“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” Plato

Sometimes when you feel a storm coming, you brace yourself. How do you know its coming? The air changes, it gets more static, if you a wild woman like me you smell it coming too and batten down the hatches and get ready for it. It’s like how we all feel the approach of a planet that is going to affect us, but care little for the departure of it and the message it left behind for us. When the storm departs, sometimes there is chaos left in its wake, destruction, defunct and there is cleanup to do. Before I get off on too much of a tangent, this is really about your creativity. More importantly - how to live a creative life.

If we fail to care for our children, Social Services will take them away. If we fail to feed our pets, the Humane Society will take them away. But there is no Creativity Police or Soul Patrol to rescue us from ourselves. There is only us to manage our own creativity and divineness. Do not kid yourself, nobody cares about you like you care about you, it’s the cardinal rule of woman to not let ourselves get carried away and ignore ourselves.

I always advocate about what would you do if you were not afraid? What holds us back? I know what it is. If’s. We if ourselves to death, if I had this I would, if I had that I could. We make more if’s and expend more energy iffing ourselves into denial – that it would expend to leap out and grab a hold of what we want to do. How does one live a creative life? She stops being scared, what are we afraid of anyways? Failure? Clarrissa Pinkola-Estes says in her book that it isn’t usually failure that holds the flow of creativity back; it is the reluctance to start over again after we may fail. Again - I say big deal. So what you start over? If you’re afraid of something biting you – bite it back!

How often in life do you allow someone to say something to you that makes you feel as if your dreams are not vital or your ideas do not mean much? Or allow someone’s actions to push you into a space where their discomfort makes you uncomfortable? When you allow words to weir your creativity it can take a long time to get the river of vision to flow without restraint again. Boundaries must be pushed, you may have to be illogical, and a walking paradox to reclaim what you allowed to be polluted. Every single day of my life I live creatively, it does not matter that I work an office job, or that I have very little free time, or that I have demands from clients, loved ones or work. To live creatively is not just in what you produce tangible with your time and hands. It is what you are on the inside as well. Once you find your creativity, fight for it. Fiercely; let no man or woman make you cringe from what you believe to be a strong, powerful, thought or feeling. Latch on like a wolf if it’s something you want, dream, crave, desire or want to manifest.

Living life creatively is not just creating a tangible something you can show someone, see, touch or look at, it’s creating a more potent and powerful you so that you can fulfill your destiny.