“The key question isn’t “What fosters creativity?” But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.” —Abraham Maslow
What are you preparing for? Gloom or Bloom?
Isn’t this a great question? What if we started our day with: What are you preparing for and we HAD to answer ourselves honestly? What would we say?
It’s a handy way to temperature check, if you are the sunshine or the brewing storm and place the opportunity to right yourself (gratitude works, moving the body works, like dancing to this song) before the day takes you away.
Will it always work? No.
Could it work? Yes.
Can you imagine if you woke up in a bad mood and had the clairsentinece and humor to write an honest dialogue:
Oh, I am looking forward to blaming my partner all day.
Me? Why I am going to doubt myself and second guess my value all day long even though the fact that I am here is a sheer miracle.
Huh? I guess I’ll keep saying that I don’t have enough [fill in the blank]
Oh, hmmm? Someone else will tell me how my day goes.
Funny, kinda. With a little distance and belief in our own creative power, we can make the small moves to make big changes.
The belief in our power, the will to have faith and take the small inspired steps are the most crucial. There is a story told in a few iterations that you may have heard? About a village who was in desperate need of rain? There was famine and the people were in deep need. There was a meeting of the village and an elderly sage said, “We must pray. Only God can helps us now.”
There were many faiths in the village and they then began to debate over how to pray, and what to pray. At that time two small children came running up with big colorful umbrellas. Frustrated and exacerbated with trying to fix the problems, a few adults asked, “Why do you have umbrellas? Can’t you see there is no rain?”
“Yes,” the children replied, “but we came to pray for rain, so we better be ready for its arrival.”
It is hardest when we have no proof of what we have committed to bringing to fruition, to hold that vision and faith, but hold we must. That is what co-creators do.
I have been listening a lot to the New Thought leaders of the early to mid 1900’s and they have my lense slightly loosened and I am loving it. You can listen to Florence Shovel Shinn talk about Catching the Good + other mindset ideas here.
Keep creating and preparing for the best—because it’s coming!
Kate
“God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.” — Pablo Picasso