Serendipity, Creativity, and Your Future Wealth
You’ll make future fortunes from unintended events.
The Butterfly Effect is a powerful notion. A tiny whisper, having an unexpected and deep impact on events that seem to resound with a bang, is hard to grasp sometimes.
Many people, though, have experienced it in their lives.
Serendipity, at its core, is a powerful driver towards creativity. Bob Ross, perhaps, said it best when he talked about his happy little trees. They weren’t meant to be there on the canvas, but those little “oops drops” that happened when he misplaced the brush created amazing images in the end.
Serendipitous occurrences, too, can lead to connections and fortunes you can’t imagine while they are happening.
The idea of serendipity as a vehicle for creating something new is powerful.
Just putting something out on the internet, allowing others 24/7 access to your idea, concept, design or piece of art, can allow the universe to connect you with the people you need contact with the most.
Whether that’s for good or ill is up to you to decide. It allows for new things, new experiences, and fostering of relationships in your life.
All of those are beds of creation. They are those possibilities can give opportunity for creative fodder. New books, articles, YouTube videos, or whatever your method of expression is, all come forth from the happenstance of allowing the pavement of your dreams to be out there in the world.
Follow the inspiration avalanche.
Imagine for a moment you are an artist.
You work hard on a new project, following the siren’s call of inspiration as you spread the paint on the canvas. You create something fresh from the fertile ground of your imagination.
That’s special. That’s something not everyone can do, or are willing to do.
While you’re creating it, you probably don’t have in your mind the notion that you’re actually planting seedlings of hope and fruitfulness for your future. I know I never did while painting or writing books or even articles.
However, that is in actuality what is occurring.
You create this new piece and put it on Instagram, or share it on Twitter or Facebook. You meticulously choose the tags to draw people’s attention to this new imagination baby you’ve birthed.
Then what? Well, if you’re anything like me, probably not much. At least not at first.
Each creation is a brick on the path that leads to success in the future. You don’t realize how powerful the internet really can be. The ability it gives for random encounters and serendipitous occurrences is astounding.
When younger, I hosted radio shows with a large listenership. I never really thought about how it might lead to future openings for me while doing the broadcasts. I just enjoyed doing them for what they were.
Over the years, I’ve gotten emails from people who found my shows and want to connect, because they need help with setting up broadcast equipment, or are interested in the stories I wrote and published during that time.
I’ve made quite a few sales by doing nothing more than putting those things out to the universe and allowed it to bring about whatever it thought I needed.
Spontaneous occurrences lead to amazing ends.
I think serendipity and creativity go hand in hand. Even the process of creation is powered by spontaneous occurrences.
For example, when painting, if I put a line in a spot I didn’t originally intend (happens frequently with my blindness), I rarely bother erasing it. I find it leads me to discover an alternative path of paint that ultimately makes the complete piece of art better.
I love that. I enjoy following those moments of clarity that come through the “fog of war” we often face when being creative.
What comes about by putting your work out there goes beyond the scope of your current imagining as you’re creating something new. You don’t know how it’s going to affect someone else’s life, or what kind of response they’re going to have to it.
One of my published books was about relationships. I did it intending to help people find better ways to relate to one another by tweaking the way they think about those relations.
It surprised me one day when I received an email from someone who read the book and claimed it actually saved their life. While the book was about romantic relationships, the person who sent the mail my way was going through a dark time in their life. A passage in the book touched them in a way that helped them gain clarity into their own psyche.
That was never my intention. I didn’t know something I put in as more of a toss-away phrase would end up helping someone so radically. I’m grateful they reached out to me to let me know such a thing happened.
But that’s how serendipity can work. I never thought about that person as I wrote that book. They weren’t my target audience, but something about the book made them pick it up anyhow.
They read it, and saw something in it that influenced them in a way I didn’t think would happen (and still find surprising). That wasn’t my expectation at all.
Don’t do a disservice to your future fans, or yourself.
I think, in weird ways, we creators have a responsibility to people to allow them access to what we create. I know most of us experience impostor syndrome, bashing ourselves for being foolish enough to think we’re worthy of any kind of attention.
That’s a disservice, though, isn’t it? It’s unfair for us to hoard our creativity, when we don’t really know the ways it will change people.
So why not allow that to happen? Why not alter the mindset you have to follow the flow of serendipity, not only through the process of formation, but for the universe to use it as it sees fit?
It’s like going to a gas station and giving a smile to the person in line with you.
Maybe that person was having a terrible day, and the smile you grace them with gives them a sense of hope. Perhaps that small gift gives them the impetus to keep going, themselves.
You never know how the ripples your actions, or your creativity, will potentially change lives.
Express yourself, follow the flow of inspiration, and let the future take care of itself.
When you put yourself out into the world, you never know the connections you’ll make, the friends you can find, and the amazing experiences you’ll have.
About me:
I am an author with over a dozen books and dozens of short stories published. I have experience with both traditional and self-publishing, and love to discuss the pros and cons of both.
Why do I write? Because I am blind and live on woefully low disability payments each month. The government graced me with trying to live on about $700 per month, and I decided to start publishing because I also like to be able to eat.
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