Creative Energy

There are two kinds of people in this world : those who stop the flow of creative energy and those who enhance it.


If you are a creative, energetic, innovative, entrepreneurial and motivated person, you have to hang out with the same kind of person. Social entrepreneurs are people that do not necessarily want the security of a 9 to 5 job, and are willing to sacrifice a bit of their own comfort for the benefit of others. Therefore, in order for you to help spread the flow of creative energy, you have to make a conscious effort to be around other people who have that same longing. Otherwise, the creative flow gets trapped and never to be seen or heard of again. What a crying shame that would be!


I had this realization this morning when I was sitting with two (what I realized this morning) other social entrepreneurs. We were discussing ideas on how the stimulate the economic, social and cultural development of a small town like Cheticamp (such as we always do), but today was different. The FLOW was happening. There was no one else there to tell us that this wouldn’t work because of this, and bla, bla, bla. There was a sort of triangular energy flow thing happening and we concluded that we are going to join forces with the Arts Council, the Coop Council, the Economic Development Council and the unending creativity of the local high school students, to form a film cooperative. A radical business venture for a small community? Not when creative and realistic minds are joined together and have enough determination to make it work.