How To Be More Creative At Work?

Hi, folks. How are you today? I want to ask you a question. What if you could have more fun at work and make more money? What if you could serve unselfishly and profit? My name is Nick the poet, and I am a creative coach here at Cadre. And I just wanted to share some. Some things from my work experience. I share a lot about sobriety, about mental health, about, you know, living spiritually and. But I also have a day job. I'm a creative director at a marketing agency, and I've been able to bring some of these principles to the workplace, and I wanted to share them with you and give you some ideas of things that you could potentially bring to your workplace.

And so one is living from an abundance mindset, right. And I think that's something that can really help with our abundance mindset at work, is thinking about what we're grateful for at our job. And so I want to challenge you to write down a gratitude list every day of three to five things that you're grateful for about your job, and maybe you're not happy with your job, and that's understandable. There may be things about it that are really difficult or that you don't enjoy, but I have found that if you want a new job, the best way to get one is to really be grateful for the job that you have and do your absolute best at it.

Right. That's one of the four agreements to do our best, you know, and that's gonna look different on different days. Sometimes we're tired. Sometimes we don't have the energy. But see if you can bring that abundance mindset to the job. Secondly, provide more value in every interaction than you take. And so in this modern economy, I think the more value that we can provide, you know, not only the more joy we get through that service, but I think the more we can profit as well. There's a great book called the Science of getting Rich by a man named Wallace Wattles, and it's not just about getting rich financially.

It's about emotionally, spiritually, in relationships. And so I think the more that we can give, give value than take it, because there really is this abundance out there, and we don't need to have a scarcity mindset about it. We can try to really provide that value and be helpful. And I know I'm a lot happier when I think about providing value, as opposed to what I can take from a given situation, whether it's my job or really anything else. And third, I want to encourage you to follow your bliss within your job.

Now you have tasks probably that need to be done, but you can think of it looking at it through a beginner's eyes and looking for a new experience at your job. And even though you have tasks to complete, you can bring your own style to them. Maybe your own flair, maybe your own just mindset of how you do them. Maybe you can do them with love. Maybe you can do them with enthusiasm. Maybe you can just do them in a different way than you have before. So that's another thing, you know, that that's worth trying.

Fourth thing is the art of asking, right? We need to ask for what we want. And so that could be asking our bosses for a raise. It could be asking a coworker for help with a particular problem. It could be if you're maybe in a freelance or creative endeavor asking for clients. It could be asking your boss for how you could do a better job. It could be asking your employees for how you could do a better job as a manager. But the art of asking questions is huge. And so we're learning to listen. And I just think maybe this one alone could be a massive difference for you.

And a good question to ask is, and what else? So what else? You know, if someone shares, a lot of times it's very surface level at the beginning, but if you ask and what else? The, ah, question. Awe. And what else? You eventually get to really the, the, what they're really thinking and then you can maybe try to help them from there. Another great question to ask is what's the real challenge for you here? Because a lot of people will kind of talk around the problem or almost talk about it in a third person, but this, what's the real challenge here for you?

Kind of brings it to a head and helps them to think of a solution. It can be a good question to ask ourselves as well. So the fifth thing is that you can try to bring creativity and fun to work is doing the opposite. So maybe you ask a coworker to coffee to discuss a problem, even though you would never think of doing that. Or it could be showing up 15 minutes to a meeting that you always get in just in the last second. Maybe it could be showing up 15 minutes late because you've been 15 minutes early for 15 years.

It could be any that might get you in trouble. So maybe don't do that one. But, you know, just think of doing the opposite action and that can add a new, that new look to her job. So I want to encourage you to take 15 minutes and just sit down and write of ways that you can be more creative at work and have more fun, because this is your life and this is something that you have control over. And if you don't like you know, what's happening in your work life, it can be important to figure out ways to change it.

And I believe that really everybody absolutely is creative. And the more that we can flex that creative muscle, the more we're going to be able to really enjoy it and make progress, and we're probably going to have more fun and we're probably going to make more money doing that. So I encourage you to take that action. I also want to encourage you to check out some of my colleagues at cadres amazing recent live streams we have an update on the new 988 national mental Health emergency hotline from Luke Winlett.

We have bringing DEi to life with Doctor David Everett. And we have worried sick with Doctor Carrie Manke. Let's find calm together with Evan Lieberman and the 23rd anniversary of my life altering car accident with Risa Costas. And these are all amazing lives that have come up on the Cadre platform. I encourage you to check them out. There's also seven episodes of the awesome amazing. What other a adjectives can I think of? Apples. Apples came to mind. I don't think that's an adjective, but it's an a word.

There's seven episodes of the catch it on Cadre podcast with host James Ronan. Definitely encourage you to check those out. So that's my update from tonight. I also want to encourage you that I have a five part aspire to inspire series that's coming out. I think we really need to seek inspiration in these trying times, so definitely be looking for that as well. I'm nick the poet. This is Cadre. Have an awesome night. It.