Dear Creativity,
December is upon us and as I look toward finishing my projects for The Innovation Doctor, I have been thinking a lot about magic and wonder.
There is something about the spirit of the season with all the lights and shine, yet I am not feeling the spirit. In early November when I was feeling the stress of my w2 (This is now the way I distinguish between my financial oxygen job and the passion of my business.) I was holding onto the magic of the holidays that were soon to come.
Now that the holidays are here, my mood is meh.
I kind of wanna and I don’t wanna, put up lights & decorations, cook, bake, or get a tree.
December is a great month to partner with you in many ways, Creativity. As adults, we can tap into our childlike senses of play, joy, and wonder over and over again. Whatever our creativity language or multitude of creativity languages, we can find it and pull out from the depths of the overwhelm, stress, and struggle of being an adult to capture the magic and whimsy of the moment.
This has me thinking, how can we move from a mood of meh to the joy of the season over the month?
I suppose we could start by looking at the possibilities through the lense of our creativity languages. Our creativity languages are as diverse as we are – writing words that dance across pages, capturing moments through a camera’s lens, cutting and assembling collages that tell untold stories, kneading dough with hands that translate emotions into bread, looping yarn into intricate knitted patterns, stirring pots of culinary magic, spreading paint across canvas like whispered dreams, or crafting worlds from bits and pieces that others might overlook. Each of these languages speaks to the soul’s need to create, to express, and to transform.
Perhaps the path from “meh” to magic isn’t about forcing festivity, but about gentle invitations to speak with our creativity and wonder. Maybe it’s about small, unexpected moments: the unexpected sparkle of frost on the leaves during my morning walk, a spontaneous dance while washing dishes, or humming a melody that suddenly breaks through the monotony.
This month, I’m inviting you to be my co-conspirator in rediscovering wonder. Not through grand gestures, but through tiny rebellions against the adult tendency to schedule and sanitize joy. Let’s sneak playfulness into the corners of our days – a spontaneous doodle, a ridiculous song invented while folding laundry, or watching the way light catches something ordinary and makes it extraordinary.
The magic isn’t in perfect decorations or social media-worthy moments. It’s in the spaces between – where we allow ourselves to be surprised, to be curious, to be delightfully unproductive. So here’s to moving from “meh” to maybe, from obligation to opportunity, from trudging to twirling.
I can get on board with this and if I happen to get caught up in the moment to put up a tree, then that is okay too.
Innovatively yours,
Dr. Abigail
