What Are You Creating If Not Yourself?

"If you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself."
- Carl Jung

What is creativity? Is it only painting or singing or dancing?

Do you think you "don't have a creative bone in your body," that you're not creative because you can't even draw stick figures.

In my Jump-Start Your Creative Heart workshops, one of the first things we talk about is this skewed definition of creativity. And then I bring out my favorite dictionary for children and read that the word create simply means "to make something new." It says nothing about requiring a paintbrush or clay or even artistic talent.

Creativity is seeing things in a new way.
Creativity is making a new choice.
Creativity is becoming aware of where we are and where we want to be in our lives.

Creativity is energy. It is how you notice the world around you and share it with others.

So how can we apply this to creating ourselves?

It can be everything from how we wear our hair and the clothes we choose, to how we decorate our home. It can be how we choose to say YES and NO in our lives.

It can be realizing the work we most love to do and finding ways to incorporate that into our daily lives, even if we aren't being paid.

Creating begins with paying attention. As soon as we begin to take inventory of what and who we are, we are able to see what more we want to create for ourselves.

So who are you today? And what would you love to create for yourself?

By: Ruth Davis

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Ruth Davis is a Creative Living Coach and the founder of Spark the Heart. In addition to one-on-one coaching, she leads workshops and retreats that combine practical coaching techniques with creativity and play to spark her clients' deepest passions and dreams. Ruth's greatest passion is engaging with and encouraging others to explore who they really are and how they want to create and live a more passionate, more purposeful life. Click here to read her story.