You are probably aware that recent brain research indicates that our brains respond to stimuli with changes in structure. It’s why we’re able to learn new skills, and get competent at tasks we do over and over.

Today what that means for me is bending myself into the shapes our modern marketplace requires; learning to wield technology like a scalpel rather than a blunt instrument. It means I have to tolerate that fuzzy head feeling that comes from accepting tentacles of new input. Have you ever been to a country where you’re half fluent in the language? Know how at the end of the day you feel five new kinds of tired? That’s a bit like this. I’m working it, regardless of bad pronunciation.

Funnily, though, while caught in the throws of a new web site, shiny business plan, a motherboard of online interactivity; I’ve allowed my tired feet to stumble into the most powerful creative practice I’ve had in a while. By powerful, I mean something that gives me the happy I-made-this-today feeling EVERY day.

And yes, I am wondering why I didn’t give my self this gift a while ago. Possibly it felt too easy.

Ever notice how many of us have learned that it has to feel bad to be good? I don’t mean tiring, like learning something new, I mean icky, like doing something that isn’t true. In any case, I have ignored that feeling of “this-isn’t-quite-right” for ever because the thrill of making something was worth so much more than the sadness of not creating at all.

So, I have a new blog where I post a poem every day. For me, writing poetry had never counted as creative practice because it is too easy. So joyful, such a pleasure. Creating is supposed to be hard, right?

But guess what? The joy I get from making something new each day transcends all that. Imagine, instead of putting on the heavy coat that is “my project”, I can just start and finish a new one, all in a day. Yippee skippee.

Far from making me want to do less, it just convinces me I would love more. Greedy for a chance to say it out loud, give the world something of what I know, all those happy feelings we get when we’ve done work.

It is so easy to get a word press, or a tumblr, or something that feels small but good, and start. Do it! Do it today.

I promise, satisfaction of creating today is so much better than waiting until conditions are favorable.

Give your brain some of what it needs. Do some work today.