What journey of transformation do you want to go on?
...you can think of a book as the future artifact of a transformational journey that you would like to go on.
When people talk to me about wanting to write a book one day, but don’t know where to start, I tell them they can approach it two ways:
You can think of a book as a culmination of lived wisdom that you’ve gathered over time…
or you can think of a book as the future artifact of a transformational journey that you would like to go on.
What would you like to learn about? What would you like to change in your life? What would you like to explore? Set out on that journey and keep notes. The book is the artifact of that journey.
Same with painting…
You can use the tools necessary to create an idea that you already have….
or you can use the materials you have to explore something that is unknown… willing to end up wherever the process takes you. (Let’s be honest, every painting I’ve ever made I’ve hated halfway through. Even if you are just trying to make something you already have an idea for… the creation process is alway unforeseen.)
What if we could approach our lives this way?
What would change if we loosened our grip on where, what, and how everything is supposed to turn out…
…and instead set out with the materials we have on a transformational journey we’d like to go on?
Books, paintings, songs are all just artifacts of transformation that other people went on. You are absolutely invited to the same kind of process.
What transformational journey keeps calling your name?
