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If you’ve ever said, “I just don’t feel like creating today,” this conversation challenges the assumption hiding inside that sentence. We’re talking about consistent creativity, deep work, and the unglamorous skill that separates people who finish from people who only plan. We connect the dots between professional standards in everyday work and the way we often treat our creative goals like optional hobbies. A key theme is the shift from amateur habits to a professional mindset: Steven Kotle...

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  Hey guys and welcome back to another episode of Change Wired Podcast. My name is Angela Sharina, I'm your host, I'm your partner in personal and collective transformation, in personal growth, absolutely obsessed with unlocking, using more of our potential every single day, so together we could live the most extraordinary, biggest version of our lives, a little bit more alive, a little bit bolder and brighter every single day. I'm also a certified master health, sleep, nutrition, recovery, fitness, body

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  transformation, executive and self-actualization coach, and again, just absolutely obsessed with humanity, with our potential and what beauty and amazement we can create in the world. And today, guys, I wanna talk about doing the work, being our most creative selves consistently. And specifically speaking about consistency, a client of mine asked me, Angela, you seem to be so consistent with your creative output, like you write blogs every day, you

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  write podcasts, videos, and it seems to just be ongoing, non-stop. Like, how do you do that? One of my goals is to become, the client asked, one of my goals is to become consistently creative, like get back to my creative writing and my deep work on a consistent basis. And some days, I just don't feel like it. So how do you do that? How do you get that consistent with your creativity? And guys, I wrote a whole blog about it today, which helps me

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  to then make this podcast a lot more, a lot more clear, structured with a, with some framework, something useful than you can put into practice to, for example, get consistently creative. I recently, well, actually this morning, looked up my Apple podcast stats, and it said that I, till this day, made 1,694 podcast episodes, and it's been going on, to give you an idea, for about eight years. Till this day, what is it, September 15th

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  or 16th, September 15th, 2026, I wrote 867 daily blogs. I've actually been writing for more than a decade, but consistently, every single day, that's been a practice for me for 867 days in a row, since I made this decision on May 1st, 2024. On my Instagram, I have 6,160 posts, on my YouTube channel, 3,000 something videos, and I just keep going.

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  So how do I do that? How do I get consistently creative? And when the client asked this question, after our call, after our session, it made me remember reading about one writer's process, and he was talking about how he started in newspaper journalism, and he had to deliver an article every day, like no exceptions. Whether he felt like it or not, whether he had a story he was passionate and inspired by or not, you just show up,

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  because that's what you're paid off. As a newspaper journalist, you are paid to produce work for the daily newspaper. Professional athletes have their seasons, competitions, deadlines, championships. Have you guys ever thought about this fact, that when an athlete prepares for Olympics, an event that some might attend once in their life, they, A, get ready for it with their consistent workouts and their consistent trainings, but can you just think about this fact, that they have to show up as their best self, or as close to that as possible, on that specific day, on that specific time, in that specific location?

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  And nobody cares whether they feel like it or not, whether they slept well or not, whether they got sick or not, you show up. The date arrives, you go. Every rep, every workout you put in beforehand is part of the job you signed up for.

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  "The amateur plays by mood. The professional plays regardless of how he feels." Steven Pressfield, Becoming Pro, I think it's actually Turning Pro, need to correct this quote on my blog, but yes, "The amateur plays by mood. The professional plays regardless of how he feels." And it also reminded me of this phrase by Leila Hormozzi, she, Hormozzi couple, she is a great CEO, and, well, not an entrepreneur, but with her husband, they have a portfolio of companies. She runs most of them, specifically the people part. The quote that I love from

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  her, "Fuck the mood," sorry, the profanity, "fuck the mood, follow the plan." And that speaks to this idea that when you decide to do a thing, a project, when you need to deliver something, you don't negotiate, you stop negotiation. That's what being professional or having professional mindset is all about. Amateurs let no mood, bad days, allow energy dictate how they show up. Professionals don't do that. And then I also said to my client, because he would tell me, oh, you know, in my work, I do the presentations, and I show

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  up for important meetings, and for my team, etc. And I told him, you show up for your important meetings, you deliver presentations or pitches to investors, it doesn't matter how you feel, you prepare and you show up. You might not feel like it, but you don't wait to feel like it, do you? You schedule it and you go. So what's different about the creative work you keep saying you want to do more of? The only difference, guys, it's your attitude, it's your mindset that you decided to have. Amateurs have the luxury,

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  allow themselves luxury to wait for inspiration. Professionals don't do that, whether they're creatives, writers, singers, architects, athletes. Professionals don't allow themselves luxury to wait for inspiration.

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  "At the job that pays you, showing up became non-negotiable. The work that you do, what you're hired for, you don't ask yourself every morning, should I go, should I, do I feel like going to work right now? No, you just go. And when you need to deliver that presentation, that report, whatever that is, you show up. That's what you're paid for. And nobody asks you how you're gonna feel, and you don't ask yourself how you feel, you just do it. The only difference is your attitude."

