Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life

Walking my path took an epic amount of effort—hours of exploring, practice, trial and error—before there were any results. Money was a constant concern; I spent my first few years waiting tables on the side, eating ramen, and weighing paying household bills against the cost of buying film for my camera. Whenever I did have the opportunity to practi

To do it, we must tap into our true, authentic self. This means that creativity is the process of learning to trust oneself.

The only thing that matters is that you take action. Start creating. The burden of tamping down your creativity every minute of every day is exhausting. It makes you sick, sure—stress and anxiety have proven negative health consequences—but it also drains your soul.

It’s the ability to make your ideas manifest in the world.

I still felt like a newcomer, an outsider, a fake.

As a Resister, you are stubborn, pragmatic, rational. These are phenomenal attributes when facing down a creative challenge. Once you escape your limiting beliefs, there will be no stopping you.

Starting isn’t your problem. It’s stopping.

We have a limited amount of time on this planet and if we don’t learn how to put things in their proper place—financial security, health, family, and so on—we’re never going to get past square one.

The first and most powerful step in reopening your creative channel isn’t learning a certain skill or uncovering a hidden talent. It’s just identifying—remembering, really—one important thing: YOU ARE CREATIVE.

The world would have you believe that a creative practice is an indulgence, an impractical waste of resources better invested in . . . something else,