Strength in Spontaneity...

Creativity is so spontaneous! A person cannot plan when a creative idea will hit them: the perfect inspiration for a story, the ideal image for a photo, or the best location to paint a picture. When these creative juices start flowing there is usually no way to stop them and if someone waits to act on that inspiration, the later efforts will be in vain - there is no way to reproduce creativity.

On a beautiful, sunny afternoon I came across a "traveling artist". Katie was on an extended roadtrip around the Northeast and New England states, just traveling from town to town, experiencing each region and painting pictures. As she passed this brightly painted house she suddenly knew that was her "location" - she had to capture that old house on canvas! If she had waited the sun would have moved, the shadows would be different and the moment would have been lost. If she had waited her inspiration would have been gone and the painting not as she originally imagined it to be.


How often in life do you wait for the ideal moment to act, only to find you have missed your opportunity?

How many times have great ideas come to you at the spur of the moment - usually your best ideas?

Have you ever "taken to the road" to see what you will experience?


Sometimes during the work day you need to just get away - change your surroundings and see what great ideas will start to flow. Even though everything, for the most part, is easily accessible when I'm sitting at my desk, occasionally I like to work someplace else. During the summer I like to go sit outside and take in the warm, sunny weather; when the temperature drops I remain inside but work someplace other than my office. I follow these spontaneous urges because they usually lead to my best work - especially when I am editing and need to be creative. If I force myself to sit at my desk and work, even though I want to be sitting outside at a picnic table, I won't be very productive.

Spontaneity even goes beyond where you physically work and reaches into how you approach business. Just like this artist with her painting, or me when I am capturing video, sometimes you have to act in the moment. While at a networking event, if you see someone you have wanted to meet simply walk over and introduce yourself; or if you have a great new idea of how to expand business sit down and start developing it...don't wait a couple days, by that time the excitement has subsided! Like I said, sometimes being spontaneous leads to your best ideas.

That's the Golden Perspective...what's yours?

PS - To view more pictures of this "traveling artist" at work or learn more about her paintings visit Golden Pepper Productions on Facebook!