you’re understimating the power of creativity
Earlier this week, I was talking with a couple of advisors, sharing my professional journey. For the first time, I made the connection that my career had a pre-launching RLS Wealth phase and now a post-launching RLS Wealth phase.
The difference between the two phases can be traced back to one, well maybe two factors.
The first, which is not what this Daily Note is about, is freedom—the freedom to pursue building my business the way that I wanted to in the past and want to in the future. I think freedom is the most important of these two factors because it allowed me to discover the second.
The second, which is what this Daily note is about, is creativity.
In the pre-launching RLS phase, I would not have considered myself very creative, and as I reflect back on that version of myself, I agree he wasn’t very creative. This might be partly because I was in the early phase of my career and I was learning, which kept me close to textbook answers and what everyone else was doing. But even as I was learning, I wasn’t interested in expressing my Self or even consuming other people’s creative outlets.
In the post-launching RLS phase, I discovered my creativity, and it has continued to grow; it has grown so much that now I consider myself a Creative who happens to be a life planner and advisor, not a life planner and advisor who happens to be creative. They sound the same but are very different.
Tapping into my creativity first started with writing a blog. When I first launched RLS Wealth, I knew I wanted to write a blog–I was a massive fan of Josh Brown’s Reformed Broker and I knew I wanted to do that when I could and leverage educating through writing to help grow my business, because I for sure was not cold-calling people.
Starting All About Your Benjamins unlocked a creativity in me that I did not know existed.
Shortly after the blog, I launched a podcast, started another blog and podcast for Entrepreneurs (which I shut down after realizing that was not the path to take), started making videos (my YouTube channel has almost 250 videos, and that is the second channel I’ve had), edited all of my podcasts and videos, shot short-form videos, wrote poems, and painted, and now I’m getting ready to try and learn how to make lo-fi beats to use in my videos.
I can’t turn the creativity off.
And my creativity extends beyond art; it is a part of my work with my clients making me a better planner and advisor and helping them live better and more fulfilled lives.
I know that I don't find my authentic life and would not be on the path that I am on today without discovering my creativity and allowing it to help guide me on my Pursuit.
If you find your Self relating to the version of me that was pre-launching RLS Wealth, start small and allow your Self to express your creativity in a way that feels natural and interesting. You don’t even have to share it with anyone else, although the more comfortable you get, I highly encourage you to share your creative work with the world.
We all have an inner Creator inside of us. We are all Creatives. It’s time to see where your creativity will lead you.
See you tomorrow and keep pursuing,
JC
