The trap that keeps you stuck

​Man, I almost forgot how to start one of these…

I haven’t sent out a newsletter in a hot minute, and I must have sat down to write this at least a dozen times.

Each time, the process was the same—I’d stare at my screen, check my phone, then suddenly decide that right now was the perfect time to clean my desk and studio space. (And somehow, it still looks like a tornado came through here.)

“I’ll do it tomorrow.”

Then tomorrow turned into next week… then the next… and now it’s been over a month.

The last few weeks have been crazy—I launched my first live course, Short Form Filmmaker, I’ve been developing a new idea generation course, 1 Hour to Infinite Ideas, and I’m also just trying to keep up with lifeoutside of all this.

And honestly? This whole process feels like being on a boat full of holes.

You patch one leak, and two more pop up. You plug those, and now the first ones are leaking again.

The Trap We Fall Into

And that’s the trap—the idea that if I can just work hard enough, if I can just grind a little longer, I’ll finally get a handle on everything and be able to cruise downstream.

But creative work doesn’t work like that.

It’s an ever-evolving process.

By nature, there will always be new holes to patch, new projects demanding attention, new ideas pulling focus.

So if you’ve been feeling stuck—if you’ve been waiting for things to slow down so you can finally create… let me tell you: that moment isn’t coming.

And that’s okay.

Because feeling stuck isn’t a sign that we aren’t creative—it’s just part of the process. And the way we get through it isn’t by waiting for the perfect time. It’s by taking action, even if it’s messy.

This is something I talk about in the mindset section of my 1 hour to infinite ideas course—the idea that creativity is all about momentum.

In Japanese philosophy, there’s a practice called Kaizen—the idea that tiny, incremental improvements (even just 1% better each day) compound into massive growth over time.

So if you’re feeling stuck, forget perfection. Forget waiting for things to be calm. Just start. Make something today.Even if it’s small. Even if it’s rough.

I’ll be doing the same.

Hope this helps.

Caleb