Isolation and Work Ethic

Saturday 23/01/21

We're all living through a significant part of history right now and if you're anything like me, you're having mixed feelings about being locked away from the world. As a pretty introverted person, I enjoyed escaping my part time job in the service industry and having time to focus on my production career. However, as this pandemic has continued I've found myself missing the noise and bustle of 'normal' life. Not leaving the house often has resulted in having very little time away from my studio and I've had all the time in the world to step up my production work. Thats a silver lining right?

Well for a moment, I wasn't too sure. Staying inside, although doing what I love, was impacting my work more than I realised and I found motivation increasingly hard to come by. The more I forced myself to work, the more I realised I was no-longer bursting with creative ideas and would have nothing positive to say about my work.

After allowing myself some time away from the laptop, getting outside more* and getting back into my gradually bowing shelf of recipe books, I noticed that I was subconsciously gravitating back towards music. I've begun feeling better about myself and my work and have just finished producing an upcoming single for folk/ pop artist, TROI. (@troiparkerroth on Instagram and Facebook).

I guess what I've learned is that overloading ourselves with pressure isn't always the best course of action towards getting things done effectively. We have to allow ourselves downtime, especially in times like these, when for many of us our houses have become our offices. Forcing creativity rarely works, and to be honest, doing so steals magic from what should be a fun and rewarding experience.

*I'm fortunate enough to live near greenbelt land and therefore have places to go where making space between myself and others is easy.

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Trying to look cool and not fall off a cliff.