I want you to picture a worker’s bench in a garage during the nighttime. The garage is lit by red and blue neon signs and lights decorating the walls. There’s tools, wires, gadgets, pencils, and other gadgets surrounding the area. And a stool for the worker to sit at.
And you are the worker.
And this worker’s bench is where you work on your creative craft.
Every day this room is waiting for you. It is open for you to sit at the bench and get to work on the creative project your heart is showing you. It’s like the place in the video game you’re supposed to go. It’s the task that will progress the story and make you stronger.
Each time you come to this bench, the thing you’re building actually gets built. You see it over time. Though some days may be harder than others, or have progress that’s tougher to see, there is surely progress nonetheless – you can trust in that, because you are showing up.
The tools at the bench are your physical tools, like your pencils, cameras, microphones, papers, laptops, musical instruments, and your paint brushes, as well as your spiritual tools like journaling, meditation, intuition, taste, inspirations and sensitivity.
They will all assist you as you put one foot in front of the other in order to create what you are being called to create.
You are the way.
As you move, so does everything else. But you have to be the first one to show up. It’s like in Fantasia (1940) where the items come to life and follow Mickey’s lead in a magical dance.
There is a magic that ensues once you commit to your craft. This is the type of momentum I’ve talked about before in my content. It’s this ripple effect in the universe where you receive assistance, like a falling leaf of grace, after you act with courage towards your work.
The ideas start to strike you as if out of nowhere. Connections are made as you go about in the world. Circumstances seem to line up for you. Other circumstances seem to fall apart, out of protection for you and the work.
Once you change, the mirror of the world begins to change in order to accurately reflect who is looking into it. And that is you – the artist who has committed.
Be open to what the day brings because each day is different.
And that’s another magic. Every day will bring its own unique circumstances. You will feel a new set of emotions and inspirations. Your work will take a different shape. You’ll meet a different person, go to a different place, see a different sign which will impact the way you show up for your work.
But it is in surrendering to what the work wants to become that you see how these different factors move through you in order to contribute to the work.
This is called alignment.
You spiritually synchronize with the perfect harmony of your piece. You are open to the ideas that arise and to the circumstances that occur. You are hearing the music.
The more you show up to the bench, the more you hear the music. You will go out into the world, carrying your creative energy with you, and pick up on new things in your life. This is because you’re more sensitive. You are more sensitive because you are working.
Like a ball rolling down a hill, picking up more speed each second it travels down, so is your work and progress with your craft. You are working, showing up, and picking up more speed as you create the thing that wants to be made.
What you don’t see is the incline that’s coming up, which will seemingly slow down your work and your momentum. And also will test your strength and commitment to your craft.
But what you also don’t see is the next decline coming up which will progress your work even further.
And the greatest thing you also don’t see, is how all of these inclines and declines make up the perfect orchestration that needs to happen in order to make your work possible. Each factor plays its part. The path is already carved, you just need to align with it.
The things around you will assist you in order to bring you and your work where you’re meant to be. These are the ebbs and flows.
And maybe this blog is a part of that assistance. Or that thing that you saw the other day which spoke to your soul. Or the idea that’s been floating around in your head the past week which you know is trying to tell you something. All these things, in efforts to assist you.
They are tools, speaking to you in different ways, and playing as tools which will help you as you sit at the worker’s bench and get to it.
Every day brings its set of circumstances. How will you show up to the bench today?
When you want to, it’s waiting for you.
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