Stand By

I'll be taking a little break for a few weeks.
In a creative's life it is often necessary to retreat in order to reasssess and focus on what needs to get done.

After the talking about, the analyses, and the planning, comes the hard part, the "doing". It's actually show time.

I have often said that I want to be the one that people write about, that I do not merely want to just observe and talk about others' great creative, but I want to be the one whose work they are making a big fuss about.

For me to begin getting there at this point in time, I find it necessary to pour all my energy on my personal tasks at hand.
I'll be taking care of my SoCal move and will be back to share my adventures and misdaventures after I've settled. This trip that I'm about to make is a very important journey for me.

In the mean time, keep living the best life you can live, full of passion and action!
I'll catch up with you and your muse soon enough.

Are you brave enough?

I was reading the magazine, FAST COMPANY the other day when I chanced upon an article on designer Yves Behar of fuseproject.
In it he had a quote that stayed with me.


This made me think about fear.
To start any kind of change or uprising in life, bravery is called for.
Bravery is not really the absence of fear.
It’s having fear but choosing to overcome it.
It’s having fear but behaving productively “inspite of it”.
Is your fear going to be your friend or your foe in your pursuits?

A few questions for you to reflect upon:

Are you brave enough to fail?

Are you brave enough to look like a fool?

Are you brave enough to be imperfect?

Are you brave enough to be original?

Are you brave enough to be the only one?

Are you brave enough to love regardless of return?

Are you brave enough to sweat?

Are you brave enough to do what’s right?

Are you brave enough to lose everything?

Are you brave enough to get back up again?

Are you brave enough to dare to take the road less traveled?

Are you brave enough to question?

Are you brave enough to admit when something’s not working? And then change course?

Are you brave enough to disagree?

Are you brave enough to leave your laurels behind?

Are you brave enough to be wrong?

Are you brave enough to start all over again?

Finally, that "thing" that you really, really want,
how badly do you really want it?

Because your answer pretty much determines whether you’re on your way to getting it or not.