What am I good at?

What am I actually good at?  What is my profession?  The answer is easy if you have been trained as a doctor, baker, nurse, footballer or accountant etc.  But what if you have done a diverse amount of jobs in your life (or no job at all) and don't consider yourself master of anything. Questions like these arise at certain times in our lives that are a fundamental pillar to progression.

Many of my interests are also part of my work and I often feel like I am skimming the surface of so many different, yet wonderful things. But not having time to delve too deeply into any of them, I can no way become an expert in them.  What works for me is to engage people who provide the expertise I need, whilst I go on to develop knowledge in my subject area.

Does it matter that we are not experts in one thing?  Is it better and more exciting to be flexible, diverse and creative with the knowledge, skills and abilities we have and build on these?  For me, that's were reading and practical application comes in.  Training and education is important when the time is right, but gaining a valuable underpinning knowledge from books and experience is inspirational and progressive.

I often feel like a product of my creativity and not the other way around.  My head is so full of creative ideas every single day; ideas that I really want to pursue and take forward.  Perhaps when I get to the lucky postision of having a team in place to help move projects on, I can fully realise my true creative potential.

What is my purpose in life?  What really lights me up and sets my passion on fire?  Other fundamental questions that when married and answered with the first two will create an inspirational life worth living.

When these or any other questions arise that I need answers to, I find intuitive writing an excellent tool to help me. We have the innate ability to coach ourselves, to move ourselves forward and to answer the questions that we often want answered by outside influences.

Creative Journalling

Intuitive Writing Exercise

1. Open your journal to a clean page and date the top.  If you have a specific question you want answered then write the question at the top of the page now.   

2. Sit comfortably and relax your body into the chair.  Empty your mind of all the chatter that clutters your mind for a moment and try not to think about anything but being relaxed. Spend 5 minutes relaxing your body and mind.  Imagine yourself silencing your mind by creating a studio.  You are sat in the centre of the studio holding your journal and pen and you are mentally turning down the knob that removes all sounds from the room.

If you want a question answered move to number 3

If you want to access your subconscious move to number 4

3. Concentrate on the words you have written down, nothing else, just the words.  Let them enter your mind and move around without letting the chatter start again.  Just the words moving in and around your mind as you move the pen onto the page and write down the very first thought that comes to you and continue writing whilst the words are flowing.  Do not think about the words you are writing, just write whatever comes as fast as you can but not too fast that you miss anything.

4 . Just concentrate fully on emptying your mind and relaxing your body.  When you have stopped the chatter in your mind completely immediately write down whatever comes next and carry on writing whilst the words are flowing.  Do not think about the words you are writing, just write whatever comes as fast as you can but not too fast that you miss anything.

5. As soon as the words stop the exercise is over.  As soon as you feel like reading what you have wrote the exercise is over.

6. Look at what you have written.  Has your question been answered?  What has your subconscious been keeping logged that needs to be released?

 

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