A Book For Creatives… and Everyone

Creative Calling….

Writing book blogs (when it’s a book I feel especially close to) has actually proven to be quite challenging!

It’s almost as though I don’t want to say too much, because I want you to hear all of the magic straight from the artists themselves, but I also want to share every highlighted line, every take away and all of my realizations from the book as well!

So.

I’m going to try to keep this one simple.

But this is one of the books SO near and dear to my heart.

Chase Jarvis has led an incredibly fascinating life, one I believe we can all relate to in different ways.

He planned to take the medical profession route after college

Then entertained the pro sports route

And then eventually went on to give his passion (that at the time, had no idea was one of his passions) the opportunity, to become his career.

And I will say. This book is NOT just about “ditch your corporate job and be an artist”

My take away was more, “this life is a creation. Therefore, we are creative. We are creators”

All day we are being presented the choice to create. And we are either ignoring, or answering that creative calling.

One of my favorite lines in this book is “if you want to be the noun, do the verb”

Oof. That hit hard for me.

The term “creative” is not solely reserved for the master sculptors, best selling authors, and award winning musicians.

The term creative, is for the human.

If you want to be a writer. Write.

If you want to be a musician. Play.

If you want to be a dancer. Dance.

Maybe cooking a beautiful meal fuels all the creative juices in you.

Maybe organizing a room is a creative endeavor.

If you want to be it, do it.

The human, limited mind.... is what made “fame and success,” the way we measure creativity.

The creative calling doesn’t really have anything to do with the fame or success.

It is a remembering.

A coming back.

A listening to an intuitive tug.

A contribution to the world.

You may work a corporate job, and be saying “this book has literally nothing to do with me”

Or you may have that same testament as a mother, raising children.

Or a student in grad school.

But that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Creative Calling is asking us to respond to the calling of this life.

To live on purpose.

With purpose.

This book is deeply inspiring, and powerfully relatable.

It will make you feel seen, and challenge you, at the same time.

This book is for everyone, at every age.

And after reading it twice myself, and gifting it to many friends, I highly suggest you read, and drink up every last drop of it, as well!

Let me know what you think about it, by responding to this email!

Xx

Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the book:

This one, Chase is talking about one of the five types of creators (this was by far one my favorite chapters of the book)

“Starters can put years, even decades, of work into a creative practice and come away with nothing concrete, nothing done. Worse, all those unfinished projects linger in their minds, taking up creative bandwidth. Over time, many of the “new” ideas start to look like variations on the old ones, though usually this is more obvious to everyone else than it is to the struggling Starter, who is constantly reinventing the wheel instead of, you know, rolling anywhere. In this endless chase of the new, things start to get old.”

“Your life has two big arcs. The first is about acquisition; acquiring knowledge about yourself and the world—figuring out how to meet your own needs. What am I going to do to make a living? Will I get married? Buy a house? Have kids? The second arc is about contribution. You start thinking about how you can serve others and make a lasting impression on the world. We take, and then we give”

“Turning an idea in your head into a tangible reality is one of life’s great satisfactions, whether the end result is a story, a photograph, a meal, or a business”

“Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success”

Let me know if you end up reading this book and what your takeaways are!