Once you learn the basics of something, you then know enough to experiment. You understand how to move between steps in the process, which means you may now have ideas on how to change or go a different direction. Experimentation allows us to venture into new and innovative ideas, and push our skills to another level.
It takes guts to experiment. You have to be willing to fail and fail often. You have to be willing to end up no where near where you wanted, or end up with nothing but a mess. Experimentation also requires an investment of time and money, both of which could end up being wasted. If you are not willing to lose, then don’t stray from the norm. You have to be able to handle the outcome, no matter what it reveals.
Once you begin down the innovation trail, you could end up with a success and something you really like. Then the challenge becomes trying to duplicate the ‘new’ way of doing to get to the newly admired innovative result. Being able to do it over again, to bring the new experiment into your portfolio means remembering what you did to get to the result. It may be possible that you are never able to duplicate the process, and you have simply created an incredible one of a kind.
So how willing are you to veer from the well worn path and experiment? Does it make you anxious, or nervous, or feel insecure? Or might it excite you, jazz you up, really allow you to ignite your creative side? Or maybe you fall somewhere in the middle. Depending upon the topic, you may nor may not innovate. In some areas you feel more comfortable coloring within the lines; on other topics you throw caution to the wind and let everything out from inside your creative mind.
I encourage you to find something this week where you can innovate and try out the new. You. may like it, you may not…you simply never know what it will ignite in the rest of your world. Take a chance, step outside of your usual and try something that makes you nervous and excited at the same time.
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