Creative Genius, Awake!!!

I believe when people feel they are not thriving, sad, and sometimes even depressed is because they have reached a point in their life that they are not creating or contributing to anything. Most of the time they don’t even know that is the case. They just get up and go through the motions.

We are all creative beings, God made us that way. When we say the word creative ones mind immediately goes to arts but that’s not true. Look at an airplane for instance, there’s nothing very artistic about engines and the laws of physics but you have to be extremely creative and imaginative to believe you can make one ton of metal fly. Same thing goes to medicine and the creativity involved in discovering new cures for old diseases. But not all doctors and engineers tap into their creative geniuses. I guarantee there are many who walk around frustrated, sad and depressed; because they are simply going through the motions, focused on the mundane and not realizing the potential each one of them have been given.

You are a creative genius, and if you don’t realize that and tap into it two very sad things will happen. The first is that you will never get to experience the full life that God has in store for you. You will miss out on the joy and the excitement of discovering new worlds and new dreams within the path that God has laid out for you. The second is the world will never get to experience this greatness that lives inside of you.

Now, for a lot of people their creative genius has been hibernating for a very long time. Maybe you are reading this and it’s like an alarm clock is going off inside of you and your genius is ready to wake up and hungry to get everything that’s been missing out. But you realize that no matter how hungry you are, you are also weak because you haven’t been active in so long. 

Well, before you get frustrated and decide to put it to sleep again I want to give you 3 steps to help you bring your genius to life strong and steady:

1 – Set a goal – Take some time to assess your situation and nail down the direction where you want to go. Whether it is to write a song, get fit, develop a groundbreaking technique for movie editing, or a new culinary fusion that will blow everybody’s socks off, decide on a destination. A well define, simple, clear goal. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” Zig Ziglar

2 – Start with small portions – Avoid being frustrated with your personal failures. Set yourself up for success. Now that you have decided you want to get fit and that you want to run the Turkey Trot don’t go running for thirty minutes tomorrow, you will hurt, feel discouraged and give up. Start walking for 30 minutes and slowly pick up the pace. If you believe you can implement a new system at work, don’t stay late until midnight. You will feel exhausted and most likely you will not be able to keep that up for more than a few days. Instead, stay an hour a couple day this week.

3 – Stay consistent – Consistency is the key to success. Don’t give up. Your results will come, they will be rather small since you’re going at a warm up pace in the beginning  but as long as you are seeing them consistently it also means they are piling up, and when you least expect you will see your genius thriving, creating, and on a roll.

And the reality is you really don’t know what can come out of your consistency in applying these steps. Maybe what you discover between A and B, the trajectory towards your goal, is even more incredible than the goal itself. Be open, be expectant and be ready to receive all of what can and will come out of your pursuit of creativity.

“No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him” 1 Corinthians 2:9