What Is Your Meta?

In this episode we discuss what is the thing, the idea, that drives your creativity. It's important to discover the  primary generator of your creativity to create work that is presents you as your most authentic, most values-aligned, self.  At the end of the episode is an activity for you to do that will help answer this question.  Here it is, in text form:

Part One: Your Values. Take a sheet of paper, yes, paper, and list as many of your values as you can.

Part Two: Values in Action. Take another sheet of paper and, referencing your list of values, write about an instance where you lived that particular value. Write about a paragraph for each.

Part Three: Skills. Reread your paragraphs and then tease out the skills you deployed to take those actions. Did you deploy humor? Patience? Active listening skills? Did you take a complete idea and make it easily understood by others?

Part Four: Your Meta. Now you have a list of skills. What do your skills tell you, and how you've utilized them, tell you? Do they point towards you being a helper, or someone who serves others? Do they point to your being someone who inspires and/or motivates? Are you someone who fixes things? Are you a guide? Maybe a combination? 

Finding your meta isn't a silver bullet, but it can inform you to make the work that shows the world who you really are.