Comments on: Arrival Is Not the Point (True Creatives Never Arrive)

By: Dan Cumberland > Defining Your Arrival – What Good Stories Can Teach Us about Our Work | Innovate For Jesus | Grow the Church

Tue, 03 Mar 2015 08:12:48 +0000

[…] much as I know that “arrival” isn’t the point, I still long for that sense of achievement. In the study of the art of storytelling, the […]

By: Anna Hamberg

Anna Hamberg — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:40:48 +0000

About that pull or feel that we have to “arrive” somewhere…:

I think we never actually get to “there”, we only get to here.

That causes me to exhale a bit.

By: Emi

Emi — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:21:00 +0000

In reply to Emi.

a good quote I found posted on a friend’s instagram
(@cat_mcconnell)

” If it’s both terrifying and amazing then you should definitely pursue it.”
-erada

By: Emi

Emi — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:16:54 +0000

It’s interesting how there are so many voices in the world that exist vying for our attention and tempting us into stagnancy. I think stagnancy also has to do not only with “camping out” at a certain point but not moving at all. The romanticized ideal of “getting there” threatens our inner drive to keep growing, moving forward. At the same time, the idea that there are so many other tantalizing options, prevents us from reaching our potential.

In reality, it is natural to keep moving onward (as seen by time). It’s as if the world wants to distract us so much to the point of “no action”. I reckon that that may be the toughest battle; of trying to shut out all the voices that say “you can’t” or “do this instead” or “you got this” and listening to yourself and realizing that you want to do this one thing and put your everything in it.

It’s hard work!