Your creativity was never meant to stay inside a proposal of deliverables – it was meant to redesign the world.

To redesign the world, you have to be the creative director of your life.

It’s here to solve problems – to help the world become a better place and help people live better every day. As a packaging designer; I was always encouraged to believe that the products we create, do this. This is exactly how I build digital products and worlds too – the parallels are strong. Create worlds where people feel at home.

And this is why I have a very specific approach to creating offers, as products – this happens inside gold.(You don’t need to be a designer to join gold btw – all entrepreneurs who ‘create’ offers / products and run a busy business and want their time back; belong in gold.)

Last week I painted this in our gold Co Creation session:

The co-creation sessions include, writing, drawing, play – not just for fun, but because they’re ways to express our voices in different mediums.

When we write, we uncover messages and ideas that need to be shared. Stories that are living beneath the surface that are asking to be told.

When we paint, we drop out of the mind and into the body, and that’s where the new ideas arrive. Painting is also meditative – it calms the nervous system by regulating the vagus nerve and reduces cortisol. I don’t include painting in gold – just for the lols – but to create the SPACE in the busy lives of the women who join to find connection to self and spirit – in community with the others.

To create in mutually shared energy is so potent and powerful! It’s pure sorcery. 🧙‍♀️ It’s also a practice of imperfection – to challenge our growth edges. I’m not a traditional artist. I don’t paint regularly. My god I can’t draw for shit. I did NOT take art at school.

But I wanted the challenge of creating something that would push my edges – as the embodiment of what I believe in. People see meditation and journaling as the saviour and the practice that fixes it all – but I disagree. We have other tools in the gold toolbox that bring presence and connection. Spirituality looks different here.

I then went ahead to create this – super quick – as an experiment:

I wanted to create a hormone balancing concept, again based on the conversations we’ve been enjoying inside gold. About cycle syncing, about how as creators we’re better when we work with our energy not against it. About balancing the masculine and feminine energy in business.

The Inspiration

The inspiration for today’s newsletter was brought to you by my own life.

The Activity

Bilteral Drawing

1. Grab two pens, pencils, brushes etc…

2. Start at the center of the page and draw mirror shapes with both the left and right hand at the same time

3. Keep your eyes soft or closed so you don’t try to control the outcome

This engages both sides of the brain for regulation and energy processing. Noting that it’s also the practice of challenging perfectionism too. It might not be pretty, that’s the point.

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