The Room with Jey Geethan

Hello Team Jey friends,

Today we are going to talk about a topic that we feel might be of particular interest to artists and writers. We know that artists go through a block now and then. Their creative juices seem to be at their worst, and they would feel like there's nothing left for them to come up with. Most writers call this writer’s block, and artists call this a creative block. Today we are going to talk about how to deal with this block and come up with strategies to beat this block out of the way.

What's the real reason?

It's always better to understand what's going on in the conscious mind to really understand the reasons for the block. For most of us, it can be either a directionless day, a week without motivation, or probably a month without real goals. When one is directionless, there is less motivation for you to work and come up with your best work. So it's better to understand if the motivation is lacking to come up with solutions. There could be other reasons as well: A perfectionist attitude or a fear of failure. Though these reasons could be much more complex, it is necessary to understand what is really happening within you to come up with the next steps.

Change your goals

Most artists have some goal set for them every day. Like writers could say 5 to 10 pages every day, and musicians could say that they come up with a melody or beat every single day. When you are blocked, it is better to come up with a goal that triggers the win for the day but may be without the high quality that you expect to be done. Like write a few pages, or come up with a set of beats without the expectation of high quality that you usually expect from yourself. But it is okay to be with this because crossing the target is much more important than being stuck without any progress. You can always mark these pages or song sections and come back and change it later.

Changing your physical environment

Sometimes instead of going through the same environment, a change of scene could do the trick. Like, write from a new place. Go to a coffee shop, wear your headphones, and come up with a new beat. This works most of the time because your brain synapses connect differently in a new environment, and this would give a new boost to your creativity and ensure that you produce something.

New collabs

Always have a backup buddy with whom you can collaborate during your down times so that somebody else helps you come back to your usual creative routine. A new person in your creative process could also come up with new ideas, and they might just push you to new limits as well. This is the most important reason that you need a collab buddy.

Get into an online community

Always build your support systems so that when you are on the down low, there are people who will help you come back up. That's exactly one of the reasons we have built The Room. If you are reading this, we encourage you to join us and build your own support system.

Conclusion

Remember, the blocks are always temporary. It is part of the process, and every artist goes through the down times. Understand that this frame of mind will change, and it is better to embrace it than resist it. Also, doing the above techniques will help you get out of the block as quickly as possible. Cheers to your creativity!

Most of us hate the word "failure". But there's no better word than failure because "failures help us to understand more about success", as Jey used to say. Many of the successful people in this world have had failures, many times. More than they could count. But that's what makes them successful because every time they fail, they learn why they failed and try to do things better.

Here are some of the key things we have learnt from failure:

Failure is part of the process

As part of Team Jey, we have failed more than we could think. We have always failed when we tried to do something new and it didn't work. We have had spectacular failures. Be it in marketing, sales, or even support. But that's just part of the process. We learn from each failure and we keep track of notes why certain things failed so that others could read and learn from them. Of course, those notes are internal as of now. But we may publish them to the world to see!

Failure Muscle

Since failure is part of life, we try to build a resistance to feeling sad when we fail. That feeling of sadness is often replaced with an intellectual process where we try to ascertain why certain efforts failed. Thus we create a habit out of failure so that we don't feel sad or frightened of failure. Creating this failure muscle is super important. But that said, we don't romanticize failure either.

Successes from failures

We also keep track of our successes that arose from failures. That way, we know if we are on the right track. Even small wins are important for us so that we know that we are getting some positive feedback from the process. Remember it is a long process and we need to carry our failures before we see some successes.

Hopefully this post was as useful to you as it was to us. Leave a comment to share your thoughts!

Everybody wants to have a wonderful life. But most of the people settle for the mediocre things in life, thus creating a mediocre life. It's not easy for everyone to achieve their dreams in their lives, but it is in fact easier to get closer to your dreams step by step. Imagine that your dream is 100 steps of stairs, and you are standing at the bottom. Imagine if your favorite movie is playing on a big screen at the stop of the stairs, and from the bottom, you can see a small-sized picture. And you want to get to the top before the movie ends so that you can watch your favorite movie on a very big screen. This analogy is exactly what Jey Geethan told us the other day about dreams. While we are walking up the stairs, there is a real threat that the movie could end before we ever reach the top. That said, the most important strategy for our lives should be to optimize how soon we can walk the steps, and it’s not about reaching the topmost step, but about getting to a comfortable altitude so that the movie is bigger, and you get to watch the majority of the movie on a big screen. Even if you don't reach the topmost step before the movie ends, it is okay as long as you climb faster to reach a comfortable viewing location. Hope this analogy is helpful to model your mind.

These are some steps that you could use to step your life:

1. Define what a dream life exactly means to you
2. Break it down and create tangible goal posts
3. Trust that you can build up your skills and potential to reach those goals
4. Take action every day
5. Adapt based on feedback

We are sharing what we had learned with our session with Jey Geethan the other day. Share and comment your thoughts!

I have been following Mr. Jey Geethan for a long time on social media and now I was trying to write a book. I was always hesitant and never picked up my laptop to write. But reading some articles and podcasts from Jey helped to overcome the initial block and now I wrote my first TEN PAGES!!!!!

I am so excited and I just wanted to share!!!!1

Everybody loves success, but I hate it. Crazy, huh? But that's true. Jey Geethan has taught us one thing really well—never get complacent when you are successful because times change, and whatever worked for you to be successful can become obsolete in the next few years.

Also, success makes people overconfident. They let the success become more important than what it is. Success means that your strategy worked and you are reaping its benefits. But that doesn't mean the success will stay with you forever.

Success can cause people to lose their guard and thus blind them to any failures that could come their way. Most successful people believe their past success is a shield against future failures, but that's not the case. We know too many successful people who have gone bankrupt.

Failures, now there's a teacher. Life's game isn't about avoiding them but learning from them. They're the ones that show you the ropes, that guide you towards success. But success? It's a different story. It can lull you into a false sense of security, leaving you unprepared for the next challenge. 

So, should we glorify failures and dampen successes? Absolutely not. Let us be accurate and celebrate success—for 15 minutes. And we will keep learning from failures.