Creative Calling Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life

My last book was called creative calling.

He's also the author of multiple books, including Creative Calling and most recently, Never Play It Safe.

The key here, Chase says, is community building...community will help you market, it'll help you promote because you'll have fans that'll help you with that, also you need to contribute to the community in which your work lives.

Chase's book is Creative Calling, you can hear his episode on the show a couple of weeks ago as well, I'm a link it in the show notes.

And the real point of that is that this happens to us all the time we sometimes take the path that we're supposed to take. And sometimes we continue to ignore it. And these wake up calls will just continue to happen.

The things we do in small daily ways. You creating the show, the meal you made for your family last night, the business that you're building, filling the blank, whatever you're doing that is creative.

And the same is true with the pot and this experiment as with life you start to experiment in lightweight ways remember go back to like principle three that I mentioned it's in doing small creative acts and acknowledging them that you ultimately realize that you have agency over your life just creativity to different scale.

If you value money comfort or convenience over creativity you jeopardize all four

I've put the basics in the book you will know what your basics are when you start to be able to look at yourself in this sort of framework and you can either think of that as scary because oh man you never actually I mean even when you've mastered it you haven't mastered it because you can still wobble I think that's beautiful you know we are imperfect and we can continue to bring ourselves back to who we are

He said look there's a few bad ideas or ideas that aren't really true, one of these is that good work speaks for itself.

The key here Chase says is community building and this is from his book Creative Calling, community will help you market it'll help you promote because you'll have fans that'll help you with that.

Also you need to contribute to the community in which your work lives.

You've got to be the fan you wish you had for your own work to other people for their work.

The people who do find success are constantly and consistently adding value to the communities in which they launch things so if something falls flat it's not just a failure of marketing and promotion, it's a failure of community.

And the real point of that is that this happens to us all the time we sometimes take the path that we're supposed to take. And sometimes we continue to ignore it. And these wake up calls will just continue to happen.

The things we do in small daily ways. You creating the show, the meal you made for your family last night, the business that you're building, filling the blank, whatever you're doing that is creative.

The reality is that we are programmed in our culture to ignore a lot of the things that we know inside to be true.

I think it's the riskiest thing that you could do to play it safe doing someone else's life.

And the same as true. Like it's not about me skiing in Alaska with action sports athletes and helicopters. Like right now whoever's listening, you might be at home in your underwear and Ohio saying like, you know what? I'm not actually falling that thing that I know to be true in myself.

The key here Chase says is community building...community will help you market it'll help you promote because you'll have fans that'll help you with that also you need to contribute to the community in which your work lives.

His latest book, Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life, is out this week.

And the real point of that is that this happens to us all the time we sometimes take the path that we're supposed to take. And sometimes we continue to ignore it. And these wake up calls will just continue to happen.

And there's a lot of ambition in the book, but the moves are actually really simple.

The principles of the book are really simple. There's three of them. One is that everyone is creative. No questions asked is part of our DNA.

The world is always going to have a list of sheds for us and we're always going to go a little bit off track.