Pronuncification – The Moment When We Truly Decide to Actually Make an Idea Happen (The Creativity Explorer. Episode 135)
To procrastinate – to “put forward to tomorrow” – is one of the big killers of creativity.
Imagine all the ideas you would get done if you just got around to making them happen the moment you have the idea.
But that’s not going to happen, is it?
Instead of put plans off, we postpone our dreams, we decide to focus on something else and a million other reasons for why we do not make our ideas happen.
But then.
Suddenly.
Almost like magic: We make up our minds to actually make the idea happen.
This is a crucial aspect of the creative process.
A moment that has not been given enough attention and appreciation.
And certainly not been given a name.
Until today.
I call it: “Pronuncification” – as in “to put forward to now”. (“Nunc” is Latin for now.)
I will give you an example:
More than ten years ago we build an amazing new house full of glass, right next to the water on our island. We love every aspect of this house.
Except for one thing: The door!
For some reason, we installed a sliding door that was hard to open and even harder to close. And when it did close it did not close properly.
For years we thought about changing it, we talked about changing it, we decided to change it. But nothing happened.
And then – just a few weeks ago, I said to my wife: “Ok, that’s it! we are getting a new door! Then I went online, ordered it and had it shipped.
Today we got it installed.
I love it. We all do. Especially the kids who can not open and close the door without a problem.
As much as I love this new door, I love even more that I finally got around to fixing our door problem.
That I stopped procrastinating and started to “Pronuncicate”
What’s that one thing you should be doing?
Go and do it.
Fredrik Haren – The Creativity Explorer
21
Sep