Refilling the Well

Wait a minute. Don’t start thinking you have to go find some “authority” and ask for their permission to be creative. You don’t have to do that at all.

The thing you need to do is to give yourself permission.

Give yourself permission to write, to draw, to dance, to cook.  To imagine, to daydream.

To create.

Give yourself permission to write the worst drivel in the world, paint or draw the worst scribbles imaginable, cook the worst dish ever.

No, you won’t do the “worst ever.”  But the act of giving yourself permission is twofold.

Besides, you can always edit bad writing, paint over mistakes in art, tear out rows of crochet. You can’t do anything to nothing.

Giving yourself permission starts to break down the walls you’ve built around yourself saying you can’t because you “aren’t creative.”  It silences the inner you that says it’s bad, wrong, ugly, etc.

Giving yourself permission to create and to do the worst frees you to do what you want.  You can evaluate the results later.

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