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

by Chase Jarvis

You get to choose the tribe you will lead. Through your actions as a leader, you attract a tribe that wants to follow you. —SETH GODIN

We’re always looking for an opportunity to hand the keys over to someone else. That’s a one-way ticket back to where you started. You’re walking your own path now. You can’t escape doing the work and managing your career, deciding where you want to go and then going there.

Make your own mentor. Read, listen, and learn—the resources are limitless. Then, be of service, add value, and forge connections with the people you admire. Instead of putting all your faith in a person you haven’t even met, create a web of advice and advisers that will bolster you for years to come.

Enthusiasm is more powerful—and ultimately more valuable—than confidence.

When you create, you’re not just creating art or a product or a business, you’re creating possibilities.

Creativity is a critical human function.

Without acknowledging and exercising our creativity in small, consistent ways, we’re undermining our natural capacity to Imagine, Design, Execute, and Amplify the life we’re meant to be living.