The part about not forcing timing really resonated with me. Sometimes I want something to happen quickly and I’m dependent on others doing their part of a project but instead they are sitting on the couch smoking a bowl. I need to let them do their part in their time even if it affects me. For example my friends and I were about to embark on a great journey and needed to leave for the airport. A couple of my friends weren’t ready and rather than force them out the door we let them take their time and we missed the flight. Forcing them out the door and making a flight would have undermined the whole point of the international journey. It also would have brought up painful childhood issues for them, like forcing them to get to school on time or societal BS like that. Mozart, Beethoven and Picasso all sat around refusing to paint or compose for years and years and years until they were “inspired and ready “. Doing something on a daily or a consistent basis is foolish. The greatest tool of the worlds best athletes artists and inventors is the couch. They all just sat on it endlessly until divine inspiration picked them up and did their work for them.

I’m planning on writing the Great American novel one day. One day… for now, rather than writing every day and honing my skills and pushing through the creative pain artists often feel, I’m just hanging out looking for inspiration. I think it’s going to be a great one… I haven’t waited long enough, but when I have, look out world because here I come!