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Finding Your Purpose as a Creative
Recently, I spent a weekend dreaming, creating, and talking, and it was very much needed. Most of it may never be seen, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth it. You need to take time to create just for you, before giving yourself to others. Self-care isn’t just a buzzword; it’s essential to the creative life.
The important thing is that I, for once, didn’t push the scary thoughts away and instead focused on where they were leading me and what the mix of emotions meant.
As a Type A creative who always feels like I could be doing better, it’s difficult to let yourself embrace the unknown.
One of the most helpful acts I did that weekend was answer the questions at the end of the Artisan Soul. I was tempted to ignore them and put the book back on the bookshelf until I wanted to read it again, but forced myself to do the messy work it entailed.
I’m not going to share all the questions here, because one, you should buy the book and dive into all of it, and two, it’s not my work to share.
But a number of them revolved around finding your voice, changing your perspective to realize that we’re called out by God for a life of intention and purpose, and discovering the type of world you want to create.
