Episode Transcript
[00:00:02] Hey, good morning. It's early.
[00:00:05] What's holding you back from creating what you would really like to create?
[00:00:15] Hey, I'm Bradley Charbonneau. It's Thursday Thunder. It is middle of the night, Amsterdam time. And I just flew in from the States and I am super. I'm going to be super jet lagged. It's middle of the night. Hey, good morning. It's early.
[00:00:33] Point number one.
[00:00:35] Please, please, pretty please.
[00:00:38] Your most clear and potentially important thoughts and ideas and adventures and new ventures come at that golden hour, right when you wake up and right when you're going to sleep. I just woke up, I don't know what time it is. Two in the morning, 1:30 in the morning.
[00:01:04] And I have clarity on an idea. Now this is where I get to the question, what are you not creating? And what's holding you back from creating?
[00:01:17] Here's my side question, which is potentially even more important.
[00:01:21] Do you create? What do you create?
[00:01:25] And this is where I get into the idea that I believe deep in my heart that we are all creators and yet we just are scared to create. Or hesitant or worried or take your pick of fears as to why we don't create. And I can tell you mine, mine is procrastination, perfectionism. I worried about popularity and what the others are going to think and everything. And I'm long over that. I actually solved that thanks to John Muldoon on November 1, 2012. When I started writing every day for 30 days, that solved that one real quick. So back to this thing that you are not creating and yet you'd like to create. And this is assuming. And my friend's boss used to always say, don't assume. I'm assuming that we are all creators and I truly believe this. Here we go, here's mine. Ready?
[00:02:28] Just coming back after a five week trip to the us. It was fantastic on so many fronts. Point number one, here I am making a quick summary of. I'm not making a quick summary of the five weeks I have one thing I want to do, I want to tell you exactly what it is. But I got this clarity when I immediately when I woke up, I stayed in bed, got my eyes closed still. I go to the bathroom, that's fine. But then come back in bed and give yourself five to ten minutes of absolute.
[00:02:58] No phone, no book, no nothing. Just let yourself go, let yourself think. Let the ideas just flow and come to you and they're going to be overwhelming. That's fine. And usually you're going to get a few little nuggets of wisdom, so to speak. So here we go.
[00:03:16] What's yours? I want to know. And I also really want to know from you.
[00:03:21] And again, I'm assuming we're all creators and we are. Just go with it. Just accept that from me. You are a creator. You know it. And yet there's usually stuff holding us back.
[00:03:34] What's that thing that you've been wanting to create and you haven't done for a variety of reasons.
[00:03:40] Here's my fun thing.
[00:03:42] I just got back from the States. We were also in Austin, Texas, where 99% sure my son is going to move to, which is a huge deal in our family. It's really exciting.
[00:03:56] And so here's a little fun fact. Where I was, I'm. I was born in the States, and both my kids were born in the States. My wife is Dutch, born in Holland, and we are. So the boys are half Dutch, and we are very much half, half European, half American family, and I love that part of us.
[00:04:13] So we've lived here now in Europe for eight years, going on our ninth year, and we used to listen to country music, kind of. Not as a joke, not as like, oh, that's so funny. And that's so American. Well, a little bit like that, right? But as we listened, I don't know it. I just, to put it bluntly, I really like it. It sort of grew on me and grew on us. And my oldest son, he really likes it now. And we'd be in cars in the past five weeks, and he. This was actually really interesting. We borrowed a friend's car in Texas and we turned on the radio station, which I got to admit, we don't listen. I don't listen to the radio a whole lot, but it was a pretty older car, and it didn't really as much as my son tried to connect it to his phone, he couldn't. So we listened to radio, and the radio station was country music, and it was really fun. So here's the thing I'd like to do.
[00:05:16] And if you know me, you're going to think, oh, no, Bradley, really, another medium, really more another medium to create in. But here's the thing. If you really, really know me, you're not going to say, oh, no, Bradley. You're going to say, oh, yes, Bradley, let's do this.
[00:05:40] I want to create a country western song.
[00:05:44] And then. Okay, are you sitting down? Are you ready for this? Because it's a biggie.
[00:05:50] I want to. I want to. I want to get some.
[00:05:52] Go with me or not. On the AI thing, but I want to ask AI. I want to ask ChatGPT to help me write it, because I don't know how to write a song and then I'd like to sing it. And if you want to know what I'd really, really, really, really, really want to do, I. I'd love to learn how to play the guitar. I feel like, you know, I'm a creator. I'm a good speaker, I'm a good writer, but I'm not a musician. And it's one of my not so secret dreams is to become a musician. And again, I'm back to the idea of the fear. And what holds us back. What holds us back from creating what we want to create. Did I. Did I say anywhere that I want to win an Emmy? Did I say that I want to tour the world with my musical endeavors? No. I want to create something. Who's it for? Me. Who's my audience? Me. Who's going to be happy if I do this? Me. Who's standing in the front row, like, screaming and huge fan. Me. It's for me. It is me. Creating for me. Why is that? How does that work? Because I'm the creator. And I'm the receiver. I'm the creator and I'm the consumer. And so how do you make the consumer happy? Create something for the consumer. Who's the consumer? You. Who's the creator? You. Who you're creating this for You. Who's a creator? You.
[00:07:10] It's. If you're still following me, and believe me, I know it's morning, it's late, it's early. I don't even know anymore. This is Thursday. Thunder. It's barely Thursday here in Europe. And this is what excites me. This is what gets me out of bed. Come down here in the dark, record my crazy. Less than 10 minute. How am I doing on time?
[00:07:35] I'm at 7 minutes 40. I've got two minutes to wrap this up.
[00:07:40] I'm coming back to the question. And remember, here's a good. Also a tip for creating. Sure, I can create all day, but how am I talking to you, dear listener? How am I asking you? How am I involving you, the listener? Bradley's creating? You're listening. What I really want for you is I want you to benefit, to reap the benefits of being a creator. Remember, I'm going on the assumption we are all creators, but the question is, are you creating something? And what is that thing that you want to create that you haven't done? And what's holding you back. And can I reach out my hand to you and invite you to be the creator that you know you are? And what is it that you want to create?
[00:08:32] Remember the part about the audience? You're the audience. You're the creator. You're the audience. You're the artist. We're not going for awards. We're not going for packed stadiums. We're going for creating something from me, as I just described it, and I'm just saying it again, sort of for myself also, to give you an idea of what are you creating for me? It's a country western song based on our past five weeks of traveling. And I'd like to make it a story about these five weeks that I did together with my son. And I wanna create something. And it is December. I don't know what. Fifth. I wanna have this thing done for Christmas. In fact, that'd be a Christmas gift to myself and to my son and to our relationship to have something done for him, for us, forever.
[00:09:20] Why? Because I finished it.
[00:09:23] All right, that was it.
[00:09:26] It's Thursday Thunder. Bradley Charbonneau, here I am doing the math right now. I am doing the hard stuff. I'm creating. It's the middle of the night. I'm recording, I'm creating. I'm creating an idea. And when is the magic gonna come for me? If I may create this thing, this music, this country western song. I gotta go. My time's up. Limit yourself to time and make it done. Get it done. I'm Bradley. See you next week.
