Everywhere you go, everything you read, watch, or see that is inspirational relates to a good idea (usually). Sometimes it relates to more than one good idea, which falls over itself into project after project, where someone or a group of people achieves extraordinary things that make us want to do the same or similar to transform our lives, to make it better for us or for someone else.
Good ideas are everywhere, lots of people have good ideas, at the start of the project, in the middle of the project, and towards the end of the project.
The problem with ideas and creative ideas that come from creative people is that they can be distracting from the normal, from the humdrum, and from the day-to-day.
We all have the opportunity to build our own yellow brick road; we all have the chance to set a path into a future, to a better place, whether in our work project, our volunteer project, our parenting project, or our overall life project.
The problem is that we build our yellow brick road, clear, straight, easy to follow, and then the ideas come, either from us or from someone else - pop, pop, pop. These appear left and right of the path, in the forest like fairies in the trees or sirens singing a song to draw us off the path to somewhere else.
People that I know who did or do great things followed the path, minimised the distraction from the left and the right, acknowledged it, understood that someone else might get to that and do a wonderful thing over there but also understood that in order for them to do that they would have to build their own path and ignore the path that someone else was already on.
The bright, the shiny, the new is always much more intoxicating than the now, but the now is where the shit gets done and the difference gets made.
For the creative focus is exhausting, difficult, and challenging. That's why it’s so important.
Blog Post Number - 4228