Are you stuck? Have you been stuck for a while now? Well you’re in for a transformative journey where your faith, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit converge. If you’re a Christian creative, author, or entrepreneur feeling called to make a difference but unsure how to turn your passion into purposeful impact and financial stability, you're in the right place. I’m going to help you uncover your divine purpose and create a roadmap to achieving your goals while glorifying God. Here’s how to discover your divine purpose.

Reflect on your spiritual gifts. You’ll begin by exploring your unique spiritual gifts and talents. Ask yourself:

• What are the skills and abilities that come naturally to me?

• How do these gifts align with my Christian faith?

• How can I use these gifts to serve others?

Assess your passions and interests. Identify what you’re passionate about and how it intersects with your faith. Consider:

• What activities or causes energize me the most?

• How do my passions reflect my values and beliefs?

• In what ways can I integrate these passions into my daily life?

Align your purpose with your faith. Understand how your purpose aligns with your Christian values. Reflect on:

• How does my purpose contribute to the greater good?

• How can I use my work to honor God and serve others?

• What does the Bible say about fulfilling your calling?

You know that passion that is burning in your heart is a clue to a fulfilled life. It’s time to turn that passion into impact. Impacting the world around you can be invigorating when you are making a difference. Here’s how to turn passion into impact.

Set purpose driven goals. Create clear actionable goals that align with your divine purpose. Follow these steps:

• Define your short-term and long-term goals.

• Break them down into smaller, manageable tasks.

• Set deadlines and milestones to track your progress.

Develop a strategic plan. Outline a plan to achieve your goals and make an impact. Consider:

• What resources and support do I need?

• How will I measure success?

• Who can I partner with to amplify my impact?

Overcoming Obstacles. Address common challenges and find solutions. Think about:

• What potential obstacles might I face?

• How can I prepare for and overcome these challenges?

• What strategies can I use to stay motivated and focused?

  How would you feel if you could absolutely know your divine purpose? To know why you were born and why you’ve had certain experiences gives clarity to life, love, relationships and especially to your value as a human.

  Here are the takeaways:

  How To Unlock Your Divine Purpose

  1. Reflect on your spiritual gifts

  2. Assess your passions and interests

  3. Align your purpose with your faith

  How To Turn Passion Into Impact

  1. Set purpose-driven goals

  2. Develop a strategic plan

  3. Overcome obstacles

  How To Monetize Your Passion

  1. Identify revenue streams

  2. Build your audience or client base

  3. Use practical tips for sustainable income

  You are now equipped with the tools and insights to unlock your divine purpose and turn your passion into a meaningful impact and sustainable income. This journey is about more than just personal success; it’s about glorifying God and serving others with your unique gifts.

  Thank you so much for listening to the podcast “It’s Time Flourish Now” and if you like what you’re hearing, please leave a raving review and follow me on Instagram and Facebook at ArtistsFlourishNow. If you know someone who could benefit from learning how to align themselves with who God created them to be, please share this episode with them. Be sure to tune in next week and in the meantime… Flourish Now, grow vigorously and thrive!

  
  

Are you wealthy? What does it mean to be wealthy? If you are wealthy, you have an abundance of material possessions or resources, or an ample quantity. Each person defines wealth in dollar amounts to many different degrees of satisfaction.

Besides money, people are considered wealthy due to assets like good health, strong relationships, time freedom, personal purpose and self-investment in skills and education.

So how do we manifest wealth in one or all of these areas of life? Let's take “Time” for instance. I would say that if I am too busy, running ragged and don’t have time to rest, relax and enjoy life, I am very poor. Rather, the ability to choose how to spend my time is considered priceless (or with great wealth).

How do I go from poor to wealthy with the resources of time? I can tell you because I have done just that. Right now I have an abundance of time to choose how to spend it. However, most of my life I was too busy and running ragged. How did I manifest an abundance of time?

Here are three steps to help you manifest wealth in time:

1. I assessed what I was currently spending time on.

2. If what I was spending time on no longer brought me joy, I resigned from it.

3. I planned what I wanted to do with my time that would bring me joy.

The hardest part was resigning from things that no longer brought me joy because I felt I was losing part of my identity. I had hit such a level of burn out, I resigned from the board of the Salvation Army, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, being the speaker at the Christian Women’s Club, being President of the Council of Catholic Women, Teaching Sunday School, a secondary business called Gallery On The Go and ultimately my full time job.

I don’t recommend this to anyone, unless you are in a position of being debt free and can monetarily afford to. I was fortunate enough to be debt free and my husband was still bringing in an income. That being said, it took a while to get used to this new found time freedom. I had to relearn what it was that I liked to do, what I was good at, what I could get paid to do and what the world needed. I found myself swimming in a time wealth pool, and boy was it medicine to my soul.

As you can imagine, personally I was wealthy in time, and poor in money. So I had to ask myself, how do I manifest wealth in money? I wanted to be true to myself, my talents and to God and I didn’t want to lose the time freedom I had earned. I went in search of an opportunity that could provide all my wants and needs but not put me back in a situation that left me no time.

SinceI had done a deep dive of my inner strengths, wants and desires, I was able to clearly define what I wanted, but discerning the opportunities was tough.

Here are three steps to help you manifest wealth in money:

1: Discern whether an opportunity is right for you or not.

2: Be willing to take a certain amount of calculated risk.

3. Have faith and courage to step outside your comfort zone.

Faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see. And courage is the mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, withstand danger, fear or difficulty. First comes faith, then comes courage, then comes wealth.

Have you ever opened a brand new blank white canvas with excitement to paint and then froze? Staring at that canvas as if you weren’t supposed to make a mark on it? I have too. It is such a feeling of frustration, knowing you want to paint something beautiful and yet that blank white canvas illudes you.

I have found a solution to this daunting blank canvas, and it may surprise you. The hardest thing about a blank canvas is thinking the end result has to be perfect. This is what causes the freeze to begin with. There is a certain amount of fear that no matter what you do next, it just won’t be perfect, stopping you in your tracks from taking the first step.

The solution is to grab a black sharpie marker to get the ugly out. You do this by what I call mark making. Mark making is simply taking your sharpie marker and drawing random lines, squiggles and boxes all over your blank white canvas. I even go as far as coloring in an area completely black. The great thing about this step is that it automatically gives the painting depth of value by applying the darkest color. It also gets rid of the fear of ruining the canvas and lets you start moving forward to a beautiful masterpiece.

Once you’ve laid the ground work with your black sharpie marker, you are ready to start the layering process of neutrals. I am a big fan of acrylic paint because it makes layering so quick and easy. It is very forgiving of mistakes because you can simply paint over mistakes with ease.

The layering process starts with a values study. If you are working with a reference photo, squinting your eyes is helpful to see all the shades of grey in the image. You may want to mix just three values of grey and start with. The key is to make sure all the values are slightly different from each other. The way you can tell if you have done a good job in your value study is by taking a black and white photo of your canvas. This reveals the depth of layers you’ve achieved. If your painting looks flat, then go back in and rework some of the greys, or perhaps go down to just three grey tones.

Lastly, it’s time to add color. This too is a layering process using the color wheel. Let’s say you are going to paint three stacked pumpkins. One pumpkin is orange. One pumpkin is yellow, and one pumpkin is green. Instead of painting the pumpkins their true color right away, take the color wheel and find the complimentary color. For example, the complimentary color of orange is teal. The complimentary color of yellow is violet and the complimentary color of green is red.

Even though you are going to want to paint the pumpkins their true color, instead first paint them their complimentary color. This puts a layer of paint down that when you paint over it and leave a little here and there it creates a beautiful harmonized dimension you would not otherwise achieve. It makes the painting rich with both depth and color.

Finally, it’s time to put the finishing touches on the painting. Paint the true colors of the pumpkins on top of their complimentary colors. Paint orange on top of teal (leaving a little peek-a-boo of teal). Paint yellow on top of the violet and green over the top of red. Then, go back to your complimentary colors and do some random mark making on top of the true colors. Such as a partial line running down the crease of the pumpkin.

Now stop and take a few steps backward to look at your painting from a different perspective and look at how beautiful your painting is just because you learned how to activate the canvas! I’m proud of you.

Here are three steps to help you activate your canvas:

Step 1: Grab a black sharpie marker and mark up your canvas with lines, squiggles and boxes.

Step 2: Do a value study using three to six grey values and take a black and white photo of the canvas to make sure you have values from very light to very dark.

Step 3: Paint complimentary colors first and layer true colors on top to create depth and beauty.