Questionnaire
Do any of these descriptions sound like you?
- I want to experience life in a creative way, but haven’t yet found a way to make it pay expenses.
- I’m more aligned with intuitive, non-linear, right-brained work but right now I’m stuck in a left-brained world.
- I have so many creative ideas and inspirations that it’s hard to choose which idea to manifest. I end up frustrated and overwhelmed.
- I’ve taken a lot of hard knocks and criticism from others regarding my creative gifts.
- I feel like whatever I produce, it doesn’t measure up.
- I’m already living a creative life but it’s way too chaotic. I need a simple structure to maintain my direction.
You’ve probably made some or all of those statements. So let’s explore some alternatives with a series of questions.
The purpose of these questions… is to inspire you to clearly define what’s important to you. Answer with as much detail as possible. No one is going to see the answers but you. This exercise won’t provide you with an instant solution, rather a way to become more aware of what you want, and to help you take the first steps toward a wider expression of your creativity in your everyday life.
If you would like to print out the questions to record your answers, click here for a downloadable copy.
1. Change is always happening. What are the tools you use right now to navigate changes in your life?
2. All life experience has value. What are your five most valuable life experiences that have informed your present life?
3. What would you spend your time doing if money were not an issue?
4. What are your particular gifts and talents? How do they contribute to your personal or professional life right now?
5. What do you do with the ideas and inspirations you receive? Do you allow them to incubate slowly? Do you keep them private or do you talk about them?
6. We are all susceptible at times to fear and anxiety. Please respond to this thought, “Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
7. Who was the person in your past who most supported the development of your creativity? Explain why you chose that person.
8. What other values besides creativity are important to you?
9. What are five things you could creatively manifest right now? (It could be anything!) Of the five, which one would you choose to start?
10. You have been granted the power to change one thing in the world. What would it be?
11. Write a four line rhyming or blank verse poem that begins with the words:
All I want to do is learn to sing my ‘song’,
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12. Write a descriptive essay entitled A Day in the Creative Life of ________________ (insert your name in the space). Use images, feeling words, metaphors, etc, to create as vivid a picture as you can of what you want your day to look like. Remember: it’s your ideal day so let your imagination fly.
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