Do More With What’s Working: A Coaching Cue Card

Feeling lost in your creative life? Take a look at what is working in your life and use it to inspire and fuel your creativity. Asking yourself these few cues can promote productivity and get you back in the flow of your creative life. What is working in your creativity? What positive outcomes arise when you do certain activities or have certain mindsets? How do those activities manifest positive outcomes for you and your creative projects?

Do More With What’s Working cues

1. What are you doing that’s working well in your creative life? (What change, choice, routine, process, support, environment, perspective, approach, etc. is making a difference in your progress or happiness in your creative work?)

   I’m _________________________, and this is working in my favor in my creative life.

2. What problem does that solve or prevent?

   Because I’m doing this thing that works well for me, I experience less unwanted _________ and more desirable ________.

3. What would it look like to take winning strategy further—to do more of it or with it, or apply it in new ways or to different problems or opportunities?

   Going further with ______(see above for what you’re doing that’s working well) would look like _______________.

4.  What result would you expect from going further with what’s already working well?

   Going further with this strategy of _______ (as I just described above), I would expect less _____________ and more of _____________.

Experiment, evaluate, evolve. Do What Works.  

Coaching cue cards give you a sounding board with yourself, a way to uncover insights and set your own path forward for a situation you may experience. They invite you to do a little self-coaching about something that can affect your progress and satisfaction with your creative work, whatever that is.  

Coaching cues look easy (and usually are) and maybe a little too self-evident until you take the time to write down your answers and find a moment of insight or inspiration. 

Self-coaching doesn’t replace professional coaching or anything else. It does offer a way to navigate your creative experience with more clarity and a surer touch.