A friend took me sailing, but the wind decided not to blow. As we sat on the barely-moving boat, enjoying snacks and the beautiful day, the situation began to feel like a metaphor for my life... I am creatively stuck with no wind to fill my sails. I've always had a good relationship with creativity- it seems to flow freely and abundantly for me. I've never had a problem depending on it, in fact, just like wind for a sail boat, it has carried me through most of my life. Recently, however, my creative wind feels like it stopped blowing. I feel stuck in a place of in between with no clear direction and no driving force to fill my sails. I have a plethora of half-crossed off lists, empty goal sheets, and notebooks full of ideas, but I'm lacking the creative inspiration to manifest them. I try to call upon my creativity, but it's as useless as asking the wind to blow. It is a force of its own that I am not in control of.
I heard a skilled sailor can sail in little to no wind. If you can learn to sail through the windless times, when it blows again you will be ready to ride it like a champ. The same goes for creativity. When your inspiration does not flow strongly, practice finding just enough to move you. Little movement is better than no movement. When creative inspiration does arrive, you will be fully prepared to let it carry you!
