• Learn how to become more creative and more productive with Christian Ray Flores

  • Oct 31 2024
  • Length: 29 mins
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Learn how to become more creative and more productive with Christian Ray Flores

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  • Christian does many things. He runs a performance coaching program, does digital media and has a program in Mozambique. Christian was a refugee at the age of 4 and moved from Chile to Germany to Russia to Africa and back to Russia. He has seen a lot of civil unrest on the way including a military coup in Chile, a civil war in Mozambique the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1993 he started a music career in Russia and he became a pop star in Russia for about ten years. Christian says he moved from a communist household to being very anti-communist and having one of his hits Our generationbeing used as the anthem for Boris Yeltsin’s campaign as he came to power. Sam asks Christian’s approach to balancing creativity and business. Christian says everyone is creativity which he says is the ability tovcreate something out of nothing. And he thinks this is important for everyone whether in a create industry or not. He thinks tapping into your deepest creative self is what leads to commercial success. Marcus mentions we do have a show on creativity that you can listen to here. Christian says he has developed a morning routine that really helps developbcreativity. He says it’s easy to get distracted by emails and to do lists and then you are in reactive not creative mode. He says you can delay those tasks and create a pattern in your day so you get the creative work done first. Christian uses the first half of the day to create and the second half to communicate. First thing in the morning he contemplates, journals and gets himself into a state of creativity through design of his day. This time is then a good time to do the photo editing and other creative tasks. He says everyone can manage about 3 hours of creative work a day. So if we setup our days and for three days set aside time for this focused creative work, it will change your life. Marcus says this goes against the swallow the frog school of doing things where you should do the tasks you don’t want to in the morning. Christian says you are rested in the morning (as long as you went to bed at a sensible time) then that morning time is the best time for this creativity. And during this time you should not have distractions like emails. Christian says this creative time should be an empty space as in that empty space ideas arrive. Sam then asks Christian about Mozambique as it is where Sam lives and where Christian used to live. Christian moved to Mozambique aged 7 just a year after independence. It is a new culture and language for Christian. He went to a local school in Portuguese for the first year, before going to an English language international school. The civil war started not long after he had been there. But he said as a kid most of that went over his head. He would just roam the city unsupervised. He also got to travel all over Mozambique. He also picked up the rhythms and music of Mozambique and that influenced his later music. He also has an after school club that he runs in Maputo that supports children in Maputo. Marcus asks what he is doing now. He is a motivational speaker and has a digital media company. So be spends most of his time doing creative work and content. He hasn’t done music for about 4 years. He would like to re-introduce it in the future. Christian’s parting advice is aim high in whatever you do. It will be very hard to get there and will take time. But so many people are in the middle it’s crowded. It pays off to aim high. You can get Christian’s contact details and newsletters here. He says the other thing you can do is work out your starting point. You can use Christian’s quiz to do this. He says it’s a great tool to self assess where are you now and where do you want to go.
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