“The world belongs to the energetic.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s easy to blame our failure to meet our goals or to live our dream lives on a lack of energy, and we don’t always stop to think about the quality of energy in our lives. Yet we can choose to create and manage our own energy flow.
Think of an instance when you’ve been so involved in an activity that you’ve lost track of time, and then identity the passions and energies you were feeding. Who was there with you? What were you doing? What will you do to make time for moments like that one more often?
Julia E. via ralphwaldoemerson.me
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This is a big one for me. Realizing that my passion really does lie in music, design, television, radio, the Philippines, and publishing - and figuring out ways to nurture all of those along with creativity’s other limbs, to become self-sufficient, independent sources of productivity and growth - both on a personal level, and for others.
I’m a creative industry kid.
Because I get lost in making mixtapes. I get lost in watching interviews of individuals that have been able to move me with things they have created, or generate millions of dollars doing something creative in nature. I get giddy at the thought of creating a path to build momentum towards things like clothing lines, and radio shows, and magazines, and live musical performances. I will sit by the DJ booth and appreciate the selection, peer over shoulders at Photoshop canvasses filled with designs soon to be adopted onto shirts. If you are a musician, or a dancer, or a poet - I will give you homework (much like this writing prompt) to push you. I will then ask about how you’re making, attracting, saving your income (of the emotional, spiritual, mental, and financial kind). I think you’re most attractive when you’re doing something you’re passionate about, and will be the first to tell you so.
I also love words.
Spoken, sung, written, rhymed, sketched, printed, carved, on jewelry, tattooed, sewn, painted, molded, pictured.
Words.
Harnessing the power of words to leave the world better than when I found it.
Everything I’ve committed to for the next ten years, has something to do with developing and growing (it, in, and with) — the cultures of everything I’ve mentioned.
And while I won’t name names of the people that fuel, encourage, thought provoke, and spark me (for they are my secret weapons, and I feel like saying their names will compromise the magic), I know they are there, and all I do is inspired and dedicated to them.
What about you?
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