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Why You Need a Clear Creative Vision<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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A few years ago, I held a vision board workshop for a group of people wanting to discover their vision of what was next for them. One of the participants was an aspiring author; he wanted to write a novel. Although he was skeptical of the process, he was curious and stayed open to the possibility that it could work for him.<\/p>\n

And oh boy, did it work! Because making a vision board is a creative process itself, it got his creative juju flowing. He excitedly sifted through magazines, cutting out words and images, arranging them into his creative vision.<\/p>\n

Near the end of the workshop, participants held up their vision boards and described their visions. As usually happens, we discovered symbolism and connections between the images and words that they hadn\u2019t seen while they were making them.<\/p>\n

When it was the writer\u2019s turn to speak, he described his novel in detail. He knew the characters, their connections, the plot\u2014all laid out on his vision board. Making that vision board took him from a general idea for a novel to enough details to get him started. And just as importantly, it energized him for the journey.<\/p>\n

A vision board is a collage with a purpose. It represents your vision or goal, and your big reason behind it. It acts as a lodestar for your next creative journey\u2014to sing in jazz clubs, to photograph horses on the Outer Banks, to paint abstracts in vibrant colors\u2014whatever you long to do!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why it matters. Without a clear vision, and without tapping into why it’s important to you, you will stray from your creative path. Your life is like a multi-dimensional collage of hopes, surprises, connections, responsibilities, feelings, thoughts, and fears\u2014all competing for your attention.<\/p>\n

And whatever captures your attention, captures your time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s too easy to stray from your path, often at the expense of what your soul longs to create. It\u2019s too easy to listen to the negative inner voice that tells you, \u201cyou can\u2019t.\u201d Six months or a lifetime can go by while your jewelry sketches lie hidden away in a desk drawer.<\/p>\n

Through the process of creating your lodestar, you identify your true creative north. When you put your lodestar where you see it every day, it becomes part of the three-dimensional collage of sights, sounds, smells, feelings, and tastes of your life.<\/p>\n

The visual reminder aids you in changing old, entrenched ways of reacting\u2014because when you begin to regularly ask yourself whether an action moves you closer to your creative vision, you begin to create a new path for yourself.<\/p>\n

Living your creative life takes courage. That\u2019s why I call it the Creative Heroine\u2019s Path. (And hero\u2019s path.) Life is inherently creative; you\u2019re creating every day. But are you creating what you want to create? Making a lodestar can help.<\/p>\n

If it feels like time is passing and you\u2019re getting nowhere, and you want guidance in a fun, supportive, small group setting, come to my Lodestar: Your True Creative North<\/strong> workshop at the magical Two Hands Paperie<\/a> shop in Boulder, Colorado on February 21, 2020.<\/p>\n

For more information, see: http:\/\/twohandspaperie.com\/lodestar-your-true-creative-north-new-class-feb-21\/<\/a><\/p>\n

If you can’t make it to the workshop, but you want to create your lodestar on your own, my book, The Creative Heroine’s Path<\/i><\/a>, includes an exercise to do just that!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/article>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t