Here’s to a Year of Reckless, Creative Abandon!

Amplify! with Karen Curry Parker

Happy New Year!

Every year we start with intentions to do better, to grow, and to expand who we are.

For Creatives, that means setting intentions to push your creative boundaries further than you’ve pushed them before, to stretch yourself and find the courage to open the door to your Heart and share your creative contribution with the world.

One of the biggest places I see Creatives stop themselves short is “imposter syndrome,” the fear that you’re trying to be “greater” than you really are.

Here’s the deal. True imposters don’t have “imposter syndrome.”

Whenever we seek to grow and expand beyond the known, following the inner promptings of our Muse, compelling us to explore every curve and bend of the chamber that contains our creative genius, we’re not really capable of duplicating what someone else has created.

We each have our own creative path to follow. It’s a path that is born of the unique combination of our soul’s intentions, our ancestral lineage, and the narratives we tell about ourselves that are rooted in the soil of our own lived experience.

No matter how hard you think you’re “imitating” someone else, you simply can’t.

Think about this: even the best forgeries can’t imitate original works of art without eventually getting caught.

“Imposter syndrome” is really “comparison syndrome,” the death knell of all creative urgings.

You will never create and fulfill your creative intentions if you’re looking over your shoulder to see if you’re doing it like someone else.

You are a once-in-a-cosmic-lifetime-event. There has never been anyone like you before and there will never be anyone like you again. You simply can’t create like anyone else because you have your very own creative curriculum to explore in this lifetime.

You have a unique, vital, and irreplaceable role to play on the planet. This is a role that only you can make.

When we shut down our creative longings because we compare them to the quality of someone else’s creative journey, we fail to fulfill our true life’s purpose.

Your life purpose is to fully express all of who you are.

It’s not about getting it right, or perfect, or like Michelangelo…

It’s the act of fearlessly challenging yourself to craft your talent, to surge towards the most excellent expression of your unique creative contribution and to find the most aligned articulation of your soul that you can muster.

This alignment IS what you’re here to give the world. This alignment IS your life purpose and the embodiment of your life’s work.

They say that art transforms the world. It’s not the end result - the paintings, the poems, the songs - that change the world. It’s the unmitigated pursuit of our relentlessly authentic creative drive that transforms the world.

You being YOU is the purpose of your life.

No one else can do that the way you can.

Here’s to a year of reckless creative abandon and wild, ungoverned explosions of self-expression!

We are honored to be a part of your creative journey.
May your voices gain strength. May your creative vision stay clear and strong. May your creative fire spark change in the world.

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