Many people I have met over the years who are exploring entrepreneurship have something in common: they are searching for who they are meant to be in the world. What they were born to do in their time on the planet.
So often when we are searching for this thing we’re born to do, we are looking for it like it’s something we lost or something valuable we dropped in the street, like a lost $100 bill, that we must always be searching for or we’ll never feel responsible or complete.
Recently, however, one of my clients shared her story with me and illustrated so clearly that it’s not that we have to go searching for that one thing we are to become but, rather, that we need to connect to the creative conduit that will reveal it to us.
She explained to me that toward the end of her corporate job experience, she felt a deep sense of longing to do something creative. At that stage, she felt that doing something creative as a career would be such a wonderful way to make a living.
She had always been interested in flower arranging, so she took a class and loved it. She had a natural talent for it and enjoyed connecting to her creative self. Within months of completing the class, she took a second job in the evenings and on the weekends as a floral designer at a local flower shop, and during the day she continued working at her corporate job.
She explained to me that at that point, she felt her world opening up. She started seeing possibilities instead of wallowing in misery. This new awareness and attitude was key to finding her calling. Within a year of floral arranging, she was looking through some local newspapers and flipped through to a page with an ad for a workshop teaching Reiki. She had never studied or thought about Reiki before, yet somehow she knew the minute she saw that ad it was the opportunity for which she had been searching.
Right below that ad was another for therapeutic coaching certification. Yet another curiosity was sparked.
The workshop in Reiki uncovered her gifts and talents as a healer. She wanted to take it even further and soon became a certified therapeutic life coach and added a few more healing modalities that she could use to help her clients.
It wasn’t a strong desire to become a healer that led her to her true calling, but her ability to connect with a creative conduit, in her case floral design, that led her to her ultimate calling. And now she has the added benefit of having both in her life.
As you search for a connection to the person you long to become in the world, I encourage you to look for your creative conduit. Woodworking, writing, painting, singing, acting, teaching, crafting, sewing, gardening — whatever connects you to that center of creation. It will ultimately lead you in the direction of your dreams.
