The One Decision That Defines Our Lives
Life is short.
Creative purpose and success boil down to a single internal battle.
It’s the creative battle between two life-defining forces.
Our inner desire
Our inner resistance
How we view our lives at the end will be through the lens of one of these two forces.
Our inner desire is our creative expression.
Our inner resistance is the fear and insecurity that blocks it.
You have experienced this battle, perhaps without realising it.
You know you have a lot of potential. But you can’t quite seem to access it, right?
This is your inner creative battle.
Watch this video to truly understand the power of your inner battle
Grammy Award Winner finally unlocks creative success after a lost decade of fear
James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem believed he was lazy and a complete and utter failure.
It stole a decade of his life until he realised one thing.
Thought Experiment
🤷 Which fear do you fear most?
The fear of never fulfilling your creative potential?
The fear of failing and looking cringe in front of others?
That’s it. That is the single choice in a creative life.
Creativity is not just something we do.
It’s who we are.
It’s our identity.
And our identity is entirely shaped by this internal battle.
Are we the type of people who find the courage to follow our inner desires?
Or do we succumb to our fears to live a small life of self-imposed mediocrity?
Are we fighters? Creative beings expressing ourselves?
Or are we consumers? By standers in our own lives?
So here are a few questions to journal on.
What would you create if you could not fail?
What would you do if you knew it would work out?
Then ask yourself this…
Which fear do you fear most?
The fear of never fulfilling your creative potential?
Or the fear of failing and looking cringe in front of others?
Both paths are hard.
Either way, it’s a shit salad.
We all have to eat shit salads.
The level of fulfilment and success in creative life will be determined by which shit salad you choose.
Your inner desire, or your inner resistance?