I am so fired up today! Last night I had a little fire pit with some amazing girlfriends. I'd just put a few more logs on the fire when they all realized it was late for a weeknight and they needed to head out, so there I was sitting alone in my backyard, next to a beautiful warm fire on a perfect evening under the almost full moon. I felt strong, powerful, loved, and especially witchy! That's when a thought I've been having a lot resurfaced for me…

Here are my 10 steps to creating a life you love. They are not linear, sometimes you have to do one step, do another and then go back to the steps you’ve already done. This is a process of trying and refining. This process takes time and there’s no magic pill.

Creativity is a top CORE VALUE of mine. I’ve identified 5 of them that I make a deliberate priority in my life (for today’s article I’ll focus on creativity). I’ve consciously built my life around my core values. I don’t try to arbitrarily fit my core values into my life, no I make my core values what I build my life for. My core values are my priorities.

Maybe creativity isn’t a core value of yours yet, but I want to make the case that you should consider incorporating and embracing the creative process into your life for more fulfillment, better problem solving, and more joy. I don’t think we all need to be “artists,” by any stretch of the imagination, but I do believe that embracing our creativity like knowing and living our core values, is a key to life. For me embracing creativity means also embracing process.

If you haven’t yet created a creative space for yourself, I want to encourage you to carve it out. A place where you can leave your creative tools out for a day if need be when you are working on a project. Even if you can’t devote a whole room to your creativity, maybe you can carve out a shelf or a dresser drawer or a corner of a garage. I want to encourage you to comment below and let us know your “must have’s” in your creative space and if you feel called share a picture of your creative space too.

Tony Robbins famously says “ People will do more to avoid pain than they will to gain pleasure”. If you’re thinking of leaving a job, a relationship, a situation, a habit that isn’t suiting you to try something new and foreign, I can guarantee that you will never actually feel ready. When you sit in the place of knowing you need to leave but not leaving or knowing you need to take a risk and not leaping you are sitting in the seat of actively working to avoid pain instead of actively working to grant yourself pleasure.