In case you hadn't heard, every-other-Tuesday we're publishing "Magic 8-Ball" episodes! AKA, we shake up the nearly-200 episodes we've released in the past two years, and the one that rises to the surface has a message that you needed to hear today.

Today's episode is a blog from April, 2018 about our collective hang-up around what "creativity" means. Considering that a lot of us all of a sudden have a lot more time to be creative, it's imperative that we give ourselves permission to actually do that.

I've spent nearly three decades being mildly annoyed that real life gets in the way of fantasy. To me, fiction and art and music often feel more REAL and TRUE than the monotony of everyday life, with its bills and laundry and mountains of responsibilities.

Could you make a case that maybe this is a PROBLEM? That I'm trying to escape reality and live in a perpetual state of denial? You probably could. But hey, I'm still paying my bills, and my laundry gets done, and I'm not shirking my responsibilities. So, cut me SOME slack.

Thankfully, I've found a way to weave creativity into my daily life. I'm not just absorbing other people's creativity—in the form of books, movies, TV, music, and art—I've also built a business that's fueled by my own creative inspiration. But I get that a lot of people don't have that kind of seamless integration.

I was talking to one of my clients, Gwen, about this recently. She was feeling guilty about wanting to pursue writing—something she finds really fun and inspiring—because it's not "practical." It got me thinking about how warped our definition of "creativity" is, and how many weird "rules" we silently follow about what we're "allowed" to pursue, creatively.

In this blog I'm (Rachel) talking about why you should never feel guilty about doing what you love (be it writing, Netflix, or anything else), and what the REAL definition of creativity is.

After you've listened, leave a comment to let us know how you're getting creative in these weird times!

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY FOR 1:1 COACHING ENROLLMENT!

Today, Tuesday, March 31st is the last day we're accepting sign-up forms for 1:1 coaching clients!

• This enrollment period is for people interested in getting started ASAP (within the next 4 weeks).
• You don't have to know for sure that you want to move ahead with coaching. You just have to be serious enough about it to want to have a conversation.
• We will have coaching spots open up before we take on the next "official" wave of clients (which won't be until later in June 2020). So if you're not ready now, or you've found us in-between "official" enrollment periods, then you can add your name to the wait list and we'll contact you if and when we have availability.
• There are two options—2 months or 5 months. Brush up on the difference, here. No matter what, all of our clients get access to 10+ hours of structured content and unlimited email support.

If you're serious about the possibility, fill out this form and we'll schedule a conversation with you!

Want to hear how our coaching process works (and why it works so well)? Check out our episode, "Why career coaching has (almost) nothing to do with your career" from October 2019.

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