The Art of Following Through
Over the last few years I’ve gotten more and more creative, curious — and yeah, lazy — and it shows in my work. Not lazy like I don’t care, more like I’ve got so many ideas I don’t know where to start… so I don’t. As I grow older and my interests keep expanding, my list of creative endeavors builds up — and in tandem, so does my procrastination.
Like I said, for years I’ve been making content. All sorts of stuff. From gaming, to short form, to drawing, test shoots, travel content… the list goes on and on. I tend to act in these spontaneous moments and flow with a new project wherever it takes me. But when it comes to these creative one-offs, I rarely find the time (or energy) to follow through.
Take my trip to New York in 2023 — it was a family vacation, and I brought my camera to document the life around the city. I shot stills of my family, scenes from the street, things that just looked interesting to me. At the time, I had all these ideas buzzing through my head on how I’d use that footage — turning it into something grand, something personal, something to look back on.
But like most of my work, it got lost in the sands of my hard drive. Sitting there. Waiting.
Now, two years later, I’m finally digging back into it. Not to create that big, cinematic project I had in my head — but to reflect. To see how I shot back then. To see how I thought. To recognize how far I’ve come. That footage isn’t just old content anymore — it’s a checkpoint. A creative time capsule.
All this to say: this year, I want to practice the art of following through. Taking an idea and seeing it through from start to finish — whatever it becomes along the way. This video I made highlighting some moments of that New York trip is a nice testament to all the work I’ve done in the last few years, but more than that, it’s the first real step past my habit of procrastination.
Now going forward, I’m building systems. Little rituals. Steps that help me move toward the goal I’ve had since the beginning: showing my work to the world. Not just the spontaneous spark of creation, but the process that turns that spark into something real.
Because art isn’t just the ideas we have in the moment — it’s how those ideas change into something more.
That’s today’s lesson. If you’re like me — creative, overwhelmed, and sitting on piles of work that no one’s seen — I hope this speaks to you. Maybe it’s your sign to follow through. Maybe it's time to open that folder you've been avoiding. Maybe we all need a little reminder that half-finished doesn’t mean failed — it just means unfinished.
Stay creative.
