I love being a creative person and I enjoy growing my creative skills but the negative side of that is that I'm crazy good at creating excuses for those things I don't want to do. I am the Queen of Justification. If you ever need a reason not to do something, I'm your girl.
Creativity is a gift and a tool that needs a little bit of self control and discipline to round it up now and then so it doesn't end by tripping you up. People equate creativity with being flighty and irresponsible and it can be that if there's no balance to it. In the same way, practicality can be great and bring enormous productivity but without a dash of creativity and play, it becomes dry as dust and ends up choking people instead of energizing them.
Creative "types" don't like people who try to plant their feet on the ground but often those people with their feet on the ground are the ones you can teach you how to take your dreams out of the clouds and into the reality that can be shared with the world and benefit those it was meant to benefit.
Just like an introvert can learn to extrovert and an extrovert can learn to introvert, a creative person can build self discipline and a highly disciplined person can be creative. It just takes a little more energy and can't be all the time. I know that if an extrovert has to be alone and think or study, he needs to be sure to spend time with other people to refuel and if an introverted person has to spend a lot of time interacting with people, he needs to be sure there is time to go into a quiet place and read or think. The point is don't be crippled by your gifts. If you find it hard to be disciplined, staff your weaknesses. In other words, identify those in your life that can help you be disciplined, that can hold you accountable. You have to give those people permission to do that from time to time.
So the moral of this story is, be creative. Fly to the stars and back but build a character who can be disciplined and in control of itself and pack clean underwear.
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