Take Play Seriously

After streaming the show Springsteen On Broadway, I woke up the next morning thinking about a big takeaway regarding creative work. Bruce Springsteen’s words shifted a bit and then echoed a message back to me. “Take play seriously.” I’ve heard that said before but this time, I got it.

Whatever it is you want to create with your life,
Do it. Find a way.

Become the very best you can at it. Focus on it with your passion and dedication.
Do it for the love you have for it. 

What I heard from that is:

Find the time to express that thing inside yourself.
Before work, after work, when the kids are in bed, on Fridays or maybe a fifteen minute snippet of time.
If you have the luxury of dedicating your entire morning or full time, take advantage of the opportunity with your own version of creative expression.
It’s a blessing. 

Make it a daily practice.

He said he didn’t do it for the money.
Yet he followed the path of his love for his guitar since age 7.
He became a musician who writes his own story with music.
It also made him a very prosperous man.

I believe when something is created for the love of the soulful engagement that creative expression brings, love pays back.
There are so many ways that love pays back.
Some receive a community, some sanity, some family, some forgiveness, acceptance, comfort, healing, and yes, some do receive money.
Love pays back when a calling is answered.

Remember, there are things money can’t buy.
Sooner or later, it’s the value placed on a passion to create that brings riches never dreamed of.
In full circle, with creative expression, the thing that you need finds a path to arrive in the best way for your self. 

With your creative journey, you bring value to who you are and what you do with your life.

Do your thing
Do your fun
Take your play seriously.