Creative Style Inventory

Secret Two I just joined in, so if you have a moment, please visit my first post here, it was late!

I'm starting with the last challenge first - now that's creative. Well, it is totally creative for me. See, I am very constructive. Spreadsheets, schedules, tasks and to dos. I love it all - so the last first is creative!

1. My creative reawakening occurred when I decided to become an entrepreneur and launch a business that was going to challenge the way business is done today and dare simply: to change.

2. My natural talents are: seeing a vision for the future. My God-given talent of always having a positive orientation toward anything. My fearlessness. My emotional strength. My physical strength.

3. Earth grounds me and water revives my imagination and creativity.

4. I create in my home office, while I'm driving and on summer days when I'm lazing about the city at a concert or on a patio. I wish to create in the early mornings again, I miss being an early riser. I live with family right now and they've pulled me into their night owl routines!

5. My creative energy is activated by desire and passion. My creative energy is drained by perceived limitations and by negativity.

6. I don't use creative rituals. I engage in spiritual rituals, these replenish my creative energy.

7. Nature's renewal influences my creative energy, it reinforces to me everyday that something new is possible because it happens ALL THE TIME.

8. My biggest creative hurdle so far has been my mind. The limitations in my mind and my emotions are hurdles that I continually work to overcome.

9. These days the time of day I am most receptive to inspiration is late night. There was a time when I'd spring out of bed at 6 AM with tons on inspiring ideas and I look forward having those days once more.

Creativity and Empathy

Secret One
Acknowledging my creative self is a lot like my journey to strengthen my empathy skills. When I got to the end of the discovery I realized that my empathy was big, deep and all encompassing. Like the universe. It is so big you don't even see it. Wow! That was such an incredible learning. OK, so I forget birthdays and I'm NEVER good at saying "you look great" when I haven't seen someone in a while - actually I think that has little to do with empathy and everything to do simply with speaking the truth. Too bad it's considered a character flaw in our contemporary culture. Of course I don't tell them they look like shit I just don't say anything. But I am always beaming because it is such a wonder to see people.

I digress.

My creativity is in me and with me. It is big and all encompassing and touches every part of my life. It is big, like the universe, so big that I can't even see it.

On this journey I'll be taking off on the space shuttle of creativity to discover my creative universe and I am so so so grateful that I have this group to do it with.

Peace out.

Romana