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  "At the job that pays you, showing up became non-negotiable. That's how you keep your job. What if you made your creative work non-negotiable too? Could it really be that simple?" I once heard Steven Kotler, who writes a lot about flow, who is one of the leading researchers on flow state, he's also a prolific, award-winning writer, great athlete. I once heard him talk about how he deliberately creates bad conditions, poor sleep, exhausted from a workout, doing the work at some odd hour, he'll rehearse a speech or sit down

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  to write anyway, on purpose, in the worst possible state, because, that's how he thinks about it. Because if he can do the work there, in the worst possible situation and state, every other day is gonna be a breeze. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the quote from him, "When the pain starts, that's when the real work begins." Anyone can do it when they feel like it, guys, only professionals do it, no matter what. And professional, it's not whether you're paid for it or not, I'm not paid for my creative work, but it brings

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  me a lot of the work that I'm paid for.

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  Neil Gaiman, another award-winning writer, schedules his writing as a meeting. He sits at his desk and he's allowed to produce zero words. What he's not allowed to do is anything else. Write or do nothing, binary option. These are the only two options.

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  For me, guys, here is how I was able to make literally thousands of podcasts and getting closer to a thousand of daily blog posts and produce thousands of videos. Every day, there is a block on my calendar. One hour for writing.

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  My best time is morning and I love mornings for my writing. But sometimes I also allow myself these days to not be that perfect. And if the morning, if in the morning I have a client's meeting to deliver, which needs to be scheduled super early, or there is a workshop, or there is a congress I need to speak at, or some event, then I schedule my writing for some other time. Even if it's like 8:00 PM before my bedtime, the worst time for my creative work. You know, I still do it.

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  I don't allow myself to skip it. I can write garbage, the most boring paragraph I've ever produced, but showing up at my keyboard for that hour is non-negotiable. The same as showing up for a client's session or my most important meeting.

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  Another funny quote, funny, I just love it. "I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately, it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp." Somerset Maugham, as quoted by Stephen Pressfield in "The War of Art."

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  Pressfield's point goes even deeper, guys, something that I also want to talk to you about. The professional mindset, yes, it doesn't wait for inspiration or the right mood or the right conditions. You set the time and you allow yourself no way out. Just like you don't wait for inspiration or allow yourself a way out to do your job. You sit at your desk at the same time every day. But the quote speaks about something else. It speaks about this beauty of a routine, any routine. Your body and your brain optimize for whatever you do at the same time every day.

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  Go to bed at the same hour with a good wind-down routine and you get sleepy often on the same time. Eat at the same time every day and your stomach, and that's been confirmed in research on animals or humans, eat at the same time every day and your stomach starts producing digestive juices and different digestive enzymes before the food even arrives to get your stomach warmed up for that food. Train at the same hour, show up for your workout at the same hour and adrenaline and other chemicals in your brain and body show up early to meet you for your workout. Write at the same hour every day

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  and the creative chemicals start flowing before you've typed a word. So what the quote talks about here, "I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately, it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp." What it talks about, if you write at the same hour, if you do creative work at the same hour, if you create routine for your creativity, your creativity will show up, your muse will show up.

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  If you're struggling with consistent creative output, guys, here is a formula that's worked for centuries for athletes, artists, writers, poets, musicians.

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  Set a date with your muse on your calendar. The same way you would schedule your breakfast, your meeting, your work. Set a date, consistent date, right? The second one, show up for the date like a professional shows up for the work they're paid for. Imagine you're paid for it and you can't skip it. Show up for your creative work like professional. Ignore your mood, ignore your energy, put in the reps anyway. Fuck the mood, follow the plan. Ignore your mood, ignore your energy, put in the reps. The muse will show up, the reps will sharpen your skill,

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  the work will get better and a lot of good things will follow from that. We are creative beings, we are meant to create. So what is your creative output? What calls you to create? What do you want to put into existence on a regular basis? What is your creative outlet, right? Show up for it, show up for it with a professional mindset like you show up for the job you're paid for.

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  So, the challenging question and your homework. When will you set your consistent date with your muse? When is the muse date on your calendar? The one that you don't skip, whether you are in the mood, in the energy, had good sleep or didn't. When is that date with your muse, guys?

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  I hope you found this podcast useful and inspirational and also very practical. Now, the next step is to set that date for your creative work and treat it like you would your job, something non-negotiable. On the side note, please share, review this podcast episode so it reaches more people and helps more people let's together help more people to be more creative. So we create the biggest, most audacious, boldest, brightest version of our life. And also, if you need help with things like being consistently creative

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  or getting into the best physical, mental shape of your life for the rest of your life, you can schedule one-on-one session with me. Self-actualization, fitness, nutrition, body transformation, body of my transformation, stress, sleep. I'm also a certified sleep coach, so schedule that session where you get your plan and I'm going to support you to implement the plan for the next two weeks. So the link is in the show notes. What else? Please do support our show with three, five, $10 a month, which will motivate me to do even better work. The link is also in the show notes. And what else? Till next time, guys.

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  Schedule that date with your muse. You are born to be creative, but your creativity needs a routine, just like your work needs scheduling. Scheduling. Anyhow, guys, been a long podcast. Thank you for tuning in, thank you for listening. Check out the links in the show notes. Until next time, keep growing and keep showing up for the date with your muse.