Creating anything just takes starting. Sometimes it takes starting over, or re-starting or refining an idea. But creation lives in action. So you actually have to start. From there you can build, experiment, have learning experiences (fewer if you learn from the examples of others and get help and support where you need it), and grow the project.
When you start, other things happen. The invisible forces of nature are also called into action. Synchronicity, serendipity, precession, perturbation – my personal favorites – and a host of other natural laws are set into motion, too.
This poem has always said it best for me:
Commitment
Until one is committed
there is hesitancy,
the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation)
there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which
kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
that the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves, too.
All sorts of things occur to help one
that would otherwise never have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from decision,
raising in one’s favor
all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance,
which no man could have dreamt
would have come his way.
I have leaned a deep respect
for one of Goethe’s couplets:
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can . . . begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
— W.N. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition
To what act of creation will you commit yourself to start? You might be amazed to see where things go from there. How can I and the team here at Creating Legacy help?