Today's practice is Acting. It's not enough to imagine what can be, we have to act on our imaginings. As I mentioned before, the creative process is non-liner, and these practices do not follow one sequence. Taking action happens at different points along the creative process.
"Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing." ~ William Shakespeare
By taking action, you are beginning the validation process of what you are creating. By taking action on your vision or project, you are becoming its first supporter. How it's received can give you feedback toward evolving what you are offering, but nothing can happen without first taking action.
It can be scary or hard to try something new, or put our something publicly that has meaning for you. It is much easier to put our something that has little meaning, but the more meaning it has for you, and the more of yourself you have put into it, the more vulnerable it can feel. By taking action, it becomes easier each time.
"Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will." ~ W. Clement Stone
Action also opens up to new creative aliveness possibilities we may not have thought about. By trying something, we get to know if we like it, or what part of it we comes alive with and what part we don't, and how it connects to others.
Action moves energy. In that, it opens up our creative aliveness through experiencing that thinking alone can't do. And in the act of taking action, we discover things we otherwise would not know had we waited until we were certain of exactly how everything would go. We learn by doing most of all.
Sometimes we freeze in the face of too many ideas and options. In those cases, it is good to just narrow our focus to one part, and taking action only on that. By taking an accessible step, that gives us confidence to take another accessible step. And after a while step-taking becomes fun, alive, and easy. Small steps lead to big transformation. Start wherever you are. Get clear on what feels alive. And then take actions that support more of that.
"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that we find our supreme joys." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery