10 Reasons Your Current Job is Creative. Really!

In a couple hours, I will don my costume for the day. I call it 'business casual.'

I will sport a professional, corporate look.

I shall spend the morning and afternoon teaching sales methodology, basic manners, paperwork procedures, and a few 'closing' techniques.

Ladies and gentlemen: I am a corporate sales trainer.

Yet, I still consider myself a creative. Are you in the same boat? You're waiting tables at the diner. You're answering phone calls in a cubicle. You're picking up endless messes from the kiddos.

We are all creative.

Today, our jobs are creative because like every prolific artist:

1. We will influence the way people see something.
2. We will share joy.
3. We will connect rather than just exist. 
4. We will employ our mediums, whatever they may be, to communicate our ideas.
5. We will think as creatives think.
6. We will bring life to our workplace.
7. We will entertain.
8. We will believe that our work is good.
9. We will help.
10. We will contribute.

Time to put on that costume now, and I'm thankful. Thankful that it's my choice to see this day as an artist does.

How do we, as creatives, change our thinking to make our jobs more than a mere paycheck-generator?

Would love to hear your tips below in the comments!

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This post brought to you by Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job and Your Dream Job. Jon Acuff (read his blog here) put to words what I've only felt and thought for many years. I highly recommend it.