Creative Space

Your life is a series of decisions. And then it isn’t.At some point, beginning early in life, your decisions create a narrower future than before.Another way to say it is this: decisions to do something, make something, be something, eventually limit the possibility to make other decisions—to do or make or be something else.Another way to say it is this: decisions have consequences, and those consequences limit future options and opportunities.Until, at some point, you’ve been cornered into a life without decisions at all. You wake up (which doesn’t feel much like a decision) and follow the contours that were put there by a whole host of decision you made for yourself before you knew what was best for the current you.No alternatives. No breathing room. No space for spontaneity or creativity.It’s at this point we cling to someone else’s freedom, spontaneity, creative latitude to do what they want. We fantasize about their freedom. We covet their ability to choose.Let’s make something clear: It’s the last thing—the clinging to someone else’s freedom—that is the single biggest inhibitor of finding your own wiggle room, your own space to choose. The fantasizing atrophies your creative strength, which is really your ability to find just five minutes to let your heart truly fly, to be creative, to paint, to nourish your soul.You are trapped! Trapped in your desire for someone else’s life. Your inner self, your True Self, is crying out for attention.Get off social media.Turn off the TV.Give yourself five minutes to listen.This space miraculously births more space like it. Five minutes turns into 10, into 20, into an hour. Your soul, spirit, inner you, is incredibly generative and creative. Give it five minutes and it will turn it into more.Let’s try it together.Tomorrow morning.Five minutes.For you.To listen.To play.