Start where you are.

Use what you have.

Do what you can.

-Arthur Ashe

When I create, when I sit down to do a job, the temptation often sneaks in to excuse my lacklustre work on… well… lack.

Lack of resource, experience, time, self esteem, recognition, talent, money, collaborative ‘challenges’, upline managers who don’t ‘get’ it [do I need to continue?] poor lighting, workspace, inspiration, etcetera.

We all do this, but when you’re watching someone else in this space doesn’t it frustrate you? Doesn’t it make you want to say, “Uhhhm.. I love you, but get on with it!”?

Here’s my encouragement… I’ve always found that my most creative, beautiful, inspiring work comes with an acute sensation of feeling crushed – either by a deadline, an insecurity, resource challenges. More often than not, by whatever it is I feel I lack.

But crush me every day, because it’s in the process of crushing that the creative juice really starts to flow.