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This month’s challenge is going to be fairly technical/logistical, but I can promise you if you give it your best effort, you will come away from it with some valuable lessons.

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Part One

Based on the work you did with the November Creativity Prompts, develop your holistic “Creative Needs” plan. Remember that you can always start small and tweak it after experimenting!

Part Two

When you have your creative needs mapped out, share it with two different people in your life.

• I want you to share it with the person who influences your creative needs the most (perhaps your spouse, partner or your children if they are old enough to understand). Reflect on how they respond to you standing up for yourself and your needs. Do you feel like getting your creative needs met will be easier or more difficult now that you’ve shared your plan with them?
• The other person I’d like you to share your plan with is someone who already supports you in your creative endeavors (maybe this is also a spouse, partner, child but it could also be a friend, accountability partner, fellow creative, etc.) Once you’ve shared the plan with them, see if they’d be willing to hold you accountable. It doesn’t have to be anything extreme, either! Just a check-in or two.

Part Three

Follow your creative needs plan for 30 days and reflect on how it went. Were you more or less creative then before you completed the creative needs work? What aspects of the plan worked really well and which ones did not? Where can you adjust/pivot/tweak your plan to compromise?

This work can be hard and frustrating sometimes, so please make sure to give yourself plenty of grace, compassion, and self-love as you move through the process.

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