Hello and welcome to another episode of Working Overtime, the bi-weekly advice focus peeps to

workings Capri's Cream Egg. I'm your host June Thomas and I'm

your other host Ronald Young Jr. So June what are we talking about today?

Well Ronald I want to talk about the importance of finding

your why. There are other names for this why, a personal statement of purpose, a mission

statement, your Icky guy, but what I'm talking about is explicitly naming

your motivation for doing the things you do, whether that's focusing on artistic pursuits or any other kind of project, and using that

information and motivation to help set priorities and decide how you're going to spend your

time.

Do you have this kind of personal mission statement?

I don't really have a personal mission statement,

but I really like to think about my motivation

and most recently it's been like wanting financial independence.

Specifically I want to buy a house.

I've been renting for a very long time and I just want my own little piece of land.

But I also want to be able to, when I think about things I want to do creatively,

I want to be able to foster meaningful conversations about things I think are important.

Like there's a lot of activism, there's a lot of equality and equity and social justice work and I want to be able to have conversations that are kind of feeding into those and helping to bolster those narratives and I'd like to weave that into my creative work as well.

I don't want things to be like kind of like a direct metaphor all the time,

but I'd like to tell stories that kind of allow you

to unpack a larger lesson.

So that's all kind of what motivates me

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