Start Somewhere, Anywhere

It can be hard to decide on where to begin sometimes. In each area of creative work, we are often faced with a few options. Indecisiveness is difficult to confront. It stops us in our tracks.

If you are working on music for example, you might have a few different types of styles that you like to work in. So on a random Thursday morning, which style do you choose? Or you have an idea for redoing your website, but you don’t know which platform to pick.

“Pick a card, any card from the deck”, is the way a lot of card tricks begin. I like this idea.

Go with your gut and just pick something. And then the magic can begin. You’ve made a choice and you can start to realize that the choice doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that you give some time and space to let ideas take shape.

Call to mind the image of someone working on pottery. What is this, a wet blob of clay that they begin with? It could be anything! All the magic is in this process of working that blob into something.

Yet oftentimes we don’t want to sit down to shape the blob because we’re afraid of what might happen. We’re afraid of the blob collapsing on us.

When we hit a moment of failure we can throw it back into the ether. The void of formless ideas. The song that didn’t work out will stay in our subconscious and come back another time when it’s right, as a new song that you’re able to work with.