There's something to be said about allowing ourselves the space to adapt and evolve , particularly when it comes to our purpose . I think many of us feel as though we might be called to do one thing , and for some of us we're trying to figure out what that one thing is .
But I'm here to make the case that for many of us , we have multiple purposes over the course of our lifetime . Hey friend Aaliyah Cheyenne here , welcome back to the Prolific Hub podcast . Now , your purpose may not be tied to just one thing . It may be tied to multiple things .
I think the work then becomes understanding what your purpose is in any given season , taking aligned action to get to the place where you want to be , moving with conviction , and then recognizing and embracing seasons of change when change is inevitable . How you start may not be how you finish .
So here are some important questions to ask yourself , to dig deeper into your purpose in your current season . What do you already know for sure that you are meant to be fulfilling in this current season ? For me , that feels like this podcast . For me , that feels like pouring into a book that I'm writing .
For me , that feels like other aligned purpose projects that I'll be excited to share very soon . Another thing to sit with is to think about what lights you up when you're creating something or working on a project . What gets you the most excited ?
For me , it's sitting down to interview for this podcast , or to talk to you and share thoughts and insight and ideas and have a back and forth and ask questions . For me , I feel lit up and excited when I'm pouring into a creative project that I know come easy to you or second nature to you . Are those also things that get you excited ?
Are those also things that light you up ? Another important question to ask yourself is you know , what do those closest to you regularly tell you that you're really good at ? Because they have insight about your blind spots ?
You might not think something is a skill or that you're good at a particular thing , but a friend or a family member might really see it in you . For example , people in my life have told me I could be a motivational speaker . People in my life have told me that I'm really good at analysis and project management and I'm really organized . I'm really organized .
Those might look like really simple things to me , but for people who lack those skills or qualities , it can be an asset to them or an asset to someone else who might need that for their creative life or for their business .
So it's important to get that feedback from those who really see you , because they can help you to see the blind spots that you might not even be aware of yourself . I think another important question is to look at what modalities can support you in a deeper understanding of yourself .
Whether that be your astrological birth chart , your human design Myers-Briggs Enneagram birth chart , your human design , myers-briggs Enneagram , your life path number , your soul urge number , I think these are important tools and modalities that can really help you to get a deeper understanding of who you are , what lights you up , what you're naturally good at , what you
were born to do , and these are tools that can provide a lot of insight to help you just understand yourself more deeply . So I would think about it , think about the answers to these questions for yourself and really sit with them and explore them and see what comes up for you .
Now , if you're already ankle , knee , cheeks , chest , neck , head deep into a purpose and you feel good about it , great , I love that for you . But if you're that deep and starting to question what's next or wondering about whether or not this thing feels aligned or if it still feels good anymore .
If you're starting to have ideas about a new season , my advice would be to lean into that . Lean into those feelings , explore them . They may be trying to alert you that you need to rest or change the way you a creative . As creatives , we know that being creative ebbs and flows .
We can go through seasons of extreme creativity where we're just producing and outputting , like all of the things that are in our minds , like mad geniuses , and then the next season we're resting and recuperating and recouping and questioning everything or coming up with our next brilliant idea .
It's part of the creative process , but I think , if all else fails , it might be an indicator to embrace the pivot . You know , perhaps you're meant to close one chapter to start the next chapter , or maybe you're meant to put that book down all together and start writing a new story .
I think , all in all , we have to allow ourselves the grace and the space to change and to evolve , and that includes allowing our purpose to change and evolve too . Okay . So with that , I want to share two resources that I listened to recently that I thought were extremely relevant .
So one of them is lessons learned from running a creative business via the Slay Girl Slay podcast . I thought that episode was short and to the point , but really informative . It really highlighted a number of things for me as a creative running a creative business that we have to be very mindful when it comes to particular things .
Running a creative business oftentimes means you are the boss , the manager , the employee , tech support , hr and everything else . There are no separate functions , especially if you're doing it solo and you don't have a team .
You literally are everything and , as overwhelming as that is , it was helpful to listen to that and be reminded of that and be reminded that , as a creative with a creative business , I am not alone in that . Another episode that I really enjoyed recently was the Find your Zone of Genius episode of the let's Try this Again podcast with Bea Simone .
It featured Jasmine Mercado and Carla Williams , and they highlighted a number of things that we've talked about on this show as well , everything from doing your research . We talked about that in our episode featuring Kat Sterling , who is the COO of New Spira and author of why they're Winning and you Are Not .
Kat talked a lot about building a business case , having a business plan and doing your market research , which is really important . In the same episode of the let's Try this Again podcast , they talked about pivoting . We also talked about embracing the pivot and pivoting a lot in our episode featuring Shannara Pierce . That episode also talked about knowing your why .
We've talked about the importance of knowing your why in a solo episode of this show and also again in our episode with Kat Sterling . That Find your Zone of Genius episode of the let's Try this Again podcast also talked about doing things scared . We talked about that on this show too . We talked about doing it alone , doing it scared and doing it anyway .
The importance of stepping out of your comfort zone . So many other powerful themes came up in that episode . I thought these two episodes of these two shows were extremely relevant and timely , so I wanted to share them with you . They'll also be linked in the show notes . Be sure to check them out if you haven't already .
I found these episodes to be really informative , valuable , aligned with some of the same topics that we talk about on this show .
So I definitely think , if you are creative , if you are a creative entrepreneur , if you are a business owner small business owner , large business owner , whatever the case might be , these are episodes that might really be relevant to you , so I think they're worth your time and I think they're worth checking out .
So they'll definitely be linked in the show notes below , so be sure to tune in and check them out , if you can . Okay , friend , that's what I got for today , so I would love to ask you how is , or how has , your purpose evolved ?
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Thank you for lending me your time , your energy and your ears . I appreciate you so much for being here . All right , friend , have a great rest of your day , evening or night , and I will catch you on the next episode . Bye .