Season 1 – MC09: Creative Alignment

What this episode covers

Welcome to the first Mindful 15: A short monthly episode (15 minutes or less) where I step out of the usual format and fly solo, sharing personal insights on self awareness and mindset development from my own journey as a creative entrepreneur. Today’s Mindful 15 focuses on the importance of alignment in helping you stay grounded while building a creative business and body of work. If you do anything with this, I encourage you to first step back and reflect on how this might apply to your own journey, business and story. note – the powerpress player is incorrectly displaying episode length at 16:13. The episode is actually 14:25. Link Love On creative alignment – Brett Henley (for further reading) In this Episode * Alignment as a strong foundation of self and craft that informs what you do day to day (and more importantly, why you do it). * Alignment is about getting closer to your true self as a human and all of the moving parts that matter being in sync both short and long term. * Why it’s important to seek alignment with what will make you feel fucking good so that you can sustain on this long ass journey – not just what will make you sexier and more successful according to external standards. * There are no guides or steps because every alignment journey or process looks completely different. * All of the focus we place as creators on habits, tools, best practices, strategies and plans are a complete waste of energy and time if the foundation of our alignment is missing the why. * Tools we need to go through an alignment exercise: Self awareness; Grace; Patience; Courage to be present and to show up no matter how sloppy it gets. * Grace to forgive the missteps, mistakes and not always knowing what we should be doing * How to get started by reflecting on your truth and asking some tough questions (e.g. What kind of work do you feel truly connected to – regardless of viability or profitability?) * Why it’s important to first take stock of everything currently in your life/work ecosystem (rituals/routines/habits; creative tasks related to your business; distractions). * My alignment process starting with “write everything down on paper so you can examine and reflect on each item,” and how I used the filter “is this something valuable, something that is contributing to a healthy alignment or is it pulling me away?” to get rid of anything that didn’t serve. * Why I started writing what I felt most connected to and what I felt would best serve others and let go of a lot of the pressure and anxiety associated with achievement for the purity of creating in the moment. * How simplifying daily rituals has helped me uncomplicate my relationship with change — exchanging the cyclical anxiety of get better for feeling good. * Why it’s important to remember that alignment takes practice — in many ways, like presence, it is a muscle that must be exercised and honed over time. * Why you should let go of anything that doesn’t serve your true self and reprioritize everything you do on a daily basis to be in alignment with this true self. * Always remember – alignment is a process, not an outcome.   Thanks for listening! If you can please take a moment to subscribe and leave an honest rating and review of the show on iTunes, it will help improve our ranking and discoverability so that we can reach more people. Subscribe on iTunes   To subscribe/leave a review: Click the “View in iTunes” button and follow the prompts once the iTunes app opens.

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