Goal-weaving
Set your future self up to win with current stuff
All November, we’re focusing not only on non-fiction writing prompts but also on your writing output and career.
List out projects on your near-term horizon, then goals/ideas you want to tackle further out on beyond that. Free write a bit today on how they might connect (by theme, genre, creative discipline, subject matter, etc.) to your current and recent work. Is your current work setting you up to work in the areas you want to work in in the future? How might you better set yourself up now for those projects down the road?
Let’s dig into that.
Extremely related to this: a huge part of my jam is to help people get creative wins, especially people from historically marginalized groups because, let’s face it, the starting line is definitely not the same for everyone and neither is the path. I’ve done this work 1:1 with a handful of creative artists each year for a number of years, I’ve formalized this process into The Seen AF Method, a deep-work creative visibility program.
In it, I work with folks to completely map out their existing body of work, bolster the visibility of your current projects, and set up easy little systems for your future projects so they can get as much visibility as possible. We also work together to think deeply about what success looks like to you, what wins would be meaningful for you, and then we open up paths and methods to keep your work continually relevant and visible, and set up an easy framework to dial your visibility up and down when you need it.
Because at the end of the day, visibility is a resource. And, the thing with visibility is that you very likely won’t let yourself have it and sustain it and have a positive experience with it in all the ways you want until you work through your existing beliefs about visibility, about who “gets” to have it and why, and what it means to want it.
There are lots of ways to access that, both in terms of time and type. Learn about the program here to see which option might be for you.
If you have questions about any of it, book a slot on my calendar and let’s talk about it.
And, if you’re thinking you might like to dip a toe into that and get a little bit of support, take a look at The Visibility Lab, my membership space to gain asynchronous coaching support to help boost the visibility of your creative projects + have access to a community of other creative folks. Learn more.