There are two Kings in our mind who are in constant battle.
The King of Creative Desire, and the King of Sabotage.
Let’s try to explain this observation.
To do anything in life, you need fuel.
Creative impulse, as a burning inner desire, is the fuel of your life, a raw form of energy that will move you.
The King of Creative Desire is the ruler of this energy.
Our actions are initiated with this force.
The King of Creative Desire controls huge reservoirs of energy.
However, he is blind, and we need to help him release this energy,
Remember science class. There are two forms of energy: one is kinetic energy (the energy of a moving object), and the other is potential energy.
Our inner desire is merely potential energy; it will fuel our action only if we know how to release it.
Some of our creative impulses are subconscious.
However, many philosophers would agree that burning inner desire is essential for success.
Tolstoy would call this the energy of delusion.
He would argue that in order to do something, one has to believe in the importance of the job.
We would like to modify this concept, changing the name from the energy of delusion to the energy of possibility or the energy of hope.
One needs energy to keep moving in the desired direction.
Hope is the product of our mind over thousands of years of evolution, and the energy of possibility may be used as a fuel to improve our life.
To possess motivation, drive and inspiration for action is not an easy task.
Therefore, we should train our mind to understand and use the impulse of inner burning desire.
Frustration with our own life may be a key ingredient to success.
Frustration is a driving force for change.
The King of Creative Desire is important, but he may be buried deep inside your mind.
He does have huge powers, but he may be blind, and he can be suppressed.
There is a huge amount of stored and unused raw energy that we will waste if we do not learn to release this fuel.
Deep inside of Creative King, there are fascinating reservoirs with following labels:
The energy of hope.
The energy of possibility.
The energy of novelty and new connections.
The energy of play and imagination.
The energy of inspiration.
This King claims that the amounts of these five forces of our success are unlimited.
However, the King of Creative Desire has a powerful enemy:
The King of Sabotage.
This ruler is actually the King of Excuses.
He will find all of the excuses in the world to convince you to remain passive and not to take risk or any other creative action.
There are two major segments of our time. Active time occurs when you take risk to create something and to meet other people, and passive time occurs when you are passively swallowing content that other people have created for you.
The King of Sabotage is the master of killing our productive time and replacing this with static time, when we are passive and without any initiative, interaction or creation.
Part of our nature is lazy and resistant to change.
To stay where you are requires a minimal amount of energy. To drastically change your life requires a lot of energy.
Therefore, the King of Sabotage is feeding and encouraging our passive side.
The King of Sabotage is a trickster. His major weapons are silent sabotage and finding excuses not to do anything.
Creativity and action to change one’s life always have some risk.
The King of Sabotage will magnify the risk and will always try to convince you that the status quo is better than taking action.
The King of Creative Desire requires a lot energy, and the King of Sabotage requires only a minimal amount of energy.
So it may look as if this is not a fair battle.
Novelty is a healing force for our brain, and the King of Creative Desire, with our help, may win this battle for a more productive and fulfilling life.
There are huge stores of potential energy inside of our minds and
we have frequent opportunity to release this energy.
When we feel the creative impulse we should follow this beautiful force without any inhibition
Our intuitive mind will be our guide.
Look for inspiration, release imagination , search for novelty and King of Creative Desire will be on your side.