There is something about creation that we totally mis-understand and mis-identify.
And that is so crucial that it stands right in the way of what we have the talent, gift AND Possibility to create.
You might wonder, what is that?
What do you think it is?
The mainstream approach is like this:
We need the right strategy.
That implies having all the ingredients together, like for a good soup. You have to first get the spices and vegetables, the meat or poultry, you have to have water, salt, pepper and all the other spices. And then, you need time and mix it all together, let it cook and, voila!, your meal is created.
That's great. But is this really how it works?
If you desire to re-create the same soup, make this perfect dish, yes, than that's wonderful.
But does creation always work that way? Do you actually cook like that? Do you follow the exact recipe?
I don't.... I will deviate, not have all the 'perfect' ingredients, instead have others, I will experiment, change, shift and mix, wonder and sing, and CREATE a meal. This meal or soup might not have a name, it might not be in a cook book, but it WILL be delicious. I trust my taste buds and my joy of creation.
I cooked a perfect Borscht .... this amazing polish soup, with beets and so much more. I made it .... once! It was a lot of 'work', and everyone enjoyed it. I even made it significant, back then. I made everyone look very serious and impressed as I gave away my secret and told them the name of this wonder. I could tell from the look in their faces that they had no clue what I was talking about, but they nodded with severity, as if to give me that 'great cook' acknowledgement.
So, this creation thing.... We have to have the 'right' ingredients (says who?), it has to be the 'right time' (according to who?), we have to do it this very specific way (who came up with that?), and then, it will work. When we do it the right way, we will be successful. And, it works the other way around too: If we are not successful, we didn't do it right. We have to go back and analyze what we did wrong, correct that and start over, with all the rightness in place. Have you ever tried that? Has it worked? And then, what?
How many of you have given up?
How many of you have stopped?
When we judge, we stop.
Have you judged you?
What if you haven't done anything wrong?
What if the entire concept is a myth? And a lie? To make sure you will NOT succeed? So you will NOT thrive and give up?
Business models, strategic plans, programs and schemes.... What if they simply don't work for you?
What if you are so different that you need to acknowledge a different way, your way, to create?
Creation is not logical.
It is not a concept with xyz number of steps.
It is not congruent.
You will NOT know what the outcome will be, by the time you start.
The very desire to know the outcome of your project or creation is the stopping point, road block, wall, that kills it, that takes it's breath away and allows it to only float as high as the lowest common denominator.
Brilliance, on the other hand, is where you don't look for the outcome, you don't look for an answer, you trust your knowing and you make a step that has a joyful energy TO YOU. Not to your friends and family, they don't really know what's joyful to you. Only you can know what's light to you. They might tell you that you're crazy, that it's too risky, irresponsible, unkind, not logical, and so forth. (don't get me wrong, you might be one of the very few lucky people who have truly caring friends and family who will encourage your wild and crazy dreams.... I just talk about the majority of people.)
Here's a secret: You will NOT know where exactly you're going, as you're going. YOU WILL ONLY KNOW IN HINDSIGHT. You will, in the future, find out where your Big-Choice-points were. You will see only in the future were you followed your brilliance and created the major platform for your future. You don't know in the moment of choice.
What you WILL have in the moment of choice, is the lightness of your knowing.
You make a choice, just because it 'feels' so light. It is joyful. It has this sense of possibility. It makes you giggle. And you choose.
You might find out that this choice doesn't create what you thought it would.
Brilliance is also trusting that you can always choose again. No choice is really wrong. It gave you awareness. You learned something. You found out more about you. One day, you might acknowledge how courageous you are! And that's wonderful.
So, all you potent creators: You have to follow your gut instinct. And if it takes you on a road that you didn't really desire, well then, change, turn, move. When you judge your choice, you actually stop on that very road that turned out to not be so desirable, you sit down and lament. It doesn't change it. Lamenting is a total waste of energy. You lock yourself, your brilliant self, up on that road, you sit there, you build walls around you, so no one sees you and your wrongness, but YOU stay there with your own judgment. For eons. When are you going to stop that, stand up, brush the dust off of your dragon skin and keep walking?
Be the courageous, brilliant you who knows, who chooses, changes, turns, walks around obstacles.
What is it that you came here to create?
What is beyond judgment?
What is beyond wrongness?
The greatest inventions and new ideas came from that space of choice, choice, choice. What if nothing can stop you?
What can you choose?
What's next?
When you keep walking, you will, one day, look back on your trail and be amazed of what you have created. You had no idea when you started, way back then, you couldn't know what was around the corner. You mastered it. What is that, mastery?
Mastery is to not stop, to create with the moment, to turn each moment into a thread of your living breathing tapestry. It is kindness with you, smiling in the face of adversity and knowing that there wasn't adversity and adversaries if you weren't brilliant.
Your business, your life, our future, as well as Rome weren't built in a day.
It all is a choice-by-choice adventure.
One day, then, you'll look at the Grand Mastery you, unexpectedly, have been the painter of, and the uncontrolled, uncontrollable, chaotic, unfathomable craziness of the planless grandness will make you smile.
