Creative Prompt: Begin Again

Who are you today?

Prompt for Creative Thinking

By reflecting on music, paintings, sculpture and poetry, we can open our minds to new ideas, and to creative ways of thinking about the project, challenge, or question ahead.

 

Read the poem Begin Again (below) quietly to yourself, and then read it again out loud.

  • What is the poem saying to  you?

  • What pictures come to mind?

  • Which words or lines catch your attention?

  • What do these words and phrases reveal to you about who you are right now, in this moment, today?

Keep these ideas in mind as you approach your next project, challenge or question.

Begin Again

I meet myself in the quiet of not knowing.

Open to new questions, new solutions.

Alive with curiosity and wonder.

Each breath, a pause, a commitment

to choose presence, to choose trust

in myself, in what I know,

and in what I might find out.

Begin again.

Two hopeful words.

The path is always there.

When I step away,

it awaits my return.

My turn to begin,

again.