Hi, it’s Day 4 of the Creative Freedom Challenge!
Hopefully by now you’re starting to feel less negative about your way of doing things.
The main thing I want you to take away from this challenge is an understanding that you cannot do creativity wrong. Lots of people like to try to sell a particular formula for writing or making art, but that’s just because they want your money and attention.
Here’s the thing about creativity – we don’t want lots of carbon copies of the same book or the same picture. We want unique creations. Someone can tell you their way of doing things, but that doesn’t mean you have to copy it. You might try it out to see if it works for you, but if it doesn’t, that’s not a failing in you. Their style just isn’t the same as your style. That’s fine. Their work already exists, the world doesn’t need more of it. The world needs your work.
Your unique self – your unique perspective and experience in this world – is what makes your art powerful.
I’m sorry if you’ve been told in the past that you’re “too much” or “not enough” or that your way of being is not the right way. Those people were wrong, and they were just scared of something that didn’t fit the neat box they’d been taught to expect. It’s how they were conditioned. You don’t have to hold onto their fear.
This is your invitation to step into your fullest, most powerful self. The odds of you being here, on this planet, in exactly this form are so unbelievably tiny that you are an amazing miracle. There is no one else like you. No one else can be you. No one else can make the art you can make. It would be a terrible shame to try to be like someone else when you have the incredible gift of being you that only you can share with the world.
So today we’re going to focus on letting go of any apologies or inadequacies around who we are, and we’re going to step forward as our fullest selves!
Worksheet
Take a piece of paper, and at the top write:
I am no longer apologising for…
Underneath, list every aspect of your creative process and your approach to work and “productivity” that has given you feelings of shame, or guilt, or unworthiness.
Look at each item on your list and think how it makes you unique.
You could even turn the list into a poem or piece of visual art.
So tell us… what are you no longer apologising for?
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