The millionaire author is sitting on the stage, and the host is taking questions. 

“Hi, great speech. I want to write books, just like you. I’ve met a couple of agents, I’m halfway through writing a book proposal, and I’ve got a very small mailing list. I know I should be promoting myself more, and focus on growing the list, and build relationships with influencers. But I just want to write every day. Do you think there’s a way I can make a daily writing habit work with all the activities it takes to sell the book?” asks the asker.

“That’s a permission-seeking question, if I ever heard one,” the millionaire author chuckles.

The millionaire author continues to speak, but the asker has tuned out. 

Some changes happen slowly, this one happens fast. Not only is the rest of the answer irrelevant to the asker, the millionaire author has provided the asker with an epiphany: 

That was the last bit of permission that the asker needed. 

They would not need any more permission to be creative. They would let themselves bring the ideas they imagined into the real world. They would start writing.

The asker has taken the first step away from asking, towards doing.

If you’re an asker, congratulations, you’ve just received permission to start wondering. To spend some effort not into being productive, but to start doing things that pursue and cultivate that wonder. 
That’s the first step. I write about the second and third steps in Creative Doing.