"What's your creative outlet?" is a question I spent the New Year asking my closest friends. We were traveling around the state seeing what we could over a couple weeks. We made it to Tahoe; played board games; spent time in the forest, Big Sur, and the beautiful Monterey Bay. We laughed, we celebrated, and we made fun out of what was otherwise ordinary.
Creative flow comes easily when we're free. When we're free from obligations like work and school and with the people closest to us, or even alone, then our most natural version of self appears. It's a creative flow with quirks and perfect imperfections. We laugh at ourselves and find joy in the otherwise mundane activities of life. Running at the beach becomes a race, sitting at the table for dinner becomes laughter and story telling, and fires become magical places where people come to touch each others' souls. Creative outlet like this, using our imagination, changes our reality from the same old everyday into whatever we dream.
It can change for us in a day, but the gravity of the change depends on the creative muscle we've built until that point. Said another way, we get better at making our lives what we want by choosing to create our lives each day.
My creative outlet is mostly in writing. I write for SB Chime, do gratitude journaling and free write. Recently, I also have started playing the piano. Working though music and song is something that words can't quite touch and the mouth struggles to taste. The aroma and atmosphere of music is absolute delight. I love to dance and sing. I love to invent creative solutions and work with my mind. I love to plan and organize. I love to bring people together.
The more creative we are the greater our potential for success. The creative fluid version of ourselves has no limits, we are infinite.
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
If we could build our lives, and we can, then what would we create? What's your creative outlet?