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#360 Finding Motivation to Return to the Pottery Studio
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In this episode of 'Shaping Your Pottery with Nic Torres', explore ways to regain your motivation for pottery when you're feeling disconnected from your studio. Acknowledging the commonality of such phases, Nic shares personal experiences and tips from Annie Christbergs about overcoming the lack of desire to create. Key advice includes allowing yourself grace for not always being in the studio mood, setting achievable goals like making a small number of pottery pieces or spending a few minutes in the studio daily, making studio access as easy as possible, and setting deadlines to create a sense of urgency. The episode is designed to encourage potters to ease back into their creative processes without overwhelming themselves.
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Finding Motivation for Pottery
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what to do if you don't feel like getting into the studio. What is up, shaping nation? This is Nick Torres here, and for those that don't know me, it is my mission to help potters like yourselves cover their own unique voice with their pottery. But sometimes, we don't feel like making pottery.
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And that is okay, but what can you do to get that groove back into the studio? You see, recently I was scrolling through Instagram when I came across one of Annie Kreisberg's posts and she was talking all about this. And if you want to learn more about Annie, I did the interview with her all about how to create texture for your pottery.
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It's episode number 293. Go check it out.
Advice from Annie Kreisberg
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It's a really great episode.
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But back to my question, what do you do if you don't feel like getting back into the studio? So like I said earlier, Annie gave some really great advice on her own Instagram where she was talking about how to get back in the studio and what to do if you don't feel like getting in the studio because we all have those days, maybe weeks, months, even a year sometimes where we don't feel like getting into the studio. We like what we're making, but we don't feel like getting into the studio, you know,
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Other things are bothering us. We have our job, we have, you know, our kids to raise or something else is just getting into the way of getting into the studio and sometimes a little bit painful again to studio because, you know, you want to be making the pottery, but it's a bit painful to make the pottery because, you know, it's going to take a while and you know that if you just if you get started, something's probably going to be interrupted right away.
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And that is completely
Self-Kindness and Goal Setting
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fine. So here's what here's my best advice and some things that I have done and some things I've learned from other partners as well. So the first thing that you need to do and I believe this is the probably the biggest one is to give yourself a little great.
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You know, it's OK to not always get into the studio and you're going to have these days where you're not going to feel like getting into the studio. And that's completely fine. You have to give yourself a little grace for these days or you're not feeling it because if you're not giving yourself grace for those days, then you're just going to keep hounding yourself and you're going to end up feeling more worse about it because you're not getting into the studio. So that's tip number one that I believe everybody should do. We should just give herself a little grace if we're not going to get ourselves in the studio.
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One of the tips that Annie gave was to set goals, set goals to make into the studio. You know, one of her and his goals is to make, I believe it was six mugs a day, I think, or a week, something like that.
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And that was one of her goals. And she said that she hasn't hit the goal yet. But like I said earlier, she gives herself grace that she doesn't hit that goal. And that helps her with being able to get into the studio today because she has that goal that she wants to cheat. And now.
Creating Habits and Reducing Barriers
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I love that. I love the idea of setting a goal. But sometimes we set too big of a goal where it makes it almost impossible to reach. So I recommend doing a very small goal. The goal could be just sitting in the studio. That's it. Just simply sitting in the studio. The goal could be spending five minutes playing with the clay each day.
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for 30 days, for 90 days, whatever. And just sitting in the studio for five minutes, maybe it's drawing as well. You don't have to just play with the clay. You can draw the clay and just start getting inspiration that way. Sometimes these tiny goals are better than the bigger goals because that's going to help you build that habit of getting back into the studio.
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Which brings me into my next point of making it as easy as possible to get into the studio. You see, when I wasn't feeling like getting into the studio a lot, what I did was I made it as easy as possible to self. So right when I woke up right after I let my dogs out and I brushed my teeth, I went directly into my studio, didn't touch my phone, didn't touch anything else. And I just went directly into my studio.
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to start making pottery, I start throwing on the wheel and I start doing all these different things simply by waking up and going straight there. And you can do some certain things as well, you know, maybe you you work the the the night shift or something like that and you don't have that ability to wake up and go directly to the the pottery studio and start making things. Another thing you could do is to find a way to make it where it's directly making pottery directly in front of you.
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at any moment, at any moment's notice. You know, you can be walking through your house or you can be walking or you can be driving from work to the pottery studio to the community pottery studio. You know, take a different route, maybe to hit that different that that to be able to go to that studio or to make it right in front of you so you make it as easy as possible.
Using Deadlines for Motivation
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Another good tip that Annie gave was to set deadlines and I love this one very much because we all know that having a deadline will actually help us get a little bit into the studio a little bit easier because you know we know if we
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hit, we have to hit that deadline that we're going to get it done. You know, a lot of times we're procrastinating, but sometimes we just need a deadline for when we're going to complete a certain project, a certain thing for our pottery. And that's going to spur us to get into the studio a little bit easier because our motivation is going to be up because we know we have to hit that deadline.
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And I think that is a very excellent way to start making getting into the studio.
Strategies Recap and Listener Engagement
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So here's a little bit of a recap so far or of this, a way to get into the studio. So number one. Is to give yourself grace, give yourself grace that it's OK to not always get into studio and it's OK to have those times we're not getting the studio.
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Number two is to set goals for yourself. It can be small goals, it can be big goals, but set goals for yourself for what you want to do. Number three is to make it as easy as possible to get into the studio. For example, I would wake up and go directly to the studio upon waking. Number four is to set deadlines.
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And so those are the four tips that I have if you have been struggling to get in studio. And I hope you guys enjoy this episode and I'll see you guys in the next one. Hey, thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. If you would like to send me your own voicemail and have questions about pottery or finding your voice, don't be afraid to send me that. You can go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash voicemail to send me your own voice message. And I'll do my best to answer the question.
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You can also look in the show notes and it'll be there. I hope you guys enjoy this episode and I'll see you guys in the next one.