Welcome to 2024! The new year represents the start of a new chapter for most people. A chance to reflect and rethink. Our challenge to you, the creatives serving in the shadows at your churches and ministries is to take some time to set some goals and cast a vision for your personal growth as a creative in 2024. We have put together 6 New Year Resolutions for Creatives to help give you some ideas. But even if you don’t use one of our resolutions we hope you find ways to challenge yourself in 2024.
Pray Over Your Projects
What better place to start than with prayer? It is so easy to just get into the office sit down and start knocking out projects. But what if we were praying over everything we created, what if the heart behind every design, web build, line of code, live stream, video edit, storyboard, and stage design was prayer? How do you think that would impact your work? Instead of just completing tasks let’s keep our relationship with Christ at the center of everything we do.
Learn a New Skill Related to Your Craft
It can be easy to find what works and get in a rhythm (or maybe it’s a rut) and never try new methods, or technologies. Remember when you were first starting out? When you had to YouTube everything you needed to know or had to find an expert friend who could show you, you were learning something new all the time! Let’s find that spirit of learning again, pick a skill that would be helpful or add value to your work that you do not already know, and take some time to master it this year.
Learn a New Creative Skill that is Unrelated to Your Work
Alternatively, it is important to expand your creative mind and learn something that allows you to express your creative vision in a completely out-of-the-norm way. Maybe you build a scrapbook or try your hand at pottery. The important thing is to do something you are NOT good at and just have fun.
Teach Someone a New Skill
Share your knowledge! Maybe you are not an expert in what you do, but there is always someone who could learn something from you and vice versa. You do not need to be a certified expert to take someone under your wing and help them on their creative journey. Pick 1 person you can help and teach this year.
Start and Finish a Personal Passion Project this Year
We all have that one thing we have always wanted to do. Maybe it’s a podcast, recording a song, or hiking AT. Finding a personal passion project that you can start AND complete is a great resolution to have for 2024.
Get a Creative Accountability Partner and Challenge Each Other to Excellence
Find a friend whom you trust and admire both personally and creatively, and agree to share your creative works this year. Share your thoughts, criticism, and encouragement throughout the year, and push each other to be better at what you do. Then at the end of the year, you will be able to look back and see how you helped each other to grow.
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