 i made this and i made this oh and i made this oh my goodness i forgot about this one i mean keep watching to find out why i stopped crocheting with the nanyo and you're watching kyla's reading day and today is all about crocheting but all about how you can keep going with whatever fires you up okay so today we are talking about the book keep going the author of the book is austin clion the genre of the book is non-fiction the theme of the book is self-help okay if you are thinking oh this book looks familiar this book is a follow-up to still like an artist people are obsessed with still like an artist oh my god still like an artist still like an artist artist still at times still like an artist i read it i enjoyed it this one blew my socks off right because i've been podcasting for three years how do you keep going i am launching podcasts for other people how do they keep going i was crocheting i stopped so yeah let me read about how to keep going okay so for starters there is an entire chapter called make gifts this blessed me so much it is it sooth my little soul because austin talks about making gifts for people one of the highest compliments that you can give to someone in this decade is oh my god you're so good at making a pie you should run a bakery oh my god you're so good at podcasting you should teach other people oh my god you're so good at crocheting scarves you should sell them and people tell me that i learned how to crochet right before i went to law school in 2012 i started making scarves when i was in baton rouge because we randomly had this like cold freeze you couldn't go to the local store and buy scarves because it was louisiana they don't typically stock scarves i started selling them 25 a pop and oh i can earn money from things that i make right and so then i started to make baby gifts like baby blankets and i would give them away as gifts to people and then i did start to sell them i created an instagram page i created an etsy store called 19 nits i had this whole thing and then i stopped crocheting because everything i do all of my art does not have to be monetized right and so austin writes about how everything you do does not have to monetize leave the low-hanging fruit you enjoy crocheting you can crochet a blanket in a whole day you don't have to sell it if it brings you joy you don't have to monetize it you don't have to monetize everything right and there's this list that he has a checklist for artists he's like leave money on the table could i make money selling the blankets yes do i not want to use my labor in my hands to crochet all day and then now i've lost the passion for it yeah right because i definitely have stopped crocheting even though i still have all the yarn i absolutely just love to do it while i listen to audiobooks but i haven't done it in a long time because i tried to monetize it and then i lost all of the excitement about it right and that's not going to be the case with everything i absolutely love podcasting and i love helping other people and while i cannot make them love podcasting for me my whole thing was that i wanted more podcast in the world so i needed to start launching an editing podcast for other people so that they could put their stories out there without being stressed out right because that ties into my love of organizing things too but like that just goes to show you you can enjoy something and you can learn how to turn into a business or you can just enjoy something and just enjoy it right how to keep going kyla how to keep crocheting is to do it for fun okay absolutely beautiful stuff it got me through half of the stress of law school i wouldn't be here if i kept going because that's the way things work but i'm definitely picking it up again okay and there's something else here which is called your real work is playing it's an entire subsection starts on page 68 and austin writes about how when he is trying to work and he gets flustered he runs out of ideas he whatever his brain is fried he takes a break and he plays with his kids he has two boys sometimes he'll just draw sometimes he'll sketch sometimes he'll play on the floor and just talk to them when you see kids play they are so intense they gotta stack the blocks they gotta roll out the plate or they gotta do they gotta do they are focused and when we can take a break and we can play like a child when we can completely zone out and get into what we are doing we can create for the sake of creating it'll help you keep going because you will have so many ideas spinning you will have so many new thoughts and stuff bubbling up when you are just focused on having fun with the play dough right and so i really enjoyed that i mean how to keep going is everything you can still like an artist you can start the thing how do you keep doing the thing this book a small book very very good all right so if you are interested in how to keep going you should also take a look at this book which is all about how to crush imposter syndrome okay and spoil the alert you don't just crush it once you crush it and it'll probably show up again all right so take a look at this book review about being unapologetically ambitious and i'll see you in the next one bye