with a Seinor executive for Europe about how to better educate and inform internal staff and promote externally all the great work / effort being done by the company in Europe. Sufficient to say your skills and abilities were sold big time. So should you get a call from FedEx with a job offer.... Your welcome 😜
fellow freelancer her: I wanna hear the podcast!
Also: I follow my creative bursts as they come if I can push around the things that I have to do that day :-)
Well I didn't know I needed it, but I'd really watch/listen/read organizational content with that anticapitalist and disability lense. Like... Yes please!!
What about setting 'creative free time' almost like a budget? So like give yourself X amount of time per week/day that when you feel inspired, you have X amount of time to spend on it that day/week etc? No idea if that makes sense but feels like it might work?
Can you tell me what eye makeup you're wearing?! Gorgeous!!
Could we see what your office at home looks like now with all your stuff at the office?
Pretty much the same but with Dan’s work from home set up taking up all the space now lol
Oh it's quite funny, I am a German who started watching you to understand English better and now you are learning German.
Ich wünsche dir ganz viel Glück und Erfolg beim Deutsch lernen, lass dich von "der, die, dass" nicht unterkriegen.
Might be a bad idea but I have always wondered what would happen if you treated UA-cam like a podcast and posted videos in seasons instead of weekly to allow for creative breaks. Has anyone tried this?
hannah would you be interested in a part time researcher? bc my lord that job sounds fascinating :D hiring someone like a uni student would also mean having access to that database and therefore tons of academic articles. Might be good for someone to do 8hrs a week or something!
As someone who also creates UA-cam videos I can totally relate to the content creation hamster wheel. If anyone has any tips for dealing with this, please share!🙏
Stop being so good at everything! lol I know you're not an Intuitive personality type, because you're not messy enough. :P I'm guessing ESTJ, because that the way you bitches are and I'm ALWAYS JEALOUS. The personality type functions are fun, once you get into them. I'd love to see you do more with that, because people are so uneducated about it. It isn't everyone's aptitude, though, but I'm still waiting to hear more people explain it to the other people... :) I'm INFP. (INFP: Fi Ne Si Te/ ESTJ: Te Si Ne Fi)
Everyone who doesn't follow you on Instagram is going to think you PLAYED in Wimbledon now.
I'm obsessed with your earrings where are they from? ☺️
As someone who went back to do their masters, I wish I did a short course first and realise that it would give me so much anxiety.
Why did you choose to learn German? I couldn’t remember or find the first video you talked about learning German.
Omg where are those earrings from soo gorgeous
You look so pretty here
Perhaps a sexy top tip series on tiktok/ reels
OMG Hannah - that please can you make that podcast - as a disabled anticapitalist with a love of productivity .
Shit - if you don't do this - maybe I will. Oh wait. I am bad in front of a camera...hmmm
Do you miss old chair and room that you did your videos from yet?
Remember your two week break, Hannah.
Channel rec! Cassie Winter for productivity content through a disability lens. Absolutely devoured their content and they deserve so many more subscribers.
I would also like to subscribe to anti-capitalist disability-focused productivity content for freelancers/business owners. How do we make this? I want this.
I very like the idea of a hub for sex educators! (also the podcast)
I highly recommend divergent_design_studio on instagram as a resource for work/productivity/creativity through an anti-capitalist, neurodiverse lens. As an autistic & ADHD person she's the first person I've found who approaches those things in a way that makes sense for the way my brain and body work.
My goal for this year was to increase my knowledge on sex education/wellness and you're the cornerstone of it. My wife is sometimes stunned by the conversations I raise from topics you and other UA-camrs cover 😂
What is your definition of anti capitalism?
I'd recommend Cassie Winter here on UA-cam for Chronic Illness work/productivity things 🥰 you could possibly collab?
I hate to be the guy but with your following, your goal in the next month would be to get that onlyfriends page started!!! 😍Sign us all up…..