There are two parts to this crazy thing called love. Inspiration and action. Most of us are great at the first part. Unfortunately, many of us fall short in the second part.
Inspiration is all about that thought. That spark. That feeling. When we think about our wife during the day and wonder how she’s doing. When we get a little pitter patter in our hearts thinking how beautiful she is. That’s the inspiration. That’s a very good thing.
But the action… I’m bad at following through on that inspiration. I neglect to text or call. I neglect to buy her a little gift at the store. I neglect to buy her flowers.
I’m working on getting better at this action part. Because, to make this thing called love, it requires both the inspiration and the action. What good does it do my wife that I think about her often if I don’t let her know with the action?
How many of us do the same thing with our creativity? We have brilliant inspiration. There’s the spark of an idea that gets us sweaty-palm-excited. But unless we follow through on that inspiration with action, we haven’t made creativity. There’s no creation without the action element.
We need to get better at action. My wife prefers one text message during the day over one hundred thoughts about her that are never expressed. And you’ll be a much stronger artist and creator if you put action to just one thought over having one hundred inspirations in your day.
It’s action. Acting. Act. Make. That’s where the magic happens with both love and creativity.
Let’s be better lovers. Let’s be better artists. Let’s put action behind our inspiration and truly make something that lasts.
YES! Nice comparison with relationships. I spoke on this about a year ago at Gallery – that until someone puts legs on the idea it just remains inspiration – and since then we’ve adopted it as one of our Axioms:
‘It’s not creative until its made’
YES! Nice comparison with relationships. I spoke on this about a year ago at Gallery – that until someone puts legs on the idea it just remains inspiration – and since then we’ve adopted it as one of our Axioms:
‘It’s not creative until its made’