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

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

As a professional photographer and entrepreneur, Chase Jarvis understands the value of creative identity and how creativity can be used to evolve and positively impact a person’s life and career. In Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life, Jarvis looks at how creative exploration can help cultivate a deep sense of self-awareness and purpose. He examines the entire creative process - from the vision seed to the pursuit and completion of ideas.

Throughout the book, Jarvis emphasizes the importance of a daily creative practice and encourages readers to find what works best for them. He also explores how to develop a positive relationship with yourself and your creativity to create more meaningful work. Jarvis argues that a daily creative practice will help you to acquire a deeper understanding of yourself, enabling you to more fully and authentically express who you are and what you have to offer not only to those around you but to the world.

In Creative Calling, Jarvis stresses the impact that daily creative practice can have on success. As Jarvis suggests, consistency and commitment play a major role in creative success and understanding the creative process is important when starting off. In order to encourage consistency, he suggests setting aside time every day to practice, even if it is just a few minutes. He also emphasizes the importance of creating dialogue around ideas, collaborating to improve upon concepts and problem-solving to find creative solutions.

In the book, Jarvis encourages readers to recognize when the creative process is not working and to embrace the power of failure. He emphasizes that failure helps us to learn, understand and develop, and should not be seen as something to avoid. Similarly, Jarvis explores the idea of having a ‘bigger Why’ as motivation for your creative practice and highlights the need to remain curious and keep asking questions.

Finally, Jarvis examines the importance of rest and recovery in order to maintain a healthy work-life balance. He encourages readers to listen to their body in order to understand what is necessary for them and emphasizes the need for taking breaks and refueling to stay on the creative path.

Overall, Creative Calling is an uplifting and empowering book that provides valuable insight into the complexities of the creative process. By exploring the relationship between daily practice and success, Jarvis helps readers to understand the importance of cultivating a creative identity, developing a positive relationship with yourself and finding a meaningful purpose. With his practical advice, readers of Creative Calling will be well-equipped to infuse their world with meaning and succeed in work + life.