As publisher of Ownit magazine, I guess you could say that I am creative, right? Well, let me tell you I never took this remotely seriously until I was pregnant with my second child. I was 37 years old and had a great freelance assignment in marketing communication, serving clients with solutions to promote their business or products.
It felt like I was struck by lightning. Maybe it was the hormones or some innate force in me that gave me the courage to trust. I trusted my insights and ideas and gave room for creativity. I was willing to take the risk of failing, maybe for the first time in my life, and that opened a well of creativity in me. I couldn't be bothered with making mistakes, I got the chance to give birth to ideas, and I walked on air. While before I was a kind of control freak, prevailing to make mistakes. Everything I had learned over the past years manifested themselves in those eight months I was assigned to this company, and they praised my creativity and quality.