Why creativity coaching is for creative solopreneurs
The crossover from creativity coaching to business coaching for creatives is a natural match, as starting and running a business is one long creative process.
They both bring out feelings we find difficult.
This blog post, and all other Creators Process blog posts are free from AI, and written by me. I share my opinions, knowledge, experience and my Danish typos with you gladly.
You are creating art, writing, doing craft, designing, illustrating, or other creative work. You know the process that involves, the different stages of that process, and the wonderful challenges involved.
Now you want to sell your creative work, and that means diving into another kind of creating process.
A process that involves making a website and creating awareness around your shop, or service.
Feeling overwhelmed, stuck by perfectionism, comparison, habits and negative self-talk is common when starting a business.
Those are exactly the kind of creative blocks I help clients overcome.
Why creativity coaching is for solopreneurs
Kaizen-muse creativity coaching honors and celebrates the non-linear process of creativity and doing creative work.
This coaching looks at your specific process, the imperfect and messy bits that trigger creative blocks, and then you get tools to help you work through them.
That’s two good reasons right there!
Starting and running a business is as much a creative process with ups and downs, as starting and finishing a piece of music, painting, or such.
In my experience, the reason we don’t get the results we are “promised” from online courses, and the like, is because many of us have blocks that gets triggered at different stages, and those courses don’t help us through us that, in the way creativity coaching does.
Before we’re any of the titles we like to wear like funky hats, we’re just people. People with hang-ups, insecurities, triggers, hopes, dream, and intentions.
Going through a creative process will naturally bring up fear because it will expose who you are.
Writing blog posts, designing a website, letting ourselves be seen on social media, workshops, courses, and a million other creative acts related to your business, involves a process for creating it.
Cue feelings of self-doubt and and whole rainbow of fears.
Working through those creative blocks, is the work of a creativity coach.
The solopreneur’s alone process
Solopreneurs are a special kind of brave people.
It takes a lot of courage, learning, discipline, knowledge and creativity to run a one-woman shop, and make it sustainable financially.
Choosing to live knowing you don’t have a secure paycheck coming to you at the end of the month, is vulnerable at best, and downright stress inducing at worst.
Brave is what it is.
Your creative process is your best friend as a solopreneur. It’s the work you wake up to every day, and it can feel comforting, interesting, and joyfully meaningful.
It can also be your worst enemy, if you let procrastination and perfectionism be the boss of you. If your self-criticism is driving the process, work can quickly feel like a chore.
This is where creativity coaching is useful, essential even.
I hope I’ve been able to articulate clearly enough how creativity coaching is worth thinking about, if you’re a creative solopreneur.
The business interest of a Dane - a little back story
When I lived in Dublin, in my early 20’s I got really far in trying to start a business selling Danish ice cream in 1/2 liter tubs to newsagents, and at a unit in the - then being build - Blanchardstown Shopping center.
The only ones selling half liter tubs at the time was Ben & Jerrys.
In the end, with lack of support and funding, I couldn’t pull it off, (so stupid on their part), and after that, I had a couple of “almost made it” business adventures over the years.
I started a vintage clothes shop online that did ok, but cost a lot of money. I made some highly costly website and graphic design mistakes. Knew nothing about online business, which took me on a steep learning curve.
Knowing how to run the daily business operation got me promoted
In jobs I held over the years, I always got promoted, often becoming manager, because I knew how to run a better business, and I could increase the bottom line.
I was, and am, interested in doing business in a good way, meaning with decency, kindness, honesty, transparency, and humor at the core.
Selling products and services that creates better conditions for people and planet.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand, how companies still don’t understand that being dodgy and bullying won’t work in the long run.
Some people can put up with the douchebags, big ego people, and those who would happily sell their own grandmother to get ahead. I’ve never been one of them.
Not getting on with these types of people, has either gotten me fired, or meant I’ve left jobs.
There is a better way.
Over the years I’ve done #allthebusinesscourses, online and in Business College.
Enough to confidently say, I know entrepreneurship is a personal and creative process that is useful to address, as much as your budget.
Becoming a kaizen-muse creativity coach was the connecting link
I trained as a kaizen-muse creativity coach in 2014. I wanted to learn about the creative process, and get tools to understand myself as a creative person with many passions and ideas.
The training was incredible. I hesitate to use the words “life changing”, but for me, it was.
I learned about the process of creativity.
From my fellow coach trainees I learned how many of us are struggling with the same personal feelings, even those we think, on paper, have it all figured out.
The process of creating, whether it’s for a hobby, work, or a business, has the potential to bring out the same feelings that keeps you stuck.
Creativity coaching is your rescue for creative business processes too
It makes perfect sense to seek creativity coaching for your creative business process struggles.
At least a creativity coach with a massive passion for running good businesses, and what Mary Porta’s calls “The Kindness Economy.”
Next time you get stuck doing projects in your good business, maybe a course, writing blog posts, or getting clear on how you can specialize your business, incorporating several interests, you now know, that creativity coaching is what can help you get through your process.
And not just get your through with gritted teeth, but give you tools that will make your personal creative process more enjoyable going forward.
Did I manage to sway you? :)
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