Mission: Creativity?
April 24, 2008
A couple of random associations to share.
1. A few weeks ago, I had a strange dream. In the dream, I could feel how I feel right now in my every day life. I am generally happy, I enjoy my work, and I am getting out more and meeting people. And as I was experiencing my life as it is now, a disembodied voice whispered in my ear “You are not living your mission, yet.”
I woke up at this point and thought “Crud! I really like where I am. Does this mean I have to change my life or is it that my mission is yet to be revealed…? And as I thought about that question, my intuition responded that it is the latter. My mission is yet to revealed. It is still ahead of me.
So, I walked around with this knowledge and a couple of weeks ago, my company went through a round of layoffs. That is something it had never done in its history and I thought – maybe this is my mission? To be here now and be positive and be part of the solution.
And then a very strange and thrilling work work opportunity presented itself – maybe that is my mission?
2. So, Julia Cameron, in the Artist’s Way, talks about synchronicity as if it is a force of nature. As I am thinking about these new experiments in my life, tapping back into creativity, calling back my voice, I have a short meeting to “catch up” with the managing partner at my firm. I go in thinking about why he would want to talk to me…and surprise, all he wants to do, really, is catch up. Being my bad self, I go ahead and tell him about this creativity experiment and the blog and he responds by telling me about his own wish to write a blog. I tell him about Carol Gilligan and the red flower and he’s so thoughtful about it. We explore ways to learn more about creativity, interesting projects; and the meeting ends with his offering support for whatever budding creativity initiative I may want to bring back to the firm. Whoa. Synchronicity. So I’ve been saying that I want to get paid for using my creativity, and it feels like the door cracked.
Not saying that this is my mission. But the juxtaposition of recent events makes me think I am getting closer and closer to my authentic life – one filled with creativity, love, and abundance.
No major take away…other than “Hope lives.”
