Becoming a Creativity Coach

I just finished doing my vision board yesterday and had them happily hosted on my bedroom wall.  Two whole sheets of cartolina-sized brown craft paper.   Took me 2 days to finish them.  

I'd like to talk about the career aspect.  I put in corporate life coach, creativity coach, and creative writer.   The common denominator being creativity coach.  


What does mean for me to be a creativity coach?   Why do I want to be that?  What will it take for me to become that?  What can I do now? 


Q1:  What does it mean for me to be a creativity coach? 
A1:  It means that one, I am creative, and two, I am a coach.  By being creative, it means I create life in accordance to my design.   I design how I'm going to live, how I'm going to make a living, who I'm going to be with, and so on.   Key word is design.  By being a coach, it means I have earned my right to coach people to design the life that they want, because I have been able to design the life that I wanted.  Creativity is about creating beauty, expressing one's inner thoughts and ideas, and communicating the message clearly.  Coaching is about enhancing life.  It's about going for a healthier, happier option. 


Q2: Why do I want to be that, a creativity coach? 
A2: Because I want to embody creativity, for it is within me, waiting for me to unleash it.   I have a message to communicate to the world.  The best way for me to communicate it is to live it.  I want people to discover this aspect of themselves too.   To be authentic.


Q3:  What will it take for me to become that?
A3:  For one, I will have to experience creative living.  What is creative living?  It is being independent, making the most of my resources, and going through each level in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.  


1. Physiological - Food, clothes, shelter.
2. Security - Safe neighborhood, stable source of income, health insurance coverage.
3. Social - Belongingness.  Acceptance and support from family, friends, and community.
4. Esteem - Personal worth, social recognition, accomplishments.  Travel.
5. Self-actualization - Spirituality. High level of self-awareness.  Commitment to personal growth, fulfilling own's full potential.

Gaining competency in creativity for me means becoming a competent multimedia designer.  I'd like to be able to design things of beauty, that which improves the quality of life.  Earning more income improves one's quality of life because one can afford to acquire what they need to meet a specific purpose.  I'd like to be able to design witty, charming, out-of-this world items that bring cheer to people.  I'd like to design curriculum that bring enlightenment to people.  


Gaining competency in coaching for me means earning my ICF ACC certification.   Because it means I am competent enough to do coaching as a profession.  It also means that I have helped at least 8 people achieve their goals or have higher self-awareness and have gone through at least 100 coaching hours.   

When I am competent, I am in a better position to add value to others.  I'd like to be of value to myself and to the world.  


Q4: What can I do now? 
A4:  I could go to Singapore and live there for 2 years.  Working and saving and sending money home.  Practice self-responsibility.   I could take up further studies in multimedia design.   I could focus in building my confidence in producing good art by not being afraid to produce.  I would have to find a job that would enable me to fund my dreams one at a time.   It will entail faith, fortitude, persistence, and patience.   Lots of patience.  And determination.   It would mean uprooting myself from the Philippines, and rooting myself in Singapore.   I will have to build my foundation.  I will attract the 8 people who are ready to be coached by me and agree on a healthy form of energy exchange, till I earn my coaching certification.  It may take 4-5 years.  I will be able to purchase some gadgets and new clothes, upgrade my insurance coverage, start an investment scheme to build my financial foundation.   


My friend D asked me to make a choice.  In my heart I had wanted to be a real artist.   I have oscillated back and forth between a go-no-go decision of whether to take multimedia design seriously as a career.   I think I have contemplated on it long enough.   I will go for it and there's no turning back.


I will achieve this, by God's grace.