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So, what have you created today?
Stop reading and researching, scrolling and planning. Time to make something.
Today I have stuck walnut shells on an old cabinet and painted them gold. It is a pretty strange thing to do, I grant you. But I loved doing it and I love the result.
I’m not going to sell it. I’m not going to make a film about how I did it. Creating it was enough.
For me, a day is not a fulfilling one unless something exists at the end of it that wasn’t there at the beginning. It doesn’t matter if this is a pizza or a poem. What matters is that I made it myself, from scratch.
You probably feel the same. Far happier if you have used your precious time on earth exercising your God-given creativity in whatever way you can.
There’s this idea out there, especially on social media, that if you have a talent for something you immediately need to monetise it. Turn your hobby into a side hustle! Start a YouTube channel! Sell a course on what you love!
But it’s absolutely fine to do something for its own sake. It’s not necessary to be accomplished or anywhere near perfect. It’s OK if you’re the only one that sees it.
I suppose some people might say that if no-one sees what you produce, why produce it? A bit like the…
