I is for Ideas Are Like Beach Rocks

I love encouraging others!

Since I love encouraging others so much, I’m sharing Creative Encouragement Memes for this year’s A to Z Blog Challenge. The quotes are from all over, but I took each photo with my iPhone. Here’s today’s featured letter:

Ideas are like Beach Rocks

“Ideas are like rocks on a beach: They’re everywhere, but they don’t stack themselves!”- Tui Snider

Have you ever met someone who treated their ideas as if they were the final product? I’m talking about folks who cling to an idea as tightly as Gollum held onto “The Precious.”

Hey, I’ve done it myself! Sometimes I decide an idea is so wonderful that instead of actually taking the next step and seeing where it leads, I put it on a shelf and leave it there to rot.

But that’s the thing about ideas. They are only meant to carry you to the next step, the next idea, the next inspiration. Ideas are just as easy to find as rocks on a beach. The real challenge is to do something with them, to stack them up and see what you can create!

Do you ever hoard ideas? What are your tips for times when you treat your creative projects like “The Precious” instead of letting them change and grow?

Follow me on Instagram & I’ll follow you back!

If you are on Instagram, I’d be delighted to follow you. Simply follow my photo feed (@TuiSnider) on Instagram and I’ll follow you back! Isn’t Instagram fun? I’ve gone from turning up my nose at the idea of cell phone pictures, to being an avid iPhone photographer. I even had my first gallery show last summer!

What is the April A to Z Blog Challenge?

Each April, bloggers from all over the world participate in the April A to Z blog challenge, and you can too. It’s a lot of fun and a great way to meet other bloggers.

To play along, all you do is make a blog post for each letter of the alphabet during April, then visit as many other bloggers as you can. In addition to my personal blog here, I’m also writing A to Z posts for the the Story Dam writing community. You can check those out by clicking here: Story Dam’s Writing Quotes & Encouragement 

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