{"id":47681,"date":"2022-08-09T19:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47681"},"modified":"2022-08-09T19:17:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:17:42","slug":"creative-by-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/08\/09\/creative-by-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative by heart."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For a couple of months, last year, I walked around with the idea to create an anxiety course.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or a series of videos to help people who are caught up in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seemed like a good idea to share my experience, both as a person suffering from it for years, and as a coach who often works around the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides that, it looked like a perfect way to get some positive attention, or ‘eyeballs’, which could help me out marketing-wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original idea was to do it in English, but in the end I decided to go for Dutch, as some sort of test drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just wanted to see what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a pretty cool experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hired a nice-looking office for an afternoon, bought some equipment for recording images and sound, and fired away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only thing I’d decided upon was a specific order, and some chapters that made sense; the rest was glorious improvisation \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After recording there was the editing, the addition of music, making the titles, creating the website, uploading the lot, and, as an extra, transforming the videos into podcast files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in all, quite some work, but a good experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love trying out stuff and going all-in, and this was definitely one of those experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides this, I also created and wrote my own website (multiple times), and do the same for all my ads and videos on YouTube and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there are all the blogs, the stories I’ve been writing for more than one-and-a-half decades, which are partially (almost 800 of them) available through my site and Medium.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I honestly have no idea why I share this, but I’m obviously doing it and I’ve learned to not question those inclinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s fun and quite magical to do all that shit yourself, and keep everything close to the source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What helps me is my extensive advertising background and the propensity to fuck around with stuff and see what it can do and where I can take it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course I have no clue what this has done for my career and online presence, but it feels good to stay creative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love that fire, that exciting, elusive place of birth that’s not only my goldmine for online and offline (my books and music) creativity, but also for coaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can say that I’m a creative by heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that’s something to cherish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Photo by @sharonmccutcheon, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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