Day 7: Pressed & Released
My favorite pizza place in Cleveland is offering a roll of toilet paper with delivery. My favorite brewery in Cincinnati went ice-cream truck, adult style this week – trolling streets with a jingle, a brew, and pizza (until crowds got too big – COVID!) My Bible study went to Google Hangout this morning, allowing me to talk about Isaiah while I hiked with my dog.
It reminds that pressure comes with release. New obstacles allow for new freedoms and now is a time to try something new.
Funny thing, I wrote an article about this before any of this hit the fan. It’s about one of my creative heroes – Grandma Barovian – and how she didn’t use her limits as excuses but as opportunities. I hope this encourages you today!
Creativity is my grandma saving two bucks a week.
The example always takes my entrepreneurship students by surprise. In a class on Creativity + Innovation, they’re thinking Steve Jobs and Apple. Elon Musk and Tesla. Inserting Virginia Stella Kowalczyk Barovian and her 1940s frugality into this start-up paradigm is a plot twist.
But it catches their attention for an essential component of creative work – our limits. The boundaries we work within. The little we have to work with on any given day, and the thriftiness required as those days tally from Year 1 to Year 5 and whatever Year it is when we become an “overnight” success and start to recoup our investment.
Limits are a creative’s special sauce.
