Be the architect of your future
And furnish the rooms of your life with what you love
How easy is it to envision what you want, and what you could create?
For many of us, it’s challenging to tune into future possibilities. We don’t give ourselves permission to desire, to dream, to expand.
Imagine who you would be without limiting yourself in this way. You might see a life filled with meaningful work that leaves a lasting legacy. Relationships that nourish and support you. Or travel to fascinating places to do adventurous things. You've already proven yourself in your field. Your analytical skills, professional expertise, and drive for excellence have earned you recognition. Yet when it comes to creative expression, something feels blocked – as if all that professional competence can't quite bridge the gap to creative fulfilment.
One thing I know for sure: if we’re to create a vision that is a compass for our future, we need to build our imaginative muscle.
This month has transformed how I think about creative vision. I’ve been remembering how as a child I was obsessed with designing houses. I spent hours with a pencil and ruler creating elaborate floor plans of my future home. I felt like I was the architect of my own future, propelling myself forward, away from my familial and social contexts, to envision what was possible.
I’ve also been thinking of the journey of a recent client—a journey that might resonate with you.
Like many of us, Lina felt overwhelmed when it came to creativity, which in her case was finishing the first draft of her novel. As a successful professional juggling work as a tour guide with a senior human resources role in her home city of Amman, she had the project management skills to excel. But creative work seemed to operate by different rules that made her usual strategies ineffective.
Although she’d started the novel, even gaining a distinction in a prestigious Master of Arts writing program, Lina hadn’t been able to carry it through to completion.
She had elaborate vision boards, detailed outlines, and countless notes—much like my childhood self, drawing those meticulous architectural plans. But she felt stuck in the planning phase, her brilliant ideas remaining safely hidden in her journals.
That changed when she learned to reconnect with her creative Essence through our coaching together. Now, just six months later, her life looks remarkably different. Where she once had folders full of unfinished projects, she’s completed the first draft of her novel and is moving onto the second draft. Her morning routine, once filled with anxiety about visibility, now starts with a sacred, hour-long writing session that consistently produces shareable work.
The transformation isn’t just about output. Lina now meets twice monthly with a curated community of fellow creators who provide feedback and accountability. Her professional network has more than doubled, with meaningful connections that span both her corporate and creative worlds. Where she once completed maybe one creative project a year, she's now shipping work quarterly. Most importantly, she’s developed a documented creative practice that ensures three weekly creation sessions and regular sharing of her novel.
When you connect with your true creative Essence, who do you become?
You become someone who doesn’t just create, but who fully embodies their creative identity alongside their professional one. Your analytical skills and business acumen don't compete with your creativity—they enhance it. You bring the same level of excellence to your creative practice that you've already demonstrated in your career, but now with an ease that comes from true alignment.
You become someone who:
completes projects in weeks instead of years, because you’ve learned to move past perfectionism
confidently shares your work with a growing network of supporters and collaborators
takes decisive action on opportunities immediately instead of procrastinating and letting them slip away
maintains clear boundaries around your creative time, treating it as non-negotiable as any other professional commitment
This transformed state isn’t just a dream—it’s something we can methodically build together. Like an architect creating a sound structure, we can assemble the foundation of your creative practice piece by piece: your creative routine, your sharing schedule, your completion timeline, your visibility strategy.
The Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier claimed that ‘architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.’ Your creative practice can be as magnificent—not just planned, but built and inhabited.
I see this transformation every day: professionals moving from endless planning to consistent shipping, from hiding their work to actively seeking opportunities to share it, from sporadic creation to maintaining a clear portfolio of completed projects.
Ready to step into this new way of being? Take the first step today. Not just to plan, but to build the structure of your creative life—one where you’re consistently creating, confidently sharing, and steadily growing both your body of work and your professional impact.
Just as you've invested in your professional development, investing in your creative evolution is a strategic choice that pays dividends across all areas of your life. The return isn't just in creative output—it's in the confidence, clarity, and capability to fully express all aspects of who you are.
When you do this, you don't just illuminate your soul—you illuminate the world with your creations, consistently and powerfully.
Love, Rachel
Hear Lina’s experience in her own words
Here, she reflects on her journey through the ‘Essence process’ we undertook together as part of her coaching, and how it allowed her better to see the fears that hold her back creatively and how she now navigates the world from the perspective of her Essence.
What’s next in your creative journey?
As your guide into creative courage, I’m here to help you transform those invisible blocks—the fear and shame that live beneath the surface—so you can express authentically and freely.
Here’s how I can support you:
Make an appointment for a virtual coffee (free). I hold 3-4 slots every month for a 20-minute chat so we can either get to know each other, or reconnect. This is for everyone! Perfect if you’re curious about meeting new people and making, or deepening, connections.
Book a 30-minute Creative Breakthrough call (free) to gently uncover the exact fear or limiting belief sabotaging your creative expression so you can finally share your work with confidence
Read my manifesto for creative courage (free). Follow my story in serial form about the core principles of my creativity, my journey into creative courage and why I founded Wordplay Coaching.
There are two options for working with me.
You can join the Creative Courage Circle, a community whose members are committed to authentic expression. It’s an ongoing group that supports writers, artists, creators and entrepreneurs to recognise their creative blocks, then embrace the value of their voice and witness the Creative Essence—the unique light—in others.
For those ready for deep transformation, Creative Courage Mentoring pairs private 1:1 Creative Essence work with full membership of the Creative Courage Circle—transforming the core fears and patterns that have kept you stuck into fuel for your most authentic creative expression.
If you want to explore further how we can do some powerful work together, here’s where you can book a 30 minute, no-strings Creative Breakthrough call.
Reading you took me back to my childhood! I used to love drawing floor plans too!! Such a joy!!! thank you 😍