Four Reasons For Optimism
The word optimism came to mind as I was thinking about what to write in the creativity blog this morning. What do I have to be optimistic about? Creativity. I am optimistic about my creativity, your creativity and general modes of creative expression. I’m in the middle of planning for a mid-June jewelry event. I’ve been having some amazing discussions with another artist, as we are planning to share a table and space with each other. She sells perfume and I’m selling jewelry. We both have some other products that we are selling as well. So our conversations have covered design and layout ideas, types of products, use of our space and how to attract customers, among other things. She emailed me on Friday night, with a slew of ideas about how to set up our tables. She always has good ideas, backed up by a strong retail background. But I found myself feeling a little resistant to hearing her ideas. I let her know what my thoughts were, so that I could eventually let go of some of the resistance and start really hearing what she had to say. Over the weekend, I realized that it was important to me to hear what she had to say and that it was important for me to jump into the discussion, adding my own thoughts and asking some of the questions, that I had about trying out new display ideas. When I was able to relax and share more of my thoughts, I noticed that I became much more open to incorporating some of the basic ideas that she had already suggested. In general, I feel more optimistic about what I want to do with my display. I have less fear about trying new ideas or reconstituted inventory ideas during this event. I still have some fears and work yet to do, but I’m glad to say that I woke up feeling more optimistic about my creativity this morning. I’ve included four reasons for my optimism below.
