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Hey guys, David here. This is my podcast, the follow your art podcast. And it's gonna go on as long as I'm on this follow your art journey. That's the idea. I'm not sure if it's gonna work out in terms of the totality of what I'm experiencing and where this goes next. But for me, I want to engage people in a new way, right? I want to share with you what I'm experiencing, and how to go about this in my own way, right, personally. Speaking to that, I love to chat with people, I love to engage with people in different ways. And if that means I get to interview somebody, great. If not, if this is a solo thing, I'm not sure. My point is, this first episode, I want it kind of revolving around, just getting started. Because that's, that's what I'm doing here. Right, I'm just getting started with this podcast.

I'm just getting started with a huge, immense journey that I had no idea I would be taking on, in terms of the scope of everything that's in front of me, and everything that's around me, and behind me and the massive multitude of options that keep presenting themselves to me that I know I need to stay in touch with in terms of staying grounded. Which is to say, I've got to keep updating, right, if I if I, if I tomorrow, have new options that weren't available today, and certain options that were available to me today that are no longer available to me tomorrow. If I'm acting on the information I'm just getting in the moment tomorrow, that yesterday, was in effect for me, I'm not current with what's actually going on for me, in my experience. I'm not current with what's actually happening in the present moment, right.

We talk about being in the now and being in the present moment and being present to what's happening. What we're really saying, is updating in your nervous system, what's actually happening, hat's actually going on. And to respond to what was yesterday is to respond to something that does not exist today, right? The options have changed, or maybe there are options that were present yesterday that are also present today, but they're not present in the same way, because now you've changed. Now you're moving forward.

So what does that mean, for just getting started? I've had the pleasure of many awesome, awesome intellectual mentors. And one of them, this guy Jamie smart was with me on the road for a short period of my life, but a significant period of my life when I was experiencing a lot of inner and outer chaos and turmoil. And, and that's not to say that at all that is gone, but that I've learned different ways of managing the storms that face your inner self. And he speaks to this idea that if you're willing to take the next step, right, if all you are is willing to take the next step, that's all you need, right? Because say you can't see the whole road in front of you, or you can't see everything, the totality of all that exists right in front of you, because there's just too much information, there's too much stuff going on, you only need enough know-how to know how to take just this next, this next step, right?

If you're not able to take the this next first step, the challenge is that you're hesitating somehow, right, you're not able to just get started. You've got to take some action, and sometimes no matter what action you take, it feels like the wrong action. Right? No matter what action you're wanting to do to create this thing that you want to create, but you can't picture everything that's possible for yourself because there's you're only able to see up to the horizon that you have. Which is to say that that may not be where the destination is, you've got to go beyond that horizon and experience the new horizons that are presenting themselves to you.

Because if you've not able to do that you're going to be not taking that next first step which means what do I need to do right now? What needs to happen right now to get me one step closer to that thing that I want. Whether it's a kick ass relationship, whether it's you know, for me I love music, right? I said I I want to I want to challenge myself in terms of creating music. So I've had to somehow figure out how to gear my resources and what's available to me, whatever that may be, and direct myself towards what's possible, what is possible. And sometimes, it doesn't feel like any of that is possible, but I've got to just take this next step. This next. Okay, what can I do from here, right? Maybe I can't do anything that needs to happen for that whole thing. But maybe whatever step I can take from here will make more options that open up to me that get me closer to that thing that I want.

Do you get that so like, let me let me let me put that a different way. If I don't have any way to move towards what I want, I need to move towards opening up options that will move me towards what I want. That's it. So either I'm moving towards it, or I'm moving towards something that's moving me towards it, that can move me towards it, that might move me towards it. And if it might move me towards it, maybe that's the chance that I need to be able to take just the next first step.

That's what this is about.

Just getting started, means you don't need to know the entire step-by-step plan to get all the way to the end. You do not need all of the information to be able to make that happen. You only need whatever information that's going to get you one step closer, and just take that step. That's it. That's what it means to just get started. That's what I wanted to talk to you about. That's what this is. I'm just getting started on this podcast. And I said, I'm gonna take this next step. I don't know what the whole journey looks like, I don't know how it's gonna be by the end of it. I don't know what it can look like and what it can be possible. But if I'm just willing to take this next first step, I've given myself, I've opened myself the doorway to become what I need to be in order to create what I want.

So that being said, I'm gonna leave it there. If you want to jump in with me, let me know. I'd love to have you on, have you on board and we can, you know, figure out some cool stuff to do together. Yeah, already. I will talk to you soon.