Do you consider yourself creative? Many people don’t. Many people erroneously believe themselves incapable of creating anything. What most people fail to understand, though, is that life itself is an act of creation – their creation. Through their thoughts, their beliefs and their actions, they have created the very life that they are living.
In this sense, life itself becomes the ultimate creative endeavor. We put together the pieces of family, career, relationships, interests, passions and more, to build a unique expression of life. We blend pieces of this with colors of that to produce our own version of reality, truly fabricating a masterpiece of our own design – whether we are willing to acknowledge this process as creative or not.
The act of living might then be more accurately described as the “art of living” for as with art, everything is open to interpretation, and there is no “right” way to produce it. Each life is also then an original, which may be imitated or reproduced but never exactly replicated.
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So, if you’re one of those individuals who fails to appreciate their creative capabilities, I challenge you to consider this perspective. With every breath you take, you’re adding value to the canvas upon which you are painting the picture of your life. Each decision is a brush stroke that adds not only color but texture to your masterpiece. Every belief is simply a rule by which you apply color and texture to your unique work of art.
By acknowledging the creative control you wield over your life, you become free to experiment, to dabble, to mix medias and to explore techniques. Some you’ll embrace and others you will discard. It really doesn’t matter, because as with all art, the ultimate experience is in the creation of it!
Give yourself permission to embrace your creativity. Look around you. Just look at the life that you have created. YOU. Yes, YOU have created this. What a magnificent artist you are! Extraordinarily creative! And I stand in awe of the wonder that YOU have brought into this world!
