CREATIVE DISCOVERY

I’m currently sitting in a rooftop restaurant watching the sunset on a cold Florida evening.  It doesn’t get this cold here very often.  It’s an anomaly if you will.  It’s a strange, rare occurrence, and things like this help me.  Not sure why, but they slow me down and cause me to wonder a little and actually absorb what’s happening.  I need that.  Life moves incredibly fast and most of what we do can feel like survival or it can feel like our entire lives are being lived reactively.

It’s hard to get ahead.  It’s hard to find the time to slow down and enjoy things and actually take them in.  The speed of life in this current culture can feel like an uphill battle.  It can be an enemy to inspiration and a war against discovery.

When I’m in that mode of just trying to get everything done in the day before I crash back into bed it’s really hard for me to feel inspired.  It’s hard for me to take in the cold sunset in front of me and draw something fresh from it.

But I have to figure it out.

Recently, I went on a war in my schedule and my rhythms.  I was determined to remove the fluff, the extra, the wastes of time, the things that weren’t enjoyable or weren’t leading me toward my goals.  I did all this to create some space because I was in a phase where I wasn’t feeling very inspired and I needed time to explore, time breathe in, time to discover.

I believe with my whole heart that discovery leads to inspiration.

I need to discover new views, new food, new records, new artists, new authors, new films, etc…

I love catching a new movie and walking out the theater inspired.  I love seeing a new band and leaving a show feeling inspired.  I love sharing new albums with my friends and I love when they share them with me.  It sparks new feelings and new ideas.

People who share new art with you are important.

However, when we live at such a pace that we can’t find time for fresh experiences we miss a lot of opportunity for creative discovery.  We have to fight for the time to go to shows, go to the movies, to go to the record shop and browse, to go to the book store and peruse.  We have to prioritize opportunities for creative discovery.  It leads to inspiration and inspiration is the spark to great art, fresh art, exciting art.

We have to make it a priority to discover.

Don’t surrender to the pace of culture.  Don’t get stuck in the ruts.  Don’t succumb to living a hurried, reactive, surviving life that subconsciously imprisons your imagination.  Break out and go discover things that inspire you and then put that inspiration to work.  Create, solve problems, and build things in the unique way that only you can.

Creative discovery is the bridge to inspiration and inspiration is the spark that can ignite our creativity.

It can sound cliche and corny, but it’s true.  I mean it.  Go discover and then get to work.

ACTION STEP: Go do something new this week. Try a new restaurant. Listen to a new band you’ve never heard of, better yet, go see a concert. Watch a movie, read a book, take a hike on a new trail. Get our there and discover some thing new and feel the inspiration roll in.

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