Make a Contract For You

How to create a pact for your creative life

Become immaculate. Be honorable. By making your word law, you develop power. - Stuart Wilde.

I have been writing diligently on Medium since March of 2020. However, I began to feel I was not professionally approaching my work.

This is where a contract comes in.

To see me as a writer, I needed to lay down the law on myself. I found the lessons I needed within the book Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power by Stuart Wilde.

I studied this book and wrote about it in some detail last year. I knew I needed to revisit some of the fundamental lessons of this book.

I typed up, printed, and signed a contract with myself yesterday outlining how I will write, take care of my workspace and myself every day.

In establishing my word as law, I set down the ground rules.

My contract