“Plan your exit strategy,” Allison Abbott.  This is an important concept to follow up on creativity and inspiration.  When something calls to us and we know it’s more than a whim, we need to explore the options of it.  If we find that it’s more than a passing thing, we need to turn creativity into action.  And as we spoke about yesterday, creativity and inspiration aren’t limited to certain hours in the day so we can’t try and harness something we know nothing about.  We have to spend time with it and understand it, especially if it is a recurring thought. We can’t ignore something that calls to us and expect to learn about it in a meaningful way, and if it is a recurring theme in our train of thought, then this is something that may have additional possibilities for us.  We need to give it time to unfold especially if what we are doing isn’t working and we feel inspiration toward something.  Sometimes we need to consider that there is a different way and that inspiration may be the way out.  We need to step out of our comfort zone and start breaking down the box.  Only then will we bring enough light to the situation to see a way out.  And once we see the way, we may discover that there is something more for us, something else we may want that we hadn’t considered previously. 

If we find excitement in a real possibility of something new, the question then becomes can make an actual plan to turn our lives into what we want?  These scenarios are not like a light switch where we simply turn off what we’ve been doing and turn on a light in a new room.  Sure, we can finish what we are doing in one room and turn off the light, but when we enter the next room we may have to install the lightbulb or we may have to clean and organize before things fall into place how we envision them.  We may even have to do some research on how we want the build to look and find out what we need to do to make it work.  Life is a funny balance of planning and allowing, steering and being steered.  We know that most things don’t go exactly according to plan but we also know that if there is too loose a structure, things won’t happen either.  Talk does very little but so does focus on ineffective tasks.  In other words, we can’t do for the sake of doing because that’s just movement.  We need movement that creates progress and innovates and opens doors to new possibilities—even if that’s just creating opportunities for discovery.  We need to find feasible, real actions and make sure they align. 

All of this comes down to clarity of purpose.  We can do anything we want in life, truly.  I don’t claim that all possibilities are open to every person at any time, that’s not what I’m talking about.  We aren’t meant to do all the things, to be all the things, to know all the things—that’s why we have other people in this world so we can complement and create and collaborate and innovate.  But we CAN do all of the things we are meant to do, we just need to believe and take risks and plan a way out of what we know so we can enter a new realm and make the unknown familiar.  That is how we grow and develop.  We imagine, we decide, we learn, we plan, we execute.  Those things that we imagine are meant to be unleashed from our brains so we can make a new reality.  The possibilities are endless even if it’s a focused area.  Become the expert, answer the call to curiosity and do it over and over again until we have such a wide berth that we become the expert and suddenly we are out of the previous confines of what we knew because we believe differently.  We follow that belief to create those possibilities.  Nothing is permanent as long as we keep our minds open to the different possibilities, the calling. All we have to do is answer and the rest falls into place—the plan makes sense and we attach real action to it and suddenly we are living that vision. With real purpose we have a way out.