How can ideas not be good? Ideas are ideas. That’s what they are. Some we might follow and like, some we might follow and not like. But why would we not follow an idea? When we limit it to creative ideas, right. When we talk just about creative ideas. Why would we not follow it and see where it leads. As creatives, when we label an idea as bad, as not good. We take away all the potential of that idea. It sounds quite sad. Creative ideas feel like my inner child wanting to go on an adventure. Wanting to explore. Wanting to discover. At least give that inner child the benevolence to work with its ideas. Often they turn out to be rather cool. It’s not surprising, you as a child were really cool. Of course. All children are cool. You just got to give them the right conditions to let them express their authenticity. And just like when you were a kid, when you follow an idea and it turns out you don’t like it, you change the rules. You change the idea, you allow it to evolve or you get rid of it all together. That’s the game we are all playing. A game of ideas and of rules. And when one doesn’t serve us anymore, we have the innate capacity to change it. What rules are you still following that don’t serve you anymore? Right? Serve. As In, rules are here to serve us. We’re not here to serve the rules, right? How many rules are we serving that don’t serve us anymore?
Think about it, why were all rules invented? To help us, right? If they don’t serve us anymore, or if certain rules were made with only the benefit of a few over the benefit of most, why are we still following them? Why don’t we invent our own rules? Rules that allow us to live in peace again? Why don’t we invent rules that give us space to be ourselves again? Why don’t we invent some new rules now?
I’ll get my creative side with me. Let’s invent some new rules for myself.
- When I have an idea I like, I may feel free to follow it.
- When I am following an idea which I don’t like anymore, I may feel free to stop following it.
- When I don’t know, I may give myself time to receive clarity.
- When I am following an idea, at any moment, I may feel free to adjust it.
- I don’t have to keep track of all the changes I made.
- If I feel good, then I don’t have to worry about remembering all the realisations I have made.
- If I feel good, then I can rest in feeling good without reason.
- If I want to write something I can write that without needing a reason.
- I don’t have to try to fit the now in patterns and experiences of the past for the sake of continuity.
- Not everything has to make sense.