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Shipping to Delivering
Shipping to delivering. Once it’s produced, created, built. Once it’s “shipped”. Where is it being shipped. Where is it going. Where is it landing. Who wants it. Who needs it. Who was asking for it. This is delivery. To complete the loop, complete the process of creation. Creating something for the benefit of others. Creating something to bring people together. Creating something to connect. A robust, healthy creation process will have already thought of who this is for before the shipping, before the inventing, before the idea. This is the creativity mesh point, creating something for specificity, for someone, a group, a need, a desire, want, creating it with the intuition only you can bring, uniqueness, individuality, voice, aesthetic. That is the connectivity.
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Inventing to Shipping
Inventing to shipping, from the plans, process, schematics and details. Creating the thing, building it, making it real, physical, tangible. This is the journey from idea to inventing, inventing to shipping. The materials. The builders. The process in place. The design in function. Outputting the idea into an actual physical thing. This is when you can see how closely you get what you thought of in your head to what you can actually create. How close is it. How perfect was the idea. Was it as good as you thought it would be. If not why. If so why.
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Idea to Inventing
The gap between idea and inventing. Everyone has many ideas. Fewer, less so, take the first step to bring those ideas closer to reality. The idea is perfect, untainted, idealized in the head. It is still an abstract, metaphysical form. It is everything it potentially can be, without being anything. For an idea, it’s safer to be in the mind and imagination, free from criticism, free from the disappointment, free from rejection. That’s why many ideas will remain locked up inside.
But the first step from idea to inventing, the actual process of creating something. The first step in materializing an abstract idea from the ether into reality. Metaphysical to physical. Inventing are the details, the plans, schematics, outlines, architecture, getting from point A to point B. This is the first step in knowledge creation. This the first step in creating something from nothing.
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Thought Creation
A thought, idea is abstract, ethereal. Not yet real. Not yet explicit. Getting thoughts out to become something real with value. That is creative work. An idea is raw, maybe it’s a vision, maybe it’s a thread, maybe it’s just a glimpse of what could be. The idea needs to go through a refinement, development, process. From just thoughts in the head – to spoken, the transmission from brain to mouth, a little rough, freeform, to hear it out loud, to see how it lands with other people – then written, filtering, refinement, being more intentional, refined and purposeful with the words – then designed, proposing a system of how this idea can be brought into the world – then produced, actually building the idea into reality.
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The value in what we bring
I think everyone wants to contribute to the group. And bring their whole self to what they’re doing. Bring value in a meaningful way. Everyone has a skill, talent, ability, dream, desire. A place where there is purpose, direction and value. Self-esteem. Confidence. Connection. Connected to what they’re doing, bringing their whole self to what they do.
What happens when people cannot contribute to the group? What happens when they can’t connect to their skill, talent, gift? What happens when they’re told not to do it that way or nobody wants what they do? Outcast? Misfit? Ostracized? Devalued? Dehumanized?
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Comfort in the discomfort
Many people search for that comfort zone, the stasis of not being required, called on for something more. The feeling of everything’s “okay”, nothing more, nothing less. The mind at peace. The body at rest. There’s no place to go, only the here and now.
I get uncomfortable when it’s comfortable. The discomfort of stasis, not feeling like things are moving forward or progressing. The fear of letting comfortable get too comfortable. Letting comfort be the reward. Losing time. Losing progress.
Both are neither productive nor sustainable. There are seasons. Seasons of stasis and comfort. Seasons of progress and moving forward, discomfort. Embracing both as they are, as they be, open to the stillness, slowness and going forward, they will be ready when you are.
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Stress from stress
The stress and anxiety of feeling like things are not moving forward. But it’s an abstract, undefined process. There is no right or wrong. There isn’t a determined schedule, there is only the way forward. This is acceptance, be open to the process, be willing of the schedule.
Don’t stress about things that haven’t happened yet. Let it be what may come. Let it take care of itself. Don’t be stressed about not doing things right or expectations of doing it a certain way. Or living up to some measure. Feeling the judgment of wanting/needing to be necessary, of having value or being essential. Sometimes it’s just functional or a sum of productivity, efficiency and work.