People are like that sometimes right? Beautiful, insightful, thoughtful, creative, and wise. However, my friend just laughed and said, “The thing that’s stood out to me this past year are how stupid people are.” I don’t know why but I was honestly surprised. The more I’ve thought about it though the more I’ve come to the conclusion that we’re both right. As humans we seem to have this incredible capacity for both beauty and stupidity.

At the end of the day though I’d rather focus on the beautiful stuff in people.

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I think we begin the day with a certain amount of creative capacity, and our only job each day is to get that out of us. If you’re passionate about writing then you need to sit down and write, if you love sales then you won’t feel settled until you’ve called a potential client, if you’re a developer then the only way you’ll be happy is to hammer out a few divs. The weekends are no exception either because our creative capacity doesn’t take a day off. (I suggest doing something different on the weekends because mental rejuvenation is important, but you still need to create).

We were born to create, to try new things, to stretch ourselves just a bit each day. It can be difficult though because part of us just wants to just sit on our butts and do nothing. A part of us seems to think, “the less I do the more happy I’ll be!” Trust me, that’s a lie. For the sake of your own happiness leave nothing uncreated, empty yourself each day.

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