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Creativity Requires Discipline

5/15/2017

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Creativity comes in drips and drabs sometimes. I have read that if you want to be creative you need to continually create.  Which I do here.  I try to create something daily. 

Necessity is the mother of invention.  This red coffee cup is mine.  The saying is not mine.  I think it reflects how I feel today.  Each day there is so much to do or so much that can be done. The trick is prioritizing some things above others.  

Creating these drawings requires discipline. I also try to say a bit of something that's going on.  Today there has been lots.  Today the drawing was the least of my worries.  I'm preparing for a conference, doing some content analytics, published some website pages and went through old files to shred documents I hope I no longer need. I don't like carting things from place to place.  Most of what I have is online anyway so that isn't too big a problem.  

Going through paperwork has got to be one of my least favorite chores.  I'd prefer to be drug over broken glass.  But we have to do what we have to do and broken glass doesn't sound too appealing to me. 

One of the good things about doing the shredding and filing today is that I feel quite a sense of accomplishment about my day.  I do feel better after doing something I didn't want to do.  If feels good to have the discipline to accomplish things that are onerous.  

When I was in the Marines we said "We have done so much with so little for so long we are now prepared to do the impossible with nothing."

Getting things done is appealing.  Doing them - sometimes not so appealing.  

Today, with many priorities, I again made a drawing and I like it. Not because it's great but because it's mine. 

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