Creative Success: The Razor Thin Line Between Achieving And Not Achieving Your Creative Ambitions
Creative Success is so much closer than you realise. In fact its just one simple step away.
Before you turn away in disbelief, consider this:
Your personal idea and vision of success in your creative life is unique to you.
It cant be decided by anyone else.
Even if you have role models or creative heroes you look up to, what you achieve creatively in your life has never been achieved by anyone before you and will never be achieved by anyone after you.
Its uniquely yours and there for the taking.
Whether you choose to take it though, and how much you take, how much success you experience, depends entirely on one thing.
Its the same razor thin line thats the difference between success and failure, achieving and not achieving, in any other area of life.
So what is this one single crucial element?
Consistent Action.
You can be one of the most wonderful, creative and imaginative people that ever lived, and have a endless cascade of incredible ideas and innovations tumbling through your mind, but without taking action on them, they mean very little.
Think of a few of your favourite writers, musicians, or other artists in creative fields youre involved in.
The fact that youre aware of their work is because they took action with their creativity.
At some point they picked up a pen, sat down at a piano, or stepped up to a waiting canvas and took the brave step of putting the creative ideas in their minds down into a recordable form.
And, with some persistence, once theyd documented their creative ideas in this way, they took further action to get their art, their creative work, out into the world. Which is how you came across them.
Now consider this:
What if for every great artist you admire, there are a dozen others, equally talented, ambitious and potentially creative in their own way, just waiting to put their dormant creativity into some recorded form?
Its quite possible. In fact more than that, its highly likely.
The difference between the artists we know and admire and those we dont know, who may be equally talented, and whos work may be just as capable of stirring our souls and leaving us rapt in awe, is again down to that one razor thin line.
They take action and create. Or they dont.
So, how do you fit in to this scale? Which side of the razors edge are you on? Or maybe youre currently tiptoeing right along it, on the brink of taking major, significant action?
Whether that action is the creating itself, or taking steps to get what youve already created out to an appreciative audience, I challenge you to take that action today. Right away.
Write that chapter, phone that magazine editor. Mix that song, put it up on online. Frame that photo collection, contact those galleries.
It may sound simplistic, but ultimately consistent action is the only way to creative success.
The choice is yours. What are you going to do?
Copyright 2007 Dan Goodwin
Creativity Coach Dan Goodwin is the author of Create Create!, a FREE twice monthly ezine for people who want simple and powerful articles, tips and exercises to help them unleash their creative talents. Sign up right now and get your FREE Explode Your Creativity! Action Workbook, at http://www.CoachCreative.com
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