Creative Discernment: The Hidden Skill

Discover the transformative power of "creative discernment" – a hidden skill that combines self-awareness, discipline, and freedom to revolutionize your creative life. Ever feel like your creativity is being drained by outside forces? This episode reveals how to guard your energy while unleashing your authentic creative voice.

We dive deep into what it means to be truly self-aware in your creative practice, recognizing both your strengths and weaknesses without letting others' opinions derail your vision. Learn why children often create so freely while adults struggle with self-criticism and how to recapture that uninhibited creative spirit. The connection between stress and creative blockages becomes crystal clear as we explore practical strategies to protect your creative mindset.

Discipline emerges as the backbone of creative discernment – showing up consistently for your creativity regardless of mood or circumstances. But this isn't about rigid rules; it's paired with the liberating freedom to express yourself unapologetically. The episode reveals how fear and procrastination work together as "best friends" to undermine your creative goals and offers powerful techniques to break this cycle. From creating a creativity-boosting travel bucket list to daily practices that strengthen your creative discernment muscle, you'll walk away with actionable steps to transform your relationship with creativity. Are you ready to live fearlessly like a lion and reclaim your innate power to create?

Chapters

• 1:13 Introducing Creative Discernment
• 1:55 Self-Awareness and Protecting Your Energy
• 4:04 Fearlessness vs. Procrastination
• 8:11 Travel and Bucket Lists
• 9:37 Applying Creative Discernment Daily

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:37

I want to talk about something I call creative discernment, and this is a hidden skill. Creative discernment, creative discernment, the concept that equals self-awareness, discipline plus freedom. Okay, creative discernment, self-awareness, discipline and freedom. When you hear that creative discernment, what, doesawareness, discipline and freedom? When you hear that creative discernment, what does that say to you? Just think about it for a second. What does that word say to you?

Speaker 1: 1:09

Creative discernment this is like a hidden skill and it's about being self-aware, disciplined and having freedom. Being self-aware. So being self-aware basically means knowing who you are from the inside out and not really allowing other people bullies, naysayers, haters, family friends change who you truly are in a negative way. You know what I mean. You want to be who you are, be fully self-aware of your flaws, of your weaknesses, of your positive attributes, of everything about you. That's why self-care, self-love, is going to be key. It's going to be monumental for the next 365 days of this consistency project, because you want to love on yourself. Don't put too much burden on yourself, don't stress yourself out, don't let other people stress you out, don't let other people bring those negative vibes around you. You know what I'm saying. You know how people can come on and bring those negative vibes around you. So creative discernment is being self-aware. You know, this is like discerning, oh, that energy is not gonna help my creativity boo, you got to flee. Or it's saying, oh, that person is very unique, I like their mind. It's being self-aware of who you are and your surroundings. So being a self-aware of who you are, it's just understanding yourself on a deeper level, being patient with yourself, being gentle as you grow and growing through your mistakes. Now, on this consistency project, we're not trying to make the mistake of being undisciplined or procrastinating. We're not trying to keep making those mistakes. We want to be consistent, meaning being self-aware and showing up, because this is something that we want and that we want to prove, and that we are just going to research and see what happens. Okay, discipline. Discipline when it comes to creative discernment means, like you're dedicated to your craft, you're not allowing even your mindset or anything that is clogging your thoughts to inhibit you from being a creator. We are made here on this earth to create. Did you hear me, guys? We're made to create. Okay, right now, they got the content creators, they got the entrepreneurs they got, but we want to be creators and to create.

Speaker 1: 3:43

People think so deep about it a lot, but it's really just writing, you know, reading so that you can build new ideas. It's really just having that freedom of mind to be uninhibited, to do and say and just speak. You know, kids can be some of the most creative people on earth because they don't have all the criticism, they're not bogged down with all the woes of social media and news and bills and they're not so stressed out. So when when you have stress, it kills your creativity and it kills your creative discernment because you're going to let stress dictate your mindset and what you do in this life. When you have creative discernment, you are always aware about your surroundings, the things that you're doing, watching, absorbing into your mind, and you're always aware that you have this hidden skill to create and discern, meaning like you're very selective about everything that you do. Okay, and last part of that is freedom. Creative discernment meaning you're gonna have that freedom to truly liberate yourself from anything that prevents you from doing what the f*** you want to do with your time, your mind, your hands, your mind, your body and soul. You will do it, get it out, express yourself un-f***ing-apologetically. Okay, unapologetically, guys. Do you hear me? Be unapologetic with your creative discernment, because this is a requirement. How do we practice this creative discernment, like? How? How are we going to like not let people taint our energy? Ew, no, no, thank you. How are we going to not allow people to taint our creative juices? Guys, you want to guard your energy? Yes, guard your energy, protect your energy, protect your peace. This goes back to just protecting your atmosphere, knowing what you will allow and knowing what you will allow and knowing what you will not allow. So guarding your energy, living free and unapologetically at all times.

Speaker 1: 6:13

Be fearless in your life choices. Fearless like a lion. When they walk through the jungle. They just the king of the jungle. They like I'm fearless. Be fearless with your life choices, whatever that is. Be fearless.

Speaker 1: 6:34

Sometimes you might overthink and talk yourself out of doing things. And when it comes to the CDP consistency, discipline and procrastination if you are not fearless, it can impact how consistent you are. If you are not fearless, it can impact how disciplined you are, because you will talk yourself out of it every time and that's when the excuses come in. When you have fear, it allows room for procrastination, because procrastination and fear are kind of like best friends. Okay, procrastination and fear are best friends and they will count you out of your dreams and your goals, being consistent and having success every time, day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute, second after second, year after year, decade after decade.

Speaker 1: 7:30

Trust me, today we want to be creative discerners. We want to practice self-awareness, be disciplined and have freedom to travel and spark our creativity and our in our creative intelligence. Write those dream places that you want to visit down on paper, visualize them, look at them and start marking them off, because these places are going to spark your creativity, they are going to spark you to live your best life, and they are just going to spark you to live your best life, and they are just going to spark you to have that creative discernment. No, ooh, this place was a little weird, but I did learn something you can make a bucket list when you're a teenager 20s, 30s, 40s, whenever Just make that list. It's just like something that you want to do I know it's before you kick the bucket, but Something that you want to do. I know it's before you kick the bucket, but hey, no time is promised, so have fun today. Every day of your birthday, turn up.

Speaker 1: 8:30

Denzel School graduation was one thing that really left me truly, truly inspired and like in a creative mindset. Ever since then it's been tough, but I still managed to keep the creative juices flowing and to definitely, you know, run a business, you really need your creative discernment to be at its highest. So now I definitely use my creative discernment quite frequently, but I think I can get better. We can all get better with this hidden talent, with this hidden skill that we didn't know we could do. You know, you didn't know nothing about creative discernment, but it's a thing that I just thought of and I thought that I could share it with you guys. So, creative discernment, being self-aware, discipline and having freedom of the mind to do the things that you love to create and discern and just be highly intelligent in that area.