Writer - Artist - Creator

View Original

Creative Journey

Get Moving! In order to get where you want to be, you have got to begin to take action.. I know, no surprise there, right! No one is going to prevent you from starting your creative journey, unless of course you allow that person to be you! We have all of these great ideas but we think we have to make them perfect before we release them for others to see! What is this, fear of sharing?

“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

Andy Warhol

Whatever keeps you from showing your work is not unique to you. Anyone who has something worth sharing with the world believes it is not yet good enough. We are terrible with acceptance of our own creativity. Our job is to keep making things, to keep creating and to never let that flame go out.

“The enemy of creativity…is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little time to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.”

Seth Godin

The creative journey is an adventure with the work we are doing right now, allowing us to get a lot closer to where we want to be. We will never get there if we don’t do the work and take action to get moving. Often, those ideas, the steps we need to take, the starting point of our journey, is right in front of us.

“In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.”

Dani Shapiro

Start today! Gather your ideas, assemble all of your tools, and get moving on your own creative journey!

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”

Kurt Vonnegut

Talk Soon…

G