Ohio and LeBron are like That Annoying Couple...

The most fun I had in the office today was talking to my love and ripping on LeBron and Ohio. I was born and raised in Ohio... So I like to rip on Ohio a lot.

How do you feel about LeBron going back to Cleveland?

Meeting our Inner Creative Child After Years of Abandonment

Over the last few weeks I have become consumed by the thought of creativity. When I was young I was told my art wasn't good in art class. I found myself hating art class. As I grew up I went to business school and struggled to maintain my grades because the material simply didn't interest me. However I ended up graduating with my business degree because it felt safe.

It's been 2 years since I've graduated with my bachelor's and I can't help but wonder how it felt safe for me to go into a field that I had absolutely no interest in. A field that went against all of my inner desires. At one point during my college career my parents asked me if this was what I really wanted to do but I had said goodbye to my inner child creativity a long time ago to turn back at that point, or so I thought.

What if it's not too late to channel our inner creativity we once knew when we were a child? Simply because someone told us it was bad doesn't really mean anything. Who knows, maybe someone else thought our work was good but was too afraid to say so after someone else said otherwise.

I want to rediscover the things I should have discovered as a child but never did out of fear. I want to rediscover art, music, and writing. I want to have the courage to voice my ideas at an office meeting. I want to awaken the right side of my brain. 

The only way I will be able to do that is to let go of the fear of being wrong. After all, what is "wrong"? Who is the person out there making decisions on what is right and wrong? I say we all stop buying into the idea of right and wrong when it comes to art and creativity. It's time we all start expressing what feels right to us in the form of art. I don't know about you but I do not want to wake up when I'm 80 years old and discover I never drew anything because I was scared. That I never attempted to write that book because I was scared. That I never wrote that song because I was fearful of what the world would say about it.

I'm done with being scared of what the world has to say about anything I do. It's time I start being afraid of what will happen when I wake up at 80 and discover I didn't do any of the things I wanted to.

What experiences have possibly caused you to turn off your inner creativity?  

Taking the Creativity Challenge

She felt a song in her heart but she didn’t know the tune or the lyrics.

I work a 9-5 job for a large nationwide bank and needless to say it's less than satisfying. My heart just isn't in the work. I created this blog as a way to explore what and find what is in my heart. It might require a little bit of experimenting and some failures but that is part of the journey. I am introducing the creativity challenging and I'm taking it!

For the next three weeks I will find ways to incorporate these 7 ways of fostering creativity into my life. More to come!

Bird Envy

It's a silly thought to envy the birds but I fantasize about the feeling of opening up my wings and being able to go wherever the wind took me. To know my purpose, no matter how small and to be able to fulfill that purpose everyday.

Dreaming behind a cubicle and how a corporate jerk woke me up

Meet Karina (that's me): A 25 year old working for a big corporate investment bank in Florida behind a cubicle. Nothing passes the time from 9-5 except dreaming of being some place else. Yet for some reason I keep showing up there.

Meet Brad: Brad is a recent college grad who got hired fresh out of college. Brad is what some would consider egotistical. Brad believes he is what this company has been missing. Brad discusses unusual things like how he would never be caught dead in a Walmart, how he talks down to customer service people, and how he likes to laugh at animals suffering.


Despite all of these qualities that I consider to be less than desirable, Brad has something I don't. Brad knows what he wants to be when he grows up... Brad wants to be a big corporate hot shot... I don't. Thus why I'm creating this blog. I want to explore through writing and meeting new people what I love most in this world in hopes of finding my muse and maybe one day I can make money doing something I love just like Brad.