Helloooo creative friends,

This Create Connected drop leads with a call-to-create, explores the idea of creating with "soul", and upgrades your kit with some time saving tools. This drop has 2 pieces: A newsletter, and a podcast.

Get excited!! There's lots to devour below. Read on to..

🚀 Challenge yourself to create using a prompt about gratitude

🎤 Learn how Isaiah Improves builds with soul and creates time

🧰 Grab 4 tools to help you make better use of your time

💭 Deepen your creative thinking on signals, value, and resonance

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Let's dive right in,
Jameson

Use this prompt to create with your art form(s). Then use the link below to share it. I might reach out to feature you in the newsletter!​

Prompt: Using your art form(s), tell a story about someone who learns the meaning of gratitude through a difficult experience.

For this drop's podcast, I connected with YouTube creator and marketing pro Isaiah Improves to chat creativity, self-improvement, and today's content landscape.

Here are some standout insights.

Create with "soul" to be one-of-a-kind

​The best creators often break the so-called rules to success. How does their stuff win? Because they let their authenticity cut through what's expected. How to create with soul.

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Creatively time-starved? Search for "dead time"​

Try to find gaps in-between the big parts of your day. Instead of scrolling, add one small thing to a project. Here's how Isaiah does it.

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AI will open new avenues for creativity to flourish​

Authentic process will hold a premium as it gets easier to AI-generate the end product. Traversing AI feedback loops to tell stories may become a new art form. How to ride AI's creative wave.

Listen to the full episode on:

Todoist helps you track your projects, be the maestro of your calendar, and see where you're losing time. It has a generous free plan.

Ikigai (both a concept and a tool) helps you find purpose so you better know what to do next. Answer the 4 questions. Find the overlap.

Calendly helps you reduce time spent messaging back and forth to schedule things. Even 10 minutes per scheduled call adds up quick.

Freedom helps you break time-wasting habits by blocking certain apps and websites from your devices during certain parts of the day.

This week I wrote about UNDI (useless noise, delete immediately). Basically, the difference between helpful signal that's paid attention to or useless noise that gets deleted immediately lays in how much value it brings to the recipient.

Many creatives and artists provide value that's highly intangible. Emotional or cerebral resonance with your audience.

The things you create—your works—are all signals that carry this value to others. You use channels (like social media) to send signals.

Here are 3 questions to deepen your practice:

1. How do you gauge your resonance with your audience?
2. How much signal are you sending to your audience?
3. What resonates with your audience the most?

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