Overcoming Perfectionism and Prioritising Practice

hello so I'm making this video because I find myself as so many of us do falling into the um perfectionist trap of not making any content or not perform performing certain tricks importantly because they're not perfect cuz I haven't got my lights or I haven't got my decent camera haven't got my mics um and sometimes that stops me and as you would have seen on the channel sometimes that stops me for weeks and and as you can see I'm in the middle of a kind of very imperfect situation which isn't bad but um one of which being I mean my house I've just moved into that that that is you know dated understandably because uh you know there's work going on there's clutter everywhere uh this is going to be my magic Studio this see how committed I am even though I haven't been making videos it might look like I'm not but uh look at that this is going to be the new studio which was a garage uh and that is for the channel and the course um that's going to be done in a couple of weeks which is ridiculously exciting so I won't have to pay for an external office that's boring though isn't it and this is uh basically the other reason I'm making this video is cuz a lot of people asking me about how do you uh practice uh like deal with all the magic stuff that's coming out how do you kind of decide on what to practice um and when we buy new products you know we kind of get the new thing and we get overwhelmed So and I've made videos on this before and I thought I'd make this because I'm in the middle of the chaos the sort of ADHD chaos and I'm not saying you have to have that to have this many of you will empathize with this so today Helen and her kids have gone out I've got a few hours um to kind of practice L of stuff I do like two or three hours structure practice every day on my show and certain skills but this is the sort of result of of kind of me going right I want to do some juggling five Ball Juggling three Ball Juggling ring routine um free other free Ball Juggling with different balls these are the stuff I want to review soon so that's on the pile there I'm in the middle of learning other stuff to review this is some of the stuff I want to look at next and there are boxes and boxes of of stuff that fulfill the same criteria of course I know still have to say this the mess in here is due to the room being done and everything waiting to go in there um but what the importantly so what I sometimes do is I'll just play I'll get I've just had a contact juggling video on there I've been looking at different juggling videos to inspire a routine and then I'll pick up the balls and juggle something and then do some magic stuff and some eight ring contact juggling I've got the acrylic crystal balls out for contact jugl just a minute ago which is madness all of it but then when I feel that happening and this is the the the point if any of you were the same you kind of don't know where to start I get my notebook out which is currently more remarkable too and I kind of look at all the things I enjoy practicing and want to practice and then start thinking about the weaknesses okay so I just looked at free Ball Juggling routines to inspire me for my glow-in-the-dark juggling routine at what tricks look good looked at the tricks look good or not I want to do and look at the weaknesses in my juggling the bits of the tricks I can't do and then write down next struct structured practice session not to Veer from that thing so importantly I think the play kind of brainstorming chaos sessions are fun you get the cards out get the coins out sh fun get everything out and um but you'll make time for that but leave time for that structured thing and and what I tend to do in the week is getting to the practice room or the desk or what depending on what I'm practicing and say to myself you are sticking with these fre and four three or four things look at the time I've got recently I've been obsessing over five juggling clubs cuz I've nearly got it so instead of doing half an hour 40 minutes like I was going to do I ended up doing like 4 hours on that and leaving no time for anything else so yeah that was not good because time is limited so what I've got here is I've got three or four bits of juggling I have to practice to to be able to do the routine I want to do they go into the kind of short list for the next struct to practice with card stuff I realized recently my zaro Shuffle was bad so I'm trying when I sit down with cards after the play session just to practice practice not the zero Shuffle but the bit of the zero Shuffle that I can't do and that's important too and that's the kind of quality practice I think that we need to make time for and to prioritize um if we kind of already know what we're going to work on so I thought I'd share that with you on breakfast because I've just been juggling five balls um oh the C and ball routines just I just keep seeing up got to work on that and if you feel overwhelmed just you know allow that time to play allow that time to be chaotic and flawed but limit it and say at this time I'm actually going to work out the three or four things I want to work on before moving on and you're probably going to want to stay there for longer than you think you are so hope that's helpful it's helpful for me because I have to sometimes make videos when I haven't got my stuff with me I want to start making more content people have been saying look you know where's your videos you're doing hardly any so uh I think being a bit fussy keeping the quality up when I've got the quality with me but you know accepting I can still say stuff without you know a grand worth a kit around me um and importantly do please watch the reviews of older things I'm trying to review older tricks now most of them are older when I review them anyway because I want to work on them like the TCC trick that obliterate and not so sharp came out ages ago but it's not an easy trick to kind of get good enough to get a footage of or or talk about with with knowledge of how it feels to progress with that trick so you know don't look at the stuff and it's been out a while I don't want to see that because as I've said before magic doesn't age it doesn't get better with time I don't think it might it might progress in many ways but the quality of the of what we do doesn't so have a look at them um like And subscribe check out online magic.co there's a right a waffle in a very messy semi- building side of the house but uh I hope you got something out of it I'm going to practice a bit more now before everybody gets back