your Mid-sprint review | CREATOR series w. troll dolls (new video)

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This week episode 7:
“your Mid-sprint review”

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The next CREATOR series with troll dolls is Monday 20 April 2026.
The video ends with me warning I have a holiday coming up, and won’t be back until May, but I miscalculated!
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In CREATOR we make our art/content, but you can plan anything with this system.

Welcome to The New Rock Star Channel.
We use the analogy of planning one week of a rock star tour, where the choice for different gigs symbolize the art your post on your social media.

The only rule for these videos is:
– no preparation
Because any process you don’t know by heart, belongs in the trash bin!

video recorded on Monday April 6 2026

In this video;

1. Welcome to a new episode in the CREATOR series 00:00

It’s Easter Monday in the Netherlands, which is a holiday in the Netherlands, and it seems like the perfect time to have a Mid-sprint review.
A sprint is a time-period between 1 and 4 weeks, in which you plan to get amount of work done.
This is a one-week sprint for a content creator, which is what we create in one week, so it’s a production schedule.
This dollhouse is my own personal sprint, which is always from Friday to Thursday.
And we’re taking a look at it mid-sprint, and see what the trolls are up to.

2. Setup of the house 02:24
The basement represents infinite possibilities, or everything you could pick but didn’t.
On the first floor are the Ready trolls: These are the pieces of content you have selected to create during this sprint.
The second floor contains everything that is still in transit/ you’re working on.
And the top floor everything that is done.
On the balcony is content that is both done, and also shared/ posted.

In my case, I’m halfway and a staggering number of trolls is still waiting, Ready to be created, except I didn’t do anything with them.

3. Acknowledging what you did do 07:07
If you spent your time doing other things, then acknowledge those.
If those projects do not have their own troll/ project card yet, make them and put them on the balcony.
So you make it visible what you did do, even when that is something unrelated to work.
Give yourself some love, for what you accomplished even if you did not plan for it.

4. Reprioritize 09:30
In the room of Ready, prioritize your remaining projects.
Usually by placing the content you need first, first in line.

For example: I’m shooting this video today, because I want to post it today.
And tomorrow I create what I want to post tomorrow.
Ordering the pieces in the order you will be needing them usually makes the most sense when you’re running late.

However, it’s quite possible prioritization alone is no longer enough, and you need to bring in bigger guns.

5. Solutions if you’re short on time 13:25
If your original content planning can no longer be achieved, you have several options.
5.1 – Maybe you can swap something?
If you have a piece of content later this week that is smaller, you could squeeze that one in today, and move today’s production to the later date.
5.2 – Cancel the content and then:
– don’t post at all
– replace it with an older repost in the same series (CREATOR formula/ portfolio)
– replace it with a fresh piece of content you create today, and whisk it up on the spot (MESSENGER formula)
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