A life of liberated creativity…

It’s very easy to get into a routine life where we go through the same motions over and over again, until we’ve repeated them so many times that we could actually do them all in our sleep. In a sense we are doing most of it unconsciously, but with our eyes wide open – driving included. Subtleties that occur throughout the day are not enough to break our routine, such as someone asking for a pen, or a co-worker calling us to ask a question about meeting up for lunch. The only thing that could break us from an ingrained routine is to have something occur that’s completely unexpected, such as receiving news of a medical emergency that has occurred with a loved one, or discovering that you’ve won a lottery for millions of dollars, etc.

When our mind is able to return to our routine, we find it difficult to recall just exactly where it was that we were interrupted in our routine. But because it is a routine, we can mentally trace our steps and figure out exactly where we were interrupted and go forward from there.

The point is, routines are conventional to many, but they’re not very fulfilling. They don’t make life very interesting, that’s why they are simply known as routines, which are equivalent to that of an assembly line producing the same item using the same processing equipment over and over again, day after day, month after month, and year after year. It’s the same results every time – never any different.

Understand that having a routine life, in a sense, can turn us into robots that always look forward to weekends, vacations and personal days off. These are the only days where we can partially shutdown the robot response that is automatically lent to a routine or humdrum life.

However, having a life of creative thought and production, and loving what we do every day, removes the boredom of a routine life. Waking up to this critical fact can be the first step in an important realization to having a life of more than just boring routines; it can be the first step in having a life of liberated creativity your way, with all kinds of magic moments each day, and never a dull moment to be found! – Jon Kennedy