You have an idea, a project in mind, and you want to try it. Maybe it’s an app concept, that book you keep talking about, a workshop, building a community, or that business idea you keep dancing around with before bed and first thing in the morning as you make coffee.

How hard are you willing to work at what you want?

Don’t wait for it to happen magically or for someone else to suggest and build it. But take the nugget of inspiration you have and shape it into a living project that matters to you, and also because it has value for others.

Once you decide to act, you’ll want to create a strategic plan, figuring out what might work and what might not. Don’t aim for perfection or proving you’re right; simply think and build your tactics step by step.

Many people wait too long to do and build their idea because they are afraid of failure, judgment, and commitment.

– What are your resources?

– What do you already have in your toolbox that you’re underestimating or forgetting?

– What medium will it live in?

– What is your timeline?

– What is the now picture, and what does the future big dream opening look like?

– What models have worked for others that you can learn from?

Connect with others. Who will be your trusted team of 1–2–3, maybe 4 other people, to help you get your project off the ground? Be wise about your collaborators. Listen to them. Meet up regularly for a set amount of time. Brainstorm. Everything has value.

Together you’ll try – stop – start – reset – try again – compromise – throw it all out and start over. Watch out for resistance, too, because that thing of darkness will want to smash your creative baby against the rocks.

Creativity is an exciting process. Sit with it. See what bubbles up and washes onto shore. Trust yourself, others, and the outside world. Trust your instincts, synchronicities, your logic, as well as what your heart tells you.

Stop waiting and start doing. Don’t let your best ideas be trapped silently in your mind. Pick one idea and take one achievable action step to make it happen.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

Please share this Daily with your creative tribes.
This also is key to think about – Create with the Unknown.

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