This week, I want you to get REAL with yourself!

Recently, I asked myself, "How do my artistic expressions reflect my life purpose, and how do they contribute to my personal growth and the well-being of others?" How would you respond to this question? ✍🏾

Your Turn: Creativity and Life Purpose

Let's explore and articulate the connection between our creative projects and our life’s purpose; I want to understand how they support each other.

Steps:

1. Setting the Scene:
   • Create a calm, inspiring environment where you feel at ease. Consider using a favorite spot, lighting a candle, or playing relaxing music. Allow yourself the space to be fully present. (I prefer my bed.)
2. Mindful Contemplation:
   • Take a few moments to settle in with a short meditation or breathing exercise. Slowly breathe in and out, focusing on the intention to connect your creativity with your life’s purpose. (I sit for 5 minutes, with deep breaths in and out.)
3. Reflective Journaling:
   • Our journal prompts for this week:
     • Life's Purpose: What do you feel is the overarching purpose of your life? Consider the values and passions that drive you.
     • Creative Essence: Reflect on your creative projects and/or writing goals. How do they express or embody your life’s purpose?
     • Interconnection: How do your creative projects and/or writing goals influence or enhance your understanding of your life’s purpose? How do they bring vitality, bravery, or connection to your life?
     • Impact on Others: How do you hope your creative and/or writing projects will impact others? How does this relate to your broader purpose?
4. Vision Mapping:
   • Create a vision map that visually connects your life’s purpose with your creative expressions. Use drawings, symbols, or words to illustrate these connections. (If I get bold enough, I might share mine with you all :-)
5. Future Intentions:
   • Reflect on how you might align your future creative projects more closely with your life’s purpose. What steps can you take to ensure that your creativity continues to be a source of personal and social transformation?
6. Share and Discuss:
   • If comfortable, share your reflections with a trusted fellow creative or writing group. Engage in conversation about the insights each of you discovered.

Follow-Up Questions:

• How does your creative/writing process transform your understanding of joy, purpose, or connection?
• In what ways can embracing your life’s purpose enhance your creativity/writing?
• What new creative directions might you explore that align with your evolving sense of purpose?

This reflection is not just an assignment but an ongoing dialogue with myself and the world. It's an opportunity to see my lifework as a canvas where creativity and purpose dance together. Check out this podcast for inspiration and direction.

SAVE THIS PAGE AND COME BACK TO IT as you journal this week.

In the struggle for our humanity,

Dr. Venus Evans-Winters (a.k.a. Dr. V)

Professor, Writer, Author, Therapist

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