The Power of Creativity \(Book 1\): Learning How to Build Lasting Habits, Face Your Fears and Change Your Life pdfdrive com

The Personal Mission Statement
Admit it.
You’re  afraid  of  spending  so  much  time  alone  with  ideas  that  might  never
pay off when you could be earning real money and experiencing more success in
a  regular  job.  You’re  afraid  of  the  disapproving  looks  from  your  friends  and
family when you go into your room or studio alone, again.
You’re  scared  of  wasting  your  time,  of  making  the  wrong  decisions,  of
failing and, when you’re honest with yourself, of not listening to the inner voice
that whispers in the middle of the night, create, damn it.
Creative work involves so much ambiguity that you need a way of keeping
motivated.  You  need  a  guiding  purpose  to  navigate  around  your  fears  and
explain, if only to yourself, why you do what you do.
No hard and fast rules ensure keeping motivated and figuring out what kind
of creative person you are, but a personal mission statement will help.
A  powerful  support  system,  the  personal  mission  statement  will  help  you
navigate the choppy currents of work and daily life.
When you face a big career decision, you’ll be able to steer your craft in the
right  direction.  You  can  use  your  mission  statement  to  prevent  being  dashed
upon the rocks or from getting stuck in shallow waters.
Now,  you  might  be  thinking  a  mission  statement  sounds  like  something  a
company or organisation would adopt, but in times of crisis or indecision, your
personal mission statement will serve as your oar.
When  I  was  unemployed,  I  used  the  exact  process  below  to  write  my
personal  mission  statement,  find  a  way  out  of  the  darkness  and  decide  what  I
was going to do with my career (or lack thereof).
Are you ready to get started?