Essential Ingredients

"The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust - and those elements are universally accessible. Which means that creative living is not always easy; it merely means that creative living is always possible." ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

Allow me tell you a little about this book.

I'm nearing the end, again.

I read it last year, but I was drawn back to it.

I'm giving it the reread it most certainly deserves.

By nature, we are creative beings,

bringing life to thoughts and ideas and dreams.

Elizabeth is an encourager and coach for creatives,

identifying ingredients to better live creative lives.

She identifies five essential ingredients.

Courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, and trust.

The subtitle of her book is Creative Living Beyond Fear.

And fear is the enemy of creative living.

As creative beings, we all have treasures buried within us.

In creative living, our goal is to unearth those treasures.

Those treasures are gifts we've been given.

It is our responsibility to be good stewards of these gifts.

These treasures and gifts deserve our attention.

And we need a way of embracing the process of bringing forth.

Creative living helps us wrestle and struggle and overcome.

It empowers us to move beyond the obstacles in our path.

As she says, it is not easy, but it is possible.

So we have these essential ingredients to assist us.

I encourage you to seek out these ingredients.

Seek out ways to use these ingredients in your own creative life.

Inside of you is a treasure, a gift.

I hope you can look beyond any fears holding you back.

I hope you can embrace the idea of creative living.

I hope you bring forth the Big Magic waiting for you now.