 Hey guys, greetings from my little desert hideaway here in Arizona. I wanted to jump on Insta to just talk a bit about creativity. I was in New York on the weekend and I was asked several questions about the challenges and complexities of working with and building creative teams and leading creative people. And here's a few things I want to just say that might be helpful to you guys today that are either in a creative team or you're leading a creative team. I think first of all, because creative people struggle sometimes, as we all do, creative people can have a very sensitive ego and be very sensitive emotionally and to criticism and feedback. Then I think sometimes you have to, as a leader of creatives, wear three hats. Some days you're the drill sergeant, some days you're the fan club president and some days you are the therapist. I think we're all those things to creative people. I think sometimes the drill sergeant's job is to keep us all on task because we can get so involved in the creative side of it. We don't actually produce anything, so sometimes you're the drill sergeant, keeping it all moving. Sometimes you're the fan club president, making sure you cheer them on and celebrate small wins and celebrate creative contribution. And sometimes you're the therapist sitting with creative people listening to their struggles, their disappointments, their non-belief in themselves. They're feeling non-appreciated. So sometimes you're the therapist as well. If you can master those three roles as a leader of creative people, drill sergeant, fan club president and therapist, then you will be a God-centered creative people if you can swap hats between those three roles that often leading developing creatives requires from us. I think secondly, tranquility breeds creativity is what I've discovered in life. Often it is your tranquility that has been attacked in order to block your creativity. So sometimes we feel our creativity has been attacked but it is your peace, your calm, your stillness that is under threat because creativity is a byproduct of that. So if you stop being tranquil, if you lose tranquility, if you lose that inner sense of calm and stillness from which great creativity flows, then we lose a creative outcome because we didn't realize how important tranquility was to that process. So tranquility breeds creativity. So stick around things, people, situations, environments that make you tranquil. Stay around people, environments, mindsets, atmospheres, climates that foster in you inner calm and tranquility and stillness because that will be the best version of you with regard to creativity. So tranquility breeds creativity is what I've discovered in life. Thirdly, I want to say creativity is the opposite of helplessness. You would think power will be the opposite of helplessness but I think creativity is because creativity is the self-empowerment to create an off-rump and exit from a sense of stuckness and helplessness even perhaps depression in life. So I think creativity is a superpower. Creativity is the ability to create yourself out of, away from, a sense of internal stuckness. So creativity to me becomes the opposite and the antidote of a sense of helplessness. If you're listening to this and feel you're in a season of stuckness or helplessness in your life, rather than wait for it to pass or rather than hope that somebody will come and give you a sense of empowerment or believe in you or elevate you out of your helplessness then begin to be creative instead. Creativity is the off-rump from helplessness in so many ways we have not figured out yet as human beings. So I want to think about that, you creative guys and even if you don't feel you're a creative type it brings me to my next point which is that I believe everybody is creative. I think all humans are born creative. I think the problem is that the day you were born is the last day of freedom you'll ever have because from the day you're born people get creative on you turning you into their idea of who they think you should be and I think creativity is lost from our soul because our soul is dismantled from birth onwards as people conform as away from guide as away from put layers of compliance on as away from our creative beginnings and so life becomes less and less creative as we age because we are so busy trying to fit in with the group behave ourselves, not take risks, not stand out all of which creativity asks us to do so you are creative. The question is not the question is not how creative are you the question is how are you creative and finally I want to say that I believe creativity is our true connection to divinity I've been around creative people in my life all my life been around in a creative environment sitting around a table in a room with creative people where we're creating something new it is an unusual unique sense of the presence of God I feel and the presence of divinity when we are in a creative flow together I think we are never better versions of us than when we are creative there's something about being creative that is very much awakening in us the divine spark in all humans God gave us from the beginning of time to be creative, to rule over, to subdue to replenish, to be fruitful in the earth was the original mandate to mankind I think when we are creative we are never more so in touch with our divine roots and beginnings and mandates than when we are creative so there you go a few things on being a creative person or leading creative people be the drill sergeant, feintal president, therapist remember tranquility breeds creativity remember creativity I think is the opposite of helplessness so it's a superpower remember everyone's creative and remember creativity is our greatest connection to divinity hope that's interesting and helpful to you guys today hey drop in a comment about any questions you want me to jump on and speak to you about an answer like this on Instagram be happy to do it from time to time well I love you guys much love to you all today from my desert retreat in Arizona