The Direction of Intention

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Truly powerful people know that creativity is nothing more than your capacity to step into uncertainty. Truly powerful people know that every person has this capacity – it is not a divine gift bestowed on the few – it is a divine gift given to us all. It comes standard with every model.

So what happens? Most people by age 30 will tell you that they aren’t very creative. Most children by age 10 will be timid to try something that they don’t already know how to do; they will perform the “right answer” but will avoid the deeper waters of “not knowing.”

It is a matter of orientation, of where you choose to place your focus. If you are oriented to the product (as are we all) or the outcome or the answer (all things measurable), you will come to believe that to be creative is a to make stuff and some people make stuff called art. If you are oriented toward the process, your focus is on the relationships, on the quality of the engagement – there may be stuff called art but it is a by-product of a way of being. The art is in the engagement (and we are nothing if not an ongoing relationship).

The most creative thing you do – and you do it every moment of every day – is tell yourself the story of yourself. Every story has a point of view. Yours can be on the things you produce, the things you achieve. You can tell a story of separation and stuff (some of it called art). Or, yours can be on the safari, the adventure of your life as you engage with the wild unknowable experiences that await unseen just round the bend.

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