I spend a lot of my time in my head. Thinking, consuming content, being distracted. Sometimes being inspired. On the other hand, I don’t spend nearly enough time creating.
I often think of myself as a hack– as a graphic designer, as a web designer, as a photographer. Heck, I might even be a hack at life. Why? What does it mean to be a hack? In my brain, anyways, it simply means I haven’t applied myself to the extent that I’m capable. I haven’t taken what I’ve learned and made it real by putting it to use.
All things are created spiritually before they physically manifest in life. One of my problems is that I often do not carry ideas through to completion. They stay upstairs until they fizzle and fade away. (This is the way many blog posts go, heh. I have an idea, thoughts I want to write down… but then I never take the time to do it, and those thoughts fade.)
So in short, I don’t create enough in the physical world. It boggles the mind, because creating is one of the most satisfying things you can do, and also one of the best ways to learn and grow. Everything you know in your mind is of little worth if it only stays there.
It’s something I need to figure out, so I’m thinking out loud here on the blog. How to find the discipline to sit down and focus. To let go of distraction and just create. Because who even knows what I’m capable of if I would just try? Sometimes I look at what I do create and think I could do so much better…
(tomorrow is an all day photography event held locally called PhotoCamp Utah 2010. Totally looking forward to some inspiration!)
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I almost hate how much this applies to me, too. I have two stories in progress (and they may not be fantastic, but they’re not totally stupid, either), and I’m stalled on both. Which is lame, because when I go back and read what I’ve taken the time to write, I always think, “Woah…I wrote that?”
Jesse and I have this theory about people who do great things. Sometimes it’s not because they’re super talented, or even destined to do those things, but they actually take the time to finish something they start. Sometimes that’s more of a talent than anything.