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Lemons and rubber gloves

April 19, 2015

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Inspiration

What is Inspiration, ..now? There are moments, events in time and places, experiences in my life when I feel incredibly inspired to create. I am a creative person and I feel submerged in time when I am in flow of creativity. It could be having just left an art museum, painting or drawing, even making lego with my kids. Sometimes, when writing too but I don’t think I have really done enough of that to know yet for sure. Then there is this idea of collective unconscious. This feeling or belief of simple inference that we somehow are made up of and led forward not just by each and every one of our own individual experiences, but through the experiences of those closest to us and even of our ancestors who have gone before us. Each and every experience is programmed into our existence that has come through previous generations. Perhaps it is a natural phenomena that happens to allow us to continually evolve as a human species. What has this got to do with inspiration? I

How have you changed... lately? Last week, last month.. last year?

This is a question that came up in a book I am reading about Leadership. I have started drawing again. I have started reading again only this time with conviction, with a proven method to help understand, learn and enjoy more; that is by keeping a notepad and pen by my side and taking notes on what I read, making sure I understand everything the author is saying before moving on. In the past, I read just to try and finish the book, to be able to say I have read some more. It is a great feeling to finish a book and that is all I was after, I wasn't too bothered about understanding the content or thinking in any great depth about the main points the author was making. I would constantly check the page numbers to see how much was left to finish. I have always known but now I realise how pointless this is, it defeats the purpose of reading anything in the first place! I have regained my desire to start painting again, with already a strong project in mind and some p

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