Creatively Great

Happy Hump Day Global Villagers!!

For me, yesterday was eventful and emotional.

First, I interviewed two awesome women who are in different stages of their entrepreneurial pursuits. Secondly, I reconnected with an old acquaintance who expressed her feelings of lost of my association and her desire to connect with me on a regular basis.  Also, she informed me that her brother has Stage IV cancer. Next, I talked to a former participant of my Demystifying Sexuality and Its Impact on Trauma intervention. She expressed to me how her participation in my intervention changed her life. Also, I am finally receiving the professional support, expertise, and assistance on my job that has been missing for 2 years. And those are just a few of the events that occurred.

From joy to excitement to satisfaction to confusion to sadness to shock to relief to gratitude, I experienced a myriad of emotions. The irony to all of this is that I composed a poem titled, End of Conversation, in the midst of everything that occurred on yesterday. Also, composing the poem in the midst of everything revealed unto me that I am creatively great. 

You may be wondering what it means to be creatively great. Let's look at it this way. Greatness and creativity go hand-in-hand. Once you discover your greatness and begin to function in it, then and only then do you discover the depth of your greatness. Candidly speaking, most of you discovered your greatness during a crisis, your most painful experience, or your weakest moment.  In retrospect, you realized that during those experiences you had to become creative to conquer the giant that was standing in front of you. This is what I mean by being creatively great. You did not succumb to your crisis, emotions, or weaknesses. You tapped into your creativity!!

Being creatively great is authentic, relative, and individualistic. The poem I wrote yesterday displays that I am creatively great. Not because I profess to be the next Maya Angelou, but because of the circumstances surrounding its composition. I want to encourage you to remember that despite of what you may be experiencing or feeling continue to excavate the depth within you.

Why?

Because you are creatively great!!