Stop Saying You’re An Aspiring Creative

You’re more than that…

I’m going to package your Monday Motivation in some rather frank terms — you’re not aspiring.

You have never been aspiring. From the moment that you started thinking about wanting to one day becoming a writer, a photographer, a blogger, a small business owner, etc etc etc, you became one. It’s possible that you didn’t have the bank account or the bylines to prove to others that you were that one thing yet — but you had other things that did count in your own eyes.

You had determination, time spent researching, accounts that you followed for inspiration, or books that you picked up just so you could learn more about the craft.

Don’t minimize that by saying you’re aspiring. Shine a light on how determined you’ve been since the moment you thought of this reality as your own.

I know why it may be hard to believe we can own the title of “creative” – we conflate the title with an outcome instead of with the process, I think that’s our first mistake. It’s the main mistake I want you to avoid if you’re on the journey of living life as a creative. Hold on tight to the reality that everything you work on, think about, or navigate through today will impact your creative and financial bottom line.