Creativity is a top CORE VALUE of mine. I’ve identified 5 of them that I make a deliberate priority in my life (for today’s article I’ll focus on creativity). I’ve consciously built my life around my core values. I don’t try to arbitrarily fit my core values into my life, no I make my core values what I build my life for. My core values are my priorities.

Maybe creativity isn’t a core value of yours yet, but I want to make the case that you should consider incorporating and embracing the creative process into your life for more fulfillment, better problem solving, and more joy. I don’t think we all need to be “artists,” by any stretch of the imagination, but I do believe that embracing our creativity like knowing and living our core values, is a key to life. For me embracing creativity means also embracing process.

If you haven’t yet created a creative space for yourself, I want to encourage you to carve it out. A place where you can leave your creative tools out for a day if need be when you are working on a project. Even if you can’t devote a whole room to your creativity, maybe you can carve out a shelf or a dresser drawer or a corner of a garage. I want to encourage you to comment below and let us know your “must have’s” in your creative space and if you feel called share a picture of your creative space too.

Tony Robbins famously says “ People will do more to avoid pain than they will to gain pleasure”. If you’re thinking of leaving a job, a relationship, a situation, a habit that isn’t suiting you to try something new and foreign, I can guarantee that you will never actually feel ready. When you sit in the place of knowing you need to leave but not leaving or knowing you need to take a risk and not leaping you are sitting in the seat of actively working to avoid pain instead of actively working to grant yourself pleasure.

One of the things I have the hardest time with in my industry as a coach is hearing fellow coaches market their work by saying “this experience will transform you” or “this experience will be life-changing”. I have created courses and programs and experiences that people have called transformational or groups that have changed lives for the better, but in my opinion that is not the goal of my work at all, and marketing it in that way in my opinion is harmful.

A mistake I’ve made in the past was thinking I was an “all or nothing person”. I was all in or not in at all.