"If you have an idea, get it out of your head. Create a prototype, get it into the world and then do it. Do it on a small scale. Make something you can hold." What's your idea? You know - that spark you keep dreaming about and doodling while you're on the phone. Draw it out, create something and tell someone else about it. Make it real, and start living your passion.
I read this on a blog, and it made me think – maybe I’m a touch ADD. My head is about to explode with ideas. I always have unfinished projects, ideas for books, artwork I want to pursue and craft projects I'd like to do with the kids. And then there’s my work, my blogs, my photos, homemade gifts, household projects, and the list goes on…and on.
Right now, I have this great business idea spinning around in my head so fast and no time to sit down and develop it. Yet I’m obsessed with it. Add that to my feelings that I could not seem to juggle the work-life balance of full-time management in the corporate world. My creativity feels stifled during the bulk of my 40-hour work week. I have no voice; my ideas and opinions, they don’t count; and I feel integrity is at stake. And so I’m definitely not living my passion, despite the great-paying job that others would desperately chase in this economy. Here I am, running from it. It makes me sad for myself, like something is wrong with me. I feel like I don’t fit in. Like I don't appreciate an opportunity. When when I attempt it, I feel like a Stepford employee. That’s just sad, too. It seems I've lost my joy.
I want to create. I want to unleash my ideas. That’s what I would encourage my children to do. “Have faith, face your doubts, be courageous and chase your dreams,” I would tell them. So why is it so hard for me to convince myself? Why is my own self-confidence so beaten down? It's unlike me. I'm wondering...what do I have to lose?
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