Checklist for Creative Confidence
Doing creative work, we’re challenged at every turn.
Where do you sometimes stumble? Which creative competency are you most confident about?
Getting started every challenging day
Taking the boldest steps
Staying alert and aligned with our selves, teams, visions, and lives
Keeping going, not distracted or derailed from our goals
Reaching the breakthroughs
Bringing others along with us or to our completed work
Finishing strong and letting go with confidence
Finding the next spark of inspiration
Choosing among a bounty of ideas
Defining the new vision or goal and finding a path to it
Solving Problems Before They Occur
My work is helping people solve these problems—often before they occur. When you work with me or with my self-coaching tools, you’re working with your own success strategies, geared to the four stages of the creative cycle.
Let’s Get Started
If you want to get started, download the free Creativity Compass.
This self-coaching tool helps you choose among three depth levels for navigating change work, or original, inventive, or discovery work. Together they can help you lean into what’s already working and strengthen any stage of your creative experience.
The Daily Navigator can help you with numbers 1 and 4 on the checklist: Getting started every day with a targeted, right-sized action that you’ve already cleared a path for, and keeping your head in your creative work despite distractions.
The Weekly Navigator is a stand-out tool for creative competencies 4-6, though it can help with planning and breakthroughs for all of them.
Every time you do a weekly navigator you re-ground yourself in your creative goal or vision, do a head and gut check with how you are doing, and get insight into how what you learned from the last several creative work actions or sessions can make the work you’re about to do better, easier, and more impactful. Stay alert, aligned, and focused, connected to your goals and anyone who needs to be involved. Identify the most relevant problems and opportunities. Experience insights and breakthroughs that make your creative work smarter, not harder.
The Project Map, like the Weekly Navigator, strengthens all ten creative competencies. It really shines with 6-10. When you build a project map and check in with it regularly, you see where you are, where you’ve been, and where you’re going. Your vision for decision-making is clearer and you see where your regular activities in this project are—or aren’t—lining up with your destination.
The project map helps you make space for the new sparks of inspiration; define your vision, goal, and path; choose among a number of alternatives if that’s what you’re facing; and build better connections to others who can help with or benefit from what you’re doing, depending on the stage of the project you are in. Because you can see your creative conclusion coming more clearly, you can plan for the strongest finish possible.
Fore more support, insight, and breakthrough, you can contact me here to discuss how to work with the creative competence area you would most like to boost.