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Gaining Momentum — What’s Your Next Creative Power Move?
What if what’s holding you back is holding you down.
Personally and professionally, you are on the upswing and it seems you’ve finally figured out how to work the room. Is this the time to get complacent or is it time to level up and make your next creative power move?
Saturday morning, after a phone call with a friend who gives me great advice, I released some doubts I’d been dealing with the last month.
Physically, I’ve been feeling the best I have felt in nearly 2.5 years.
And now with some extra energy and a clear head, I’ve taken an inventory of my professional career and business. I realized some aspects of my chill-axed approach to achievement are a cop-out.
Don’t get me wrong, meditation, stillness, and mindfulness aren’t a problem. Those are creative empowerment tools I can’t live without.
No, I’m referring to this slow trickle of moving forward with my goals that isn’t my true nature at all. It’s not who I am on an authentic level. It’s who I think I’m supposed to be.
I have lost a bit of my edge — an edge that I owned in my mid-twenties. My edge didn’t make me a favorite among my co-workers back then and certainly not with my bosses until I raised lots of money.
