Peak into My Mind: Journal Entry #13, transcribed verbatim

I was lying in bed last night thinking, of course with my phone in the other room, after having finally finished “Wisest One in the Room”.

I was thinking about my blog post yesterday on “It’s Time to Build”.

I think for me, my passion is creating and inspiring people to create, to take ideas from their head and put them out into the world.

Sometimes that's art, food, words, ideas, whatever.

I think it's about creating, which is a subgroup of building, in some way or another.

I think that my true passion is creating ideas and inspiring others to do the same.

It's creativity, it's uniqueness, it's personality and integrity and everything.

Mind, body, soul, mixed into something tangible. It's purely for the act, not the result. It's pure journey, no destination. It doesn't really matter what comes out.

No one cares except you.

But to get there it takes a lot of mental.

Overcoming the journey of creating is difficult, filled with second-guessing, doubt, critique, self-reflection in other words…life. So I think the process of creating mimics life in a pure microformat, start to finish.

Thus the micro creation experience is a pure form of life practice.

This is sounding philosophical and deep and maybe it is.

I've often thought about the comparison between being an artist and an entrepreneur.

To be an artist you simply have to create daily. No final goals needed to be attached to the creator process. But for the entrepreneur, they are filling a gap, solving a problem, exchanging value.

To be an entrepreneur means sales. You cannot be an entrepreneur and never sell anything, but you can never sell a piece of art and still be an artist. I'm not sure what exactly this means, but I think I'm on to something.

I think creating is an essential element to life.

I know for me this is absolutely true.

How many people is it true for?

And is it an underlying, forgotten, un-prioritized aspect of life that, when sparked, can open perspective-shifting energy of hope and opportunity in anyone?

I know for me this publishing everyday thing has opened up some ideas, opportunities, insights, would it do that for others?

Is there a need for it?

Would people pay for it?

Would the feeling of publishing a creation daily give that same experience to others?

I think it's worth trying out.

It's worth testing.

It's a powerful and maybe valuable and maybe world-changing…

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I’ve committed to 30 days straight of journaling, sweating, meditating, reading and publishing.

This is an excerpt from this morning’s journal that I wrote by hand.

I read into my phone’s Voice Memo then uploaded it to Temi to get it transcribed for $.75, copy and pasted it here and then made style edits.