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Follow that!!

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Follow that!!

That is always the challenge when you create something that others really love, share and comment on.

A seed of doubt creeps in and then you think ‘maybe that was a one-off’ or ‘maybe it was a fluke and the next thing I create won’t be as good’.

The reality is, it wasn’t a fluke or a one-off. It was the result of all the unique talent we all have, and the only way to find out is to share again, and again, and again. It was the result of years of trying, adapting, modifying and learning.

The thing is keep going with your creating, and the only time to stop is when you have grown tired of creating. Once you reach that point, then the point of life has ended. We are here to create, to make, to build, to do something unique that will make a difference and leave a legacy.

We all have an obligation to use this once in an eternity gift of a lifetime. Why waste it never finding out what we are truly capable of creating? Why waste it fulfilling another person’s dream? Why waste it never trying? Why not create and keep creating? There is no other reason to live.

Being naked is the new safe

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It is interesting that once you ‘let the cat out of the bag’, once you make a public statement, then you run the risk of being ridiculed and you risk losing your credibility. But that’s fine, as that is where we all need to be. It is the brave first step into the world of doing something different.

Those who choose that option have dared to be different, dared to break free from the shackles.

We need to be driven to a new area of ‘safety’, and that new ‘safe’ zone is one where there is constant risk. We need to feel naked and vulnerable. Risk is what drives us to create, to be inspirational, to stand up and be counted. It leads to us choosing ourselves, instead of constantly waiting to be picked in the lottery of life by others.

Let’s get on the ‘roulette wheel’ and risk a few spins, risky is the new safe.

In today’s totally homogenised, standardised, mechanised, industrialised, sterile, controlled and numb world, the only way to be successful is to break free of the status quo, become a heretic, think and do different, create your own art and be yourself.

It means becoming totally vulnerable, becoming naked. This will enable us to build real connection with others who share our inspiration. In the post industrialised world that we now enter, the new crafts people will be the person who dares to be different, and get naked and exposed to the world with their new ideas.

Let’s liberate ourselves from this sterile industrialised world.