Spend Your Time - A Maker's Mind EP.1

We live in this strange paradox where we're simultaneously the architects of our days and the prisoners of them.

Recently, I've been feeling like my time has been slipping away. I wake up, blink, and the day is gone.

I'm so busy trying to achieve a certain type of life that in some ways I forget to live altogether.

Combine this feeling with the growing sense of missed opportunity around starting a YouTube channel - something that has been a long-term goal of mine for a while now.

But instead, I kept putting it off, fighting to grow my Instagram account in a short-term reach-focused headspace rather than slowing down to build something that could have a much greater impact on me as a creator and a person.

So yeah, it was all getting a bit much

Making Space

So in the last two weeks, I stopped posting. I figured that in order for me to start this YouTube journey, I needed to make space and refocus my priorities.

I'm no stranger to this. It's something I've had to do repeatedly over the last few years to get to where I am now.

It felt wrong at first. It felt like I was stalling, losing the momentum I'd built up over the last year. At the end of the first week, I didn't even have an idea of what type of content I wanted to make.

I don't want to make build process videos. While I enjoy watching them, I don't want to limit myself to my furniture practice.

All I knew was I wanted to make content which reflected me and my "creative" life in my own cinematic way. All I was left with was a bunch of clips of me struggling to talk to camera with 20-minute-long takes, trying to come across natural.

The second week came around, and things started to click. I had the idea of a mini film-style vlog where I don't document everything I've done in the week, but focus on the things I wanted to do in that week. That way I could make sure I was living a little more.

So I stopped filming my work this week and made an effort to document some of the things I'd been meaning to do.

And that resulted in my first-ever YouTube video:

"I can't help but feel like I'm running out of time - A Maker's Mind EP.1"

https://youtu.be/FPZ3_F-yxgk

There is an important lesson here, I think.

Yes, you don't have the time to do all the things you could possibly want to do. But if you accept that, you can then carve out and make time for a smaller number of things that are super important to you. And this often comes at a cost to some of the things you currently do.

Note to self:

As of August 2025, after asking myself what the point is in life... I currently would say it is to spend as much time as you possibly can doing the things you love.

Have a great week :)