I love metaphors. They make things easy to understand. So a pie is my metaphor for today’s post.
Coaches, authors, mastermind groups, and other leaders recommend that naming and balancing all the various aspects of your life can help you live a more joyful life. They list things like family, relationships, financial resources, business and career, and personal and spiritual development. And yes, it’s easy to see how all those things fit into the pie.
I’d like to invite you to add creativity as a separate category all on its own. In your life pie, does creativity have its own piece? Do you practise creativity on a regular basis?
Let’s go a little further with this idea. What if you substituted the word innovation for the word creativity? How about insights? New ideas? Wouldn’t daily insights make a huge difference to your business or personal life?
If how we’re creative was as high a priority as say, how we make money, wouldn’t that change our world perspective? Think about it.
The lines separating the pieces of pie are much more delineated than the lines separating the various parts of our life. Things tend to blend together and the same is true of creativity….there’s no doubt you are bringing your own ability to create into all the parts of your life.
But if you did make it a separate category, what do you think would happen to all those other categories?
Certainly food (or pie) for thought!
