The Greatest Advice Ever!

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Today I just wanted to drop a line and wish you all the best during this holiday season and looking forward to the New Year. I also wanted to share this article with you. It’s called “The Greatest Advice Ever.”

I found this content particularly applicable to those of us who struggle with letting go in our creative journey.

I’m not sure if you have time to read right now, but I hope you make some time. If not now, the read would be a great New Year’s reflection. I’ve attached a link to the whole post, but also included the applicable section below for your immediate reading.

REMAIN CHILDLIKE!

Again, not childish or infantile, but childlike. Retain a playful attitude both to life and whatever visions you have for it. In simple, practical terms, this could be described as follows:

Openess: Be adventurous. Be curious and eager to learn. Acknowledge the wonder of life and the amazing experience it brings. Discovery in life is just as important as creation. Be genuine and tolerant… to life itself, to yourself, and to other people. As for life itself, things often don’t come in the way you envisioned or hoped, and your greatest opportunities are often disguised as your biggest problems or challenges. Instead of judging people, be curious and interested in their deeper motivations and drives. In doing so, you’ll implicitly do the same for yourself. And as you allow other people to be their unique self, you’ll implicitly make it easier for yourself to be your unique, authentic self.

Generousity: By that, I particularly mean generous with your natural talents, strengths, and gifts. In doing so, you’ll enjoy yourself, and might very well be able to add value to other people in one way or the other. As a result, your implicit intent will remain clear around your explicit vision, and is characterized by freedom from emotional attachments and/or aversions. Your vision becomes a mere playful desire, not the one pivot point on which all your contentment and fulfillment life hinges.

Flexibility: Discovery in life is just as important as creation. Everything in life is in flux. So are you. You may want something different tomorrow than you want today. Again, it’s good to have a vision and stick to it in order to retain a significant degree of focus. But just like you as a person, your visions may evolve. Don’t try to stop that flow. Go with it. This is why it’s so important to remain in ‘creative mode’ in order to keep out of "reactive mode:" A reactive vision’ is fleeting, easily swayed by the ever-changing emotional currents of your own personal world and conditioned values and beliefs. Your focus will tend to fly from one thing to the next. Through a conscious practice to remain childlike, you remove these from the mix, and your connection and impact on reality becomes increasingly more evident. From there, you can really start to consciously exploit your power of manifestation for any genuine goal or vision yoThrough a conscious practice to remain childlike, you remove these from the mix, and your connection and impact on reality becomes increasingly more evident. From there, you can really start to consciously exploit your power of manifestation for any genuine goal or vision you get in mind, and it will begin to feel more and more natural. So in closing, only one question remains…

How To Practice This?

I’m assuming you have a creative vision that’s pure and didn’t merely spin from a reactive motivation. Otherwise, come up with one. Be a kid again: playfully fantasize. What would be a cool experience (taking your problems and issues completely out of the equation for the moment)? Now to deliberately retain a childlike atmosphere around whatever creative vision you have, keep asking yourself a few simple questions on a continuous basis, all starting with the powerful word "how:" “

How can I be more open?”

How can I be more trusting?

How can I be more sincere and genuine to myself, and generous of myself?

Keep up this childlike attitude around your vision, and before long, amazing things will begin to happen. Under these conditions, the famous line becomes relevant: “Be careful what you ask for, because you might get it…” Doors will start opening up in life that you couldn’t even fathom. And when such opportunities present themselves, that’s when you acknowledge them and take explicit actions to actualize them. (Just keep an eye out so you’ll actually notice them…) And that’s how life becomes an exhilarating journey.

To conclude with another famous line capturing what could be the greatest advice of all time: “And a little child shall lead them…”

See you in 2023!

KME4ART

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