Ever hear of an “elevator speech”? It’s a sound byte—a brief speech entrepreneurs practice to describe how their work benefits clients.
In one of my coach certification classes today, I worked on my elevator speech. Here’s what I came up with:
“Does your most important creative work ever get pushed to the bottom of your priority list or is it your best kept secret? Well, I help women access their intuition and passion so that they can be wildly creative and financially successful at the same time.”
While my speech may require additional work, it does get at the heart of what my clients say they want: to express what is deepest and most dear within them AND to keep food on the table and have a happy, fulfilling life. Most don’t seem to believe that is fully possible.
Several years ago, I had the pleasure of running a focus group comprised of young women ages 16-18. I was in the process of organizing a creativity program for that age group and decided to ask them what they wanted. The girls has been referred to the focus group by parents, friends and teachers who saw them as being highly creative and likely to succeed at creative endeavors.
EVERY girl in the group stated that she did not believe it was possible to be fully creative and self-expressive AND make a living. Each girl spoke of having a secret dream to do something that she was already in the process of letting go of—sacrificing it in the name of finding a respectable job. The girls had been taught to think that way by watching and learning from parents and teachers. And they took their hopeless thinking very, very seriously. I was ASTONISHED!
Some researchers have estimated that, by adulthood, we have suppressed or disavowed as much as a whopping 97 PERCENT of our capacity for creative thinking and output.
What about you? Are you fully creative in your life? Do you believe financial success and optimal creativity are achievable? If not, why not? If so, how so? I’d like to hear from you.....
Posted by Linda Sandel Pettit on 06/02 at 06:44 PM in |
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