Embracing Constraints: Finding Creativity and Beauty in Life’s Structure

The way that poetry works is that it’s because it has a constraint that it brings out creativity and innovation. So essentially, you know, like a haiku is a certain amount of syllables and a certain amount of lines or, you know, whatever kind of poem you’re doing. And if you don’t have that sort of structure, you just don’t have the same creativity come out for you. Because once you have a structure, then you’re being creative within that and it creates something really beautiful. And you can think of life that way. You know, freedom is flexibility and having that flexibility and innovation within what is so. This is the weather. This is how people in my life are showing up today. These are my circumstances and you have power and influence to change a lot of things, but not everything. You will never have a day of your life where like everything is totally up to me, my circumstances and how everyone else shows up. So you can think of your life like a poem where, OK, this is within the structure of what is so. And this is how I’m going to choose and show up and be creative and make something amazing from this beautiful structure that I have.