Radiate From Your Creative Center
Working with people on their businesses, I notice something that sets those who are stuck apart from those who are happier and achieving growth and success.
Those who take action from the place where their talent and their passion align move more quickly in the direction of their desired outcome. There is a strength, a power and a confidence these entrepreneurs and artists exude. Their ideas flow and there is excitement in the room. I am naming it ‘radiating from their creative center’.
Often they have a confidence that although hard to articulate is noticeable. They make decisions from a place of inner strength and focus.
I am fascinated by this place. It is what our world craves right now on many levels and what businesses are searching for in future problem solvers. Those of us who have this capacity to radiate from our creative center and know how to access this place are in demand.
I see three practices that belong to those radiating from their creative center.
3 Practices to Radiate From Your Creative Center
1. SETTING YOUR INTENTION before you begin. The intention can change as you need it to. Adjust your intention as you go, but set it before you begin by anticipating what you want from your actions.
SETTING THE INTENTION lets it be known to yourself and others that you are drawing in that which you are stating. It is setting the stage with clarity. It is aligning you with a goal.
2. Be intentional about GIVING YOURSELF SPACE TO THINK AND DO NOTHING…I am dead serious. Schedule it in.
A place where clients get stuck with this is in saying ‘no’ to things they sort of like… or feel obligated to do.
Radiating from your creative center means you practice ( if necessary) in front of the mirror saying no to imaginary requests.
“ Can you make a lasagna for the Sports banquet this Friday?”
NO I am so sorry … I have to work and my schedule does not allow for it.
“Can you come to the fundraiser next week? Everyone will be there.”
“No not this time. I have an appointment scheduled that I just can’t get out of”.
For some this boundary is difficult and I totally get it. Practice saying no in front of a mirror. Watch where you get stuck saying ‘yes’ in real time, when you mean to say ‘no’, and practice saying ‘no’ in that situation in front of a mirror.
3. Cultivate Resilience
This is HUGE… De- stigmatize Failure… come up with a new word for failing like, ” this is a new learning” or ” I am in a grobnox” … failing is something to be practiced… the mantra is ” fail and fail fast”…. the future belongs to those who can really embrace this idea…..
Take risks. Learn new things. Make a list of 25 things you have always wanted to do and take a small step towards something on the list. Find people who can help you.
Treat yourself with Compassion. Treat yourself as you would your best friend. If things don’t work out the way you anticipated, be accepting and forgiving. Remember it is the journey not the destination. You are learning something new and it means you are going to be making mistakes and that is O.K.
Experience builds confidence. Act.
This last one is easier said than done for a lot of us. In the movie We Bought a Zoo Matt Damon has a wonderful line he says his father told him:
“ We can do anything if we just have 20 seconds of insane courage”.
What do you long to try?…. Be Brave