Sunday, November 20, 2016

Are You Ready To Meet Your Creative Destiny?



If you are too scared to show your work to the world, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are not willing to work at an idea until it works, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are afraid to take risks, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If constraints hamper you, rather than inspire you, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are more desperate to "please", than to express a unique vision, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are formula driven, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you believe you are too young, or too old to create, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are not ready to put who you are – your unique style and vision – into your work, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you seek fame, praise, and glory, rather than creative fulfillment, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you evaluate your creation, based on the money it brings, rather than its creative value, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you think a creative life cannot be developed alongside a professional life, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny. 

If you do not believe that you could wake up tomorrow with new insights, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you hit plateaus, and are discouraged by them, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are not willing to sacrifice time, money (and competing distractions), for your craft, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny. 

If, when you are at a dead end, you do not trust your subconscious to pull a rabbit out of the hat, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny. 

If you have any doubt, a single word, a single line, a single exposure to something, can provide the answer you are looking for, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are not willing to toss your first idea, to make way for a better idea, and an even better idea, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you are touchy and resistant about advice, direction and input, then you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you would rather an idea gather dust, than collaborate and give it a  chance, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you do not take time to understand what makes your creativity flourish, and block out "creative time", you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you do not believe in the value of a creative pause, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

If you think creativity is not intellectually worthwhile, and applicable only in certain spheres and fields, you are not ready to meet your creative destiny.

The fact of the matter is, everything in life – our jobs, our relationships, our hobbies – every decision we make, and every step we take - can be enriched if we apply creativity to the task.

How can you be creative about a problem or a challenge you are facing today?

Spend a few minutes to think out of the box.

Keep at it until the “aha” arrives.

As always, thanks for sharing my Journey to Wisdom, Meaning and a Better Life,  and have a great day and week….M ……a Pearl Seeker like you.  Thanks to all of you for your likes, pins, shares, tweets and votes…..much appreciated.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Succinctly analysed in great detail, Minoo, the ability to think out of the box, creatively to apply the 9/10ths of our brain and abilities which we do not use, can make the difference between a mundane, run-of-the mill existence, and achieving the peak of our latent potential, and beyond. Brilliant Post!
Ajay