Creative choices

When you get a creative idea:

• you can think about it
• you can ignore it.

Ideas can be:
• opportunities knocking
• time wasters
• trouble makers

Taking action on an idea is always a risk. There are no guaranteed outcomes. Nobody has a 100% success rate. Ideas fail and ideas succeed.

Good ideas that are not pursued are failures. Risks not taken are failures. Thinking without action is failure.

At least try when you get an idea or you have failed before you even began. Failures are not always disasters, in fact often they create success in another direction. I am the the oldest and the slowest black belt in my class, but I am fit, flexible and part of a pleasant group sharing a common interest. I fail at being the best and succeed by being there.

If you want to be an artist, you don’t have to be the best in the world, you have to be the best that you can be. That comes through practice. However, if after a lot of trying you are still not good enough… well, too bad, you tried. Now have a look around and try something else. It’s that simple.

Your mind makes a big emotional deal about failure. Your pride stops you giving up and trying something new. And really, that’s pretty stupid behavior, typical of humanity.

Some things are simply not in your life’s pattern. Some ideas lead into situations where you feel that you are wearing someone else’s clothes, they are just not right. That’s how life goes. You don’t have to make a big deal of it. Change!

At least try a new idea that seems exciting but you don’t have to cling to it as if it is your only hope for success. You will always have new ideas, chances to express new creativity, it’s all a part of this crazy adventure called life.

So let’s finish on this reassuring note: life leads nowhere and offers no guarantees when you arrive.