Lesson #5: Create

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This is the both the easiest and the hardest part.  Make stuff.  Create.  If you’ve followed your curiosity, looked into a few things and begun to imagine, you are ready to make something.

You may still be lost.  You may still be shrugging your shoulders.  Well, for the first group of people, dive in.  Make that cake shaped like a rocket ship.  You’ve been thinking about it and you’re ready to do it.  Or unveil your new signature move at the basketball game.

The funny thing about creating is that, when all the conditions are right, it rolls right out of you.  That’s the way it was with my book, Donuthead. I didn’t even know I was ready to write it, but writing it was the easiest thing in the world.  The first time.  I wrote it more than once.  I wrote it…well, more than twenty times.  And it changed a lot.



Donuthead...so easy to write...the first time

So the point here is, if you’re ready, dive in.  If you’re not ready.  If you’re sitting around batting your eyelashes and shrugging your shoulders, then just create something.  Get out the old legos and build a castle.  Make a new dinosaur out of sidewalk chalk.  You know the old saying, “Any creating helps all creating?”  Of course, you don’t know it. I  just made it up.  I created it!  But it’s true.  We will come back to lesson #5 again and again.  But there’s a funny thing about creating.  There’s not much to say about it.  You’re either ready or you aren’t.  And when you are—it’s the easiest thing in the world.