Comments on: The Delay Factor: Transforming Creative Opportunities into Creativity Now http://worklifetransformations.com/2009/12/10/the-delay-factor-transforming-creative-opportunities-to-creativity-now/ Tue, 18 May 2010 22:29:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: karentax http://worklifetransformations.com/2009/12/10/the-delay-factor-transforming-creative-opportunities-to-creativity-now/comment-page-1/#comment-87 karentax Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:35:30 +0000 http://blog.iam-learning-network.com/?p=390#comment-87 Shannon, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'm curious about how being a planner contributes to delay. What do you think is the allure of planning? How does it serve you (it must give you something if you do it!)? I think it's a really good point! Some ways I've experienced planning as a way to delay: I plan when I'm scared, when the uncertainty I am facing is uncomfortable and I want to put a face to it. What I'm suggesting with 'creativity now' as a strategy is to dive headlong into uncertainty with our joy and creative passions and see what the uncertainty reveals to us - while were in the middle of it - before trying to put a face on it. Our creative energy will ensure something good for everyone will emerge. But oh, is this a major leap of faith! I wish you a 2010 full of joyful writing Shannon! --Karen Shannon,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I’m curious about how being a planner contributes to delay. What do you think is the allure of planning? How does it serve you (it must give you something if you do it!)? I think it’s a really good point!

Some ways I’ve experienced planning as a way to delay: I plan when I’m scared, when the uncertainty I am facing is uncomfortable and I want to put a face to it.

What I’m suggesting with ‘creativity now’ as a strategy is to dive headlong into uncertainty with our joy and creative passions and see what the uncertainty reveals to us – while were in the middle of it – before trying to put a face on it. Our creative energy will ensure something good for everyone will emerge. But oh, is this a major leap of faith!

I wish you a 2010 full of joyful writing Shannon!
–Karen

]]> By: Shannon http://worklifetransformations.com/2009/12/10/the-delay-factor-transforming-creative-opportunities-to-creativity-now/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Shannon Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:01:37 +0000 http://blog.iam-learning-network.com/?p=390#comment-85 Timely post. I am susceptible to delay patterns. I think it's a problematic side effect of being a good planner. I spend so much time planning that I don't do much doing. Writing has always brought me joy, my whole life. But I tend to delay until I have a worthwhile project. My goal for 2010 is to write for a significant amount of time every day, project or no. I want to recapture that feeling I had as a young writer, taking joy just in the act of creation, without worrying so much about what the end goal would be or whether it was worthwhile enough. Timely post. I am susceptible to delay patterns. I think it’s a problematic side effect of being a good planner. I spend so much time planning that I don’t do much doing.

Writing has always brought me joy, my whole life. But I tend to delay until I have a worthwhile project. My goal for 2010 is to write for a significant amount of time every day, project or no. I want to recapture that feeling I had as a young writer, taking joy just in the act of creation, without worrying so much about what the end goal would be or whether it was worthwhile enough.

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