Resistance is futile

Yes, the borg will come and take your individual personality from you and make you part of their collective if you let them. I’ve been struggling with the idea of conforming to a regular schedule of creativity. Shoving my creative time into a slot on the calendar.

2:00PM-4:00PM: Creativity

I’ve always resisted the idea of taking creativity and scheduling it, but I find when I actually do just that, I am somehow more free to be creative. Resistance is more complicated than futility. Ironically when I do schedule creative time during my work day I often have more creative impulse and I can find myself working into the night after my calendar has told me I can quit. Other times an hour feels like pulling teeth out of the back of my hand, and I am so grateful for the clock to strike the quitting hour. Still, something got accomplished in that hour or two with my butt in the chair. I don’t know the answer, but I do know that not being creative is not an option. Resistance to my own creative impulse is futile. So, I keep putting it on my calendar and I keep sitting down at the piano or the computer and writing…

“Assimilate this!”  -Worf, Star Trek: First Contact