Imagination is the Key
If you’re bored…it’s your own fault. Everyone is born with an imagination. And imagination is the key to creativity and innovation in our personal and professional lives. If you’ve lost touch with your’s because you believe an imagination is something you’re supposed to grow out of…then that’s on you.
You have to be willing to play. To embrace new opportunities and experiences. The best way to learn new technology, new systems and platforms, ways of learning and communicating is to let yourself have fun. If creativity and innovation are important to your business, produce or service, (and I can’t think of when it isn’t) then it is in your best interest to get familiar with they key you’ve been given.
One of the biggest killers to really engaging your imagination is worrying about being productive. Imagination is the key remember, not the treasure…it’s the piece that unlocks what you’re looking for. On a recent tour I’d been driving for 12 hours and was starting to get a little stir crazy. So I pulled out my handheld video camera and made a fake tourism video of the next town I drove through. Just a stupid silly little bit of fun. When I got into my hotel room that night, instead of just turning on the TV vegging out, I dumped the footage into my laptop and played with it in iMovie. The video itself isn’t the point. Having fun and using my imagination was the point. Passing time driving and getting better, faster and more familiar with iMovie was just a byproduct. Sharing the stupid little video through social networks was just a funny way of interacting with my friends, fans and clients that might brighten their day with a smile or chuckle.
One night a few years ago in Winnipeg it was minus a billion degrees Celcius outside. So I went into my creative lair, put on a big fat drum loop, started mucking about on my keyboard and wrote a song about Mennonites. For absolutely no reason at all.
Tribe of One has produced a number of world-class professional videos of our performances. But on one Arctic Tour I decided it would be funny to produce a, Behind the Stage Series, cutting out the performance bits entirely and showing us just being goofy. It was supposed to be silly. A byproduct I could never have imagined was how it encouraged some members of our audience by demystifying the process of investing in your dream. It was an educational tour, where we were hosting workshops and performances in communities across the north. These little videos sparked a number of really profound and productive conversations individuals in our workshops.
Rik Leaf is a professional Producer/Presenter, recording artist, slam poet & published author who spends the majority of his creative time & energy dreaming up ways to inspire people to live awesome lives.
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