Name: How To Keep Coming Up With Ideas For Content
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Marie:     Hey it’s Marie Forleo and you are watching MarieTV, the place to be

if you want to create a business and life you love, and I think that you do. This here

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shindig is called Q&A Tuesday. This question comes from Ms. Chelsea and she writes:

Hey, Marie. Thank you so much for all that you give to us constantly. I watch every Tuesday

and one question I have is, how do you always come up with all this great content? Do you

ever have days when you just feel uninspired or like you don’t have anything new to say?

And if so, how do you still give us constantly great episodes of MarieTV? I send my people

a weekly newsletter too, but I'm afraid of uninspiring days or future days where I won't

have much to say or will have covered all the topics that I can think of. Do you have

any tips for how you keep your well from running dry? Love, Chelsea.

I was so excited to see this question for a lot of reasons. First of all, I think everybody

can relate to this. I certainly can. I think anyone who creates anything fears the well

running dry. We've all had that “oh crap” moment, “I'm totally done, I have nothing

else to say, everything’s been done already and everything I create from this moment forward

of course is going to be crap.” If you’ve ever felt this way, whether you're an artist

or another type of creative or you're a business owner like me, who has to create content week

I'm going to answer this question in the framework of what I do which is creating content for

this show, my weekly newsletter, my blog, all that online jazz. If you're a creative

who has no intention of creating regular content online, which if you want to make any money

you should definitely consider, I think you're still going to get value from this episode.

The first thing I want to say is I am not some creative superhero. Sometimes my creative

well is as moist as a Duncan Hines cake. Other times it’s as dry as a saltine in Death

Valley. Notice I haven't taught you anything yet; that’s because tip number one, or shall

we say, tip number dump, is do dumb sh*t. I just did like five dumb things and as far

Giving yourself permission to be dumb is actually a really smart way to activate your creativity.

I say find a dumb buddy and get stupid together. Here’s my dumb buddy; she's the dumbest

bitch I know. In fact, she made me say that and she’s making me sing this song right

now. How dumb was that? Now I'm not necessarily saying you should be silly in your content

if that’s not true to your brand, but being silly while you're creating, that can really

Tip number two – the “magazine rule.” Retreading old ground is not a sin. When it

comes to content creation, you got to remember not everybody saw that blog post you did back

in 2011; if they did, they probably don’t remember it as well as you do; people like

to revisit the same topics again and again. I've been doing MarieTV for years now. Q&A

Tuesdays, we revisit the same themes all the time.

You'll also see this in the magazine world. I’ve been a subscriber to O Magazine for

years and I love it, but check this out: De-Clutter your Life appears on three covers. I don’t

get mad at O Magazine because I'm happy to read that again. I always need to de-clutter

something in my life. And you know what? You see repetition in every facet of the art world.

Georgia O’Keefe painted those vajayjay flowers over and over and sitcoms use the same basic

story lines and Taylor Swift is always singing about breakups and rappers are always rapping

about the party and then the after party and then the party after the after party and then

Tip number three, and this is my biggest tip of all, is a mantra I use for a bunch of things

like money and love and ideas, and yes, it’s today’s tweetable:

“When it comes to creativity, there's always more where that came from.”

If you're more spiritual, let me remind you of one of my favorite quotes from my friend,

Marianne Williamson: “God’s the water and you are the faucet.” This is awesome

so you don’t get it twisted and think that all of your brilliant ideas are coming from

you. It requires a little bit of creative surrender and to get your ego out of the way

so a higher power can come down and work through you.

Before we wrap up, I just want to tell you I so relate to this question. There are so

many times when I feel like I have nothing else to say here on MarieTV, so to help you

and to help all of us, I'm going to do something a little different today and I want to continue

the teaching part of this episode in written form right below this video.

Thank you so much for that question, Chelsea, I hope it helps. Now I would love to hear

from you. When you're feeling creatively tapped out, tell me three go-to strategies that always

work for you. If you want to share more than three, that is awesome, but please make them

As always, the best discussions happen after the episode over at the wonderful land of

MarieForleo.com so got there and leave a comment now.

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Stay on your game and keep going for your dreams because the world needs that special

gift that only you have. Thank you so much for watching and I’ll catch you next time