Yesterday was Bastille Day, the day in 1789 when an angry crowd of Parisians stormed the Bastille, the symbol of political and religious oppression. Creative freedom must be defended too. But the enemies of your creative freedom are not “out there.” They are all the enemies within you… the thoughts, feelings, beliefs and opinions you may never express. They determine the quality of your life.
All This Rage: What’s the Creative Response to Anger?
If we don’t learn to take responsibility for our part in the world we’ve co-created – by our acts or our failures to act – we will continue to reenact the past. So, when you get angry, rather than suppressing your anger, you can learn to move into it, channel it and use it to solve our problems in ways no one’s ever tried.
The Vulnerability of a Creative Vision
Vulnerability is an essential part of the creative path. From the vulnerability to connect deeply with ourselves, to the vulnerability to share ourselves with others. This is the most sacred principle of original creative work.
Faith and the Power of Letting Go
The veil is thin and the radiance of life without limits shines through it here. Opening the aperture to a wider view has shown that there are an infinite number of facets in the gem of universal truth… and that there is magnificent beauty beyond our individual, finite names for it. Truth is always revealing itself, and we are always learning.
Ikigai and the Path from Passion to Purposeful Work
According to the Japanese idea of Ikigai, passion meets purposeful work in the intersection of what you love doing and what you’re good at. When you lay The Wheel of Creativity on top of the Ikigai diagram, you can see a pathway that takes you, step by step, from passion to purposeful work.
The Story Challenge: What story do you want to tell with your life?
If you decide to take The Story Challenge, all next week (January 31 – February 6) you will get a daily email to guide you through that process of building your story day by day, one stone at a time.