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Speaker: Hey everybody, real quick. The first step to discovering your voice is finding what you actually like to make with your pottery. That's why I created a quick start guide so that you can start discovering what you like to make with pottery without having to give up experimenting on your pottery. Now let's get started. Go to shapingyourpottery .com forward slash ace to get this free guide.
Speaker: Do you love pottery and are ready to stand out from the crowd? Then you're in the right place. Welcome to Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres where we help you discover your own unique voice. Now let's get started.
Speaker: What is up, everybody? And welcome to Shaping Your Powder with Nick Torres. In this episode, I'm going to be talking about the power of lists and why it's important to kind of make lists to help you out. In the recent interview I did with Dita Murt, she said that she makes lists and lists are something that really help her throughout the day and just helps her keep everything organized.
Speaker: And I'm gonna tell you why that is kind of important. Why it is very important for you to not only discover your voice, but to also keep things in track, keep things on track so that you aren't so flustered, aren't so overwhelmed all the time. Making a list can be very, very, very, very beneficial, especially if you are very scatterbrained. A lot of us tend to be kind of scatterbrained where we are kind of like
Speaker: a bird or a dog and we are we see one thing with oh I'm gonna go try that and then we see another thing oh I'm gonna try that but if we keep a list of things that we're trying to do it keeps our mind and our thoughts very very organized because sometimes we're very scatterbrained like I said we're
Speaker: We have short attention spans, which is not a bad thing, but sometimes it can be very difficult to get things done if we're not trying to accomplish things from our list. So, how do you write a list? Well, I think there are two different ways to write a list.
Speaker: The first list is what needs to be completed in a certain amount of time. I hear a lot of potters, they are always, they're always trying to meet a deadline by a certain amount of time. So they write out a list, it's good to write out a list of what things need to be done first, what things need to be done first. Like for example, if you have a show at the end of the month, you're trying to sell your pottery at the end of the month,
Speaker: you need things to get done in a certain order. So the list can consist of make the pottery, trim it, and then glaze and take pictures and then sell. That's a very simple list, five things that you only need to do. And you just basically check off each one until you have everything made.
Speaker: The second list that I think everyone should do, whether you are Scatterbrain or whatever, everyone should do this list, is making a list of things that you really, really like. It could be anything, a list of anything that you really like.
Speaker: especially for pottery, you have one for pottery and then one for just things that you like just in the world in general, what your eye is catching you to. The reason why I think you should do this is because oftentimes we skip this step of what we like, what is our attention drawn to, what is something that we like. And the more we can research that first and just hone in on that for like just a few moments,
Speaker: The more our voice is going to pop out further, it's going to show up a lot better because we're taking that time to sit down and really write down what we like. The list can change, but it's good to write down what we like now. So that way we can go further on those things that we like.
Speaker: Thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery. If you have questions about developing your voice or just pottery questions in general, send them to me my way. Go to shapingyourpottery .com forward slash contact to send me your questions.
