And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk more.
Erica Jong

How dull a life must be without taking risks.

Keep a daily risk journal.

The things we fear most in organizations — fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances –
are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley

Does the corporate world pay lip service to encouraging creativity?

It is more important to spend more time on your vision than developing a marketing plan.
If you are open to change, to connecting, to transformation; you will need a new plan every day.
Anonymous

This truth is contrary to everything you have been taught about marketing.
What if you did create a new marketing plan each day?
Try it on for a week and see how it feels to focus on your vision.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A.A. Milne

What is your relationship with chaos?

I’m not an abstract artist …. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else.
I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions-tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on.
And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures
shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions …
The people who weep before my pictures are having
the same religious experience as I had when I painted them.
Mark Rothko

What artwork have you seen that made you weep?
I have been to the Sistine Chapel a half dozen time.
It always brings me to my knees.

Worrying about the future is like trying to eat the hole of a doughnut. It’s like munching on what isn’t.
Jerry Braza

This is kind of like there being no there there.

Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you.
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, REALLY loves you, then you become Real.
It doesn’t happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off,
and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.
But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly,
except to people who don’t understand.”
From The Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams

I vow to read The Velveteen Rabbit every year until I get real.

And you?

Be who you is,
Not who you ain’t.
‘Cause if you ain’t who you is,
Then you is who you ain’t.

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