Purposefully Creative with April

Today I’m traveling and thinking about life’s journey.

We all start at one place and then end up in another. The journey we take depends on many variables because we are individuals and have different wants and needs. We are born into a place predestined for us.

We begin innocent and pure with countless gifts and blessings. We go through life with intention of learning and growing. This happens naturally even if we don’t try.

We don’t learn how to breathe, we just do.

We don’t learn how to see, we just do.

We don’t manipulate our own muscles and organs to grow, or make our cells divide into new cells because they do it naturally with a predetermined law.

Same thing with creativity- we are born with it. We are born with wonder and an inquisitive nature. We naturally want to learn and create to find answers to our questions.

I was born in Georgia during the bicentennial year of 1976 in the US. I now live in Pennsylvania. I am traveling today from Egypt back to New York in the US. We never know where life will take us until we follow the path in front of us.

It’s about the journey and not the destination.

We have to enjoy and appreciate each day along the way.

And love who comes across our path or who chooses to walk along side us.

Being creative means we can adjust to whatever comes our way with contentment. We make a conscious choice and cope with the outcome or celebrate the blessing. Either way, we journey along and make a choice to be happy or let the trials get us down.

I choose happiness and joy and love and blessings. I choose to be creative and enjoy life’s journey and the scenery along the way.

Where will your creativity take you?

Imagine a canvas.

Plain, white, bland, boring, and alone…. It is there… it is waiting…

it is on a shelf or leaning against the wall or even on an easel ready to be painted. Maybe it’s even just a roll of unprimed canvas that’s waiting to be cut to size and stretched on a wooden frame. Just a canvas. A fabric of basic woven material.

Now, imagine a paintbrush.

It has fine hairs held by a metal band and attached to a wooden handle. It may have a friend or two in the jar that come in different sizes and shapes and stiffness and softness. They each have their own purpose. Their own duty. To carry paint and deliver it in a variety of ways according to how they’re made. Some brushes get taken care of well and stay pristine, while others take a beating and are worn out from overuse and poor care. But it’s there waiting to be used. Waiting just like the canvas. 

What if you were the paintbrush and your life is the canvas? What would you do with the paint? How would you use the tools you have?

Using a creative mindset you can answer these questions.

I have asked myself this often and the best way to get the answer you seek is to think about what you want to see.

Think about the outcome you want to have and then do what I call “ map your canvas” by making a plan to show areas you want to focus on in your project.

This can be applied to life in general. We all have creativity inside us and have the power to use it. We have to unwrap the canvas and take off the spider webs from storage so to speak.

Dust off your canvas and start painting your life masterpiece!