In my last post, I shared the two core questions you have to ask yourself if you’re trying to build a creative career.

Career. Such a yucky word. Filled with all sorts of chores and stress. Why ruin your perfectly content creative endeavor with boring business? It’s like putting ketchup on tacos. Bleurgh.

Building a business sounds like a huge undertaking when all you want is a creative hobby.

But what if I told you that those same questions I shared with you can be reflected inward to make you a more creative individual?

Instead of thinking of them as a way to hustle for more clients and customers to build a business, you can use them to fuel your creativity and achieve more from your hobby.

You may never want to charge money for your services or embark on the Odyssey’esque journey of building a career, but if you’re like most people, you haven’t achieved the creative results you’ve hoped for.

So instead of asking those two questions to find clients, turn those questions around and ask them of yourself.

Instead of asking, 

“What problem is my customer/client facing that I can solve?”

Ask,

“What problem am I facing that I need to overcome to feel more fulfilled as a creative?”

Instead of asking,

“What is the specific result my client/customer wants?”

Ask,

“What is the creative results I would like to repeat over and over again in order to feel fulfilled?”

By flipping the boring “business speak” on its head we’ve transformed it into a self-development tool that helps us overcome our creative struggle. 

So ask yourself, whether you’re an artist, singer, writer, or TikTok dance creator (how does one get into that exactly? #AskingForMySister),

“what kind of repeatable results do I want out of my creativity and what what is standing in the way of me getting there”

Here’s a hint: There are four figures standing in your way. and they are waging war with each other at every level. 

In my mind, they are menacing medieval figures: zombies clad in rotten armor and wraiths in tattered rags fighting valiant warriors and valkyries with bulging muscles and beautiful skin (or maybe I’ve just been playing too much Until You Fall on the Oculus Quest).

Tomorrow I’ll tell you more about these mysterious beings and what you can do to beat them to achieve the results you want.

While you wait, make sure to sign up for my crash course on how you can achieve more with your creative skills. 

I’m going live this Friday at 10 am Pacific and you can register for your slot right here.

Talk soon,

Björgvin

P.S.

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