Last Updated on October 13, 2022 by Hollie Giglietti
We all go through phases in life where we feel like we’ve hit a wall, and our creative life or business isn’t going the way we had hoped.
It can be easy to get stuck, feel lost and not know what path to take next.
On DAY 10 of our Reignite Your Creative Life & Business, we’re talking about finding your passion and purpose in life, even if you’ve been feeling completely lost.
You’ll learn six steps to help you find your creative purpose in life. You don’t want to miss the first one!
And if you’re new to the Challenge, click the image below to sign up and start at DAY 1! This challenge will help you get your creative spark back as a Creative Entrepreneur.
When you feel lost and stuck in life, it can be challenging to find your creative purpose and passion in life. Luckily, there are many ways you can find it, so you can start moving in the right direction again.
Every person has a unique set of interests and creative talents. These hidden passions are what can give us purpose when we feel stuck in a career or personal rut.
Once you discover your creative purpose, it opens the door for new opportunities and ways of thinking that will lead you towards your ultimate goals in life.
Six Steps to Discover Your Creative Purpose in Life
Have you been searching for a way to bring more meaning into your life?
If so, then you need to keep reading!
Creating your own path as a creative person is a challenging undertaking but also tremendously rewarding. Creative pursuits can lead to personal fulfillment and give you an outlet for stress relief.
The following six steps will help you find your creative purpose in life:
1. Discover your strengths and passions
Depending on your personality type, strengths can vary. But whatever they are, they are the qualities that make you who you are.
If you’re not sure where to start, there are several free personality tests that can help you discover your strengths:
- Discover your Project Achetype: “Drawing from brilliant insights of the late Dr. Carl Jung, combined with new discoveries, our research reveals that there are 12 personality Archetypes. Your Archetype is your unique psyche, consisting of your natural strengths, weaknesses and the values you hold deeply. Understanding which type you are can enhance self-growth and help you make better life choices.” – The Project Achetype website
- Discover your Enneagram Type: “This Enneagram personality test will show you which of the 9 personality types suit you best. See how you score for all 9 Enneagram types and understand where you fit in the Enneagram personality system.”
- Discover your Myers Briggs Type: “The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.[1][2][3] The test attempts to assign four categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, judging or perceiving. One letter from each category is taken to produce a four-letter test result, such as “INTJ” or “ESFP”.” – Wikipedia
To Discover your Strengths, you can also perform a self-assessment by answering the following questions:
- What kinds of things come easily to you?
- What do you do better than others?
- What are your natural abilities and skills?
- What are your passions?
- What do you love doing?
- You might enjoy something as simple as baking, or maybe you have a passion for wildlife or the environment. You may even find that your creative outlet is something totally unexpected!
2. Take Time To Reflect
When you are feeling uninspired, it can be difficult to find your creative purpose and passion in life. However, you can’t jump straight into action to solve this problem.
You need to do some reflection first to understand what is contributing to these feelings.
When you reflect, you are taking time to think about the events and moments in your life, and why you feel the way you do. You are putting yourself into a state of mind that allows you to see your current situation from a different perspective.
This will help you break down your feelings into smaller pieces, so you have clarity on what is contributing to these emotions. When you take time to reflect, you will gain a better understanding of what needs improvement in your life. You’ll also have a better grasp on what you want out of your future, which will help you identify creative ways to make these changes happen.
3. Try New Things
One of the best ways to get out of a rut when you’re feeling lost is to try new things that are outside of your routine and comfort zone. By trying new activities, you open the door to discover hidden passions that will help guide you towards your goals.
You may be surprised at the things you discover you love to do, which may lead you to your creative purpose in life.
When you do new things, you open yourself up to new opportunities and ways of thinking that will help you break out of your rut. Doing things you love will make you happier, which will help you find your purpose again.
4. Reconnect With Your Passions
If you are feeling uninspired and don’t know how to break out of your rut, it can help to reconnect with your passions. Your passions are the things that drive you outside of your daily routine, and give you a sense of purpose that you are meant to fulfill.
Your passions are what make you who you are and give you a sense of excitement and joy that you may have been missing lately.
When you reconnect with your passions, you will start to discover what truly drives you in life. You will start to realize your hidden reasons for why you enjoy certain activities, people, and environments.
Your passions will also give you creative ideas on how to make the changes you want to see in your life. When you reconnect with your passions, you will have a clear sense of direction to guide you towards your creative purpose in life.
5. Find A New Hobby Or Activity You Love
If you’re feeling particularly uninspired, you may want to consider trying something new. Trying new things can help you get out of your routine and spark new interests you never knew you had. You may discover an activity you have been waiting to try your whole life, which will help you find your creative purpose in life.
It may be challenging to find a hobby you love if you don’t already have one. However, there are many ways you can go about doing this. You can start by asking yourself what you have always wanted to do, but never had the chance to experience.
6. Create your own path (and know it’s okay to change it)
No two creative paths are the same.
Pursuing a creative passion and purpose is not a super easy process, and one that requires a lot of self-discovery.
You will make mistakes, but that’s okay!
The entire process of becoming a creative person is about finding your voice, experimenting, and making mistakes.
There are no experts when it comes to being creative, so it’s important to know that you don’t have to be perfect.
And above all, it’s important to remember that your creative journey will never be over. The more you practice, the better you will become.
Find your creative purpose in life
When you feel stuck and uninspired, it can be challenging to find your creative purpose and passion in life. However, once you break out of your routine and try new things, it is much easier to find what makes you feel alive.
When you learn more about your personality type, reflect, reconnect with your passions or find a new hobby or activity that you love, it helps you discover what makes you feel alive.
When you discover what makes you feel alive, it helps you find your creative purpose in life!
I’d love to hear what your creative passion and purpose is in life! Tell us in the comments!
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