A book created for dreamers
...to live the life they want.
Linda told me her number one rule is to do the unexpected: Make your world what your dream is, she said. Like painting the front door of her house Swimming Pool Blue, why not! I thought about that statement for a while and it seemed that finding one's dream takes a bit of emotional risk-taking, a sense of putting it out there.
But still, as many of us have found out, we grow up and select a life and its usually one thats ordinary and predictable. We climb corporate ladders and aspire to the suburban two-car garage. But as Linda and I talked more, and I glanced around at the warm, vibrant, soulful world shes created in her own studio, I thought about how much of ourselves we never explore when we take the expected course. Maybe its because at our day job, were rarely pushed to explore our natural talents. She said she became less and less inhibited with her work as she was urged to create more, faster. Success set the conditions for artistic growth because she was simply too busy to think, or be self-conscious about her process of creating.
But as she told me, you have to Decide and do it. Dont be pulled along with the rest of the masses who walk silently clockwise, just as everyone expects.
-- from the book