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Setting a General Direction

Asking a creative mind to elucidate their thought process is akin to requesting one to map unexplored territory. How does one navigate without a map?

It is better to orient toward a nebulous vision that is directionally correct rather than a fixed destination. This vision serves as a north star that can iterate and change as the journey unfolds and new insights provide clarity.

As we march through life and take on roles and tasks, expectations and judgment cast an ever-growing shadow across the once-sunny landscapes of our childhood imaginings.

Where does the creative mind hide when bombarded by the pedantic moments of daily life?

The creative spirit can feel crushed by the weight of disempowering external events from national to global arenas. The sheer magnitude of life can be an overwhelming force on the emergent properties of the creative spirit, crushing the spark we seek to cultivate.

Discomfort is Momentum Calling

Innovators show the path to new; that is what we do, no matter how the odds are stacked.

The inner world is trying to live in alignment with the physical world. Finding no space to fit her natural shape, she conforms to a poorly fitting costume, struggling to move, let alone feel comfortable in her skin. This is incongruence.

This feeling is far from unique; many of us live lives of quiet desperation, confined by invisible barriers we unknowingly constructed in our minds.

Societal conditioning, circumstance, prejudice, and fear are the poisons that keep us locked in the disempowering state of contorting our lives to fit a mold shaped by external forces.

How do we find our footing, force, and power to remain dynamic, passionate, and prolific and create internal and external alignment, i.e., congruence?

It’s About The Question

Every good therapist uses questions like a surgeon wields the business edge of their scalpel.

The entry point to inner wisdom and action begins with targeted self-inquiry. Explore the ten prompts listed below. These questions are designed to encourage reflection and action on creativity, building on the themes of fortitude, exploration, and authentic expression.

Choose one of the ten prompts that speak most to where you are in your creative process. Give yourself a focused block of time—fifteen minutes or a full day—to investigate the questions it raises.

Record every idea, experiment, and setback in a journal or project log. If you are a perfectionist, journal like you are making a grocery list; do not allow corrections or edits.

The intention is to create space and awareness for your inner world to manifest by exporting your ideas and thoughts onto paper.