Scott Perry defines creativity as the instinct to make change happen and purpose as intentional, integrity-driven work. Together they mean deliberately challenging the status quo and acting as a difference maker, shaping a fulfilling second half of life through mindful, deliberate engagement with your work.
Welcome to Creative on Purpose, a show sharing insights and inspiration about the art of encore living. Define the difference only you can make in the second half of life and craft it into a fulfilling endeavor that helps you build identity, forge meaning, and make things better. I'm Scott Perry, Encore Life Coach and Chief Difference Maker at Creative on Purpose. Today is a best of the blog episode. Bite-sized broadcasts that share principles and practices to help you see, step into, stay in, and share your power to make a difference doing work that matters with people you care about. Today we continue the series by answering the question, what does it mean to be creative on purpose? Ready? Let's go. What does it mean to be creative on purpose? Creativity is the act of making change happen. It's an inherent human instinct used to solve interesting, difficult, and even wicked problems. Engaging your creative impulse is how you get from where you are to where you want to be. Purpose is a posture, a way of being. To apply yourself to any task with purpose, for a purpose, and on purpose is to develop excellence while enhancing the lives of others. Purpose isn't inherent in any particular work. It comes from doing the work right in front of you with integrity and intention. To be creative on purpose is to look at the status quo and say, this can be better, and I can do better, and then do what needs to be done. Sure, sometimes beneficial change happens through luck or by accident, but when you lean into your endeavor creative on purpose, you can influence change for the better. Your life, your work, and your life's work are all works in progress. Not the work you have to do, work that you get to do. You get better at these enterprises by engaging with them fully, mindfully, and deliberately. Being creative on purpose allows you to break the status quo and step into possibility with the difference only you can make. To be creative on purpose is to be a difference maker. What difference are you ready to make? Are you ready to be creative on purpose? Thanks for tuning in. We appreciate you lending us your valuable time and attention and hope today's broadcast motivates you to take a bolder step into possibility, developing your potential and living your legacy. To keep go-go going with principles and practices like the ones shared in today's episode, visit creativeonpurpose.com and sign up for our weekly newsletter. If you're watching where you can leave a comment, please share a question, lesson, or takeaway from this conversation. If you're listening to this as a podcast, please leave a 5-star review. Now, take the insight and inspiration from today's show and start flying higher in the difference only you can make. It's time to be creative on purpose.
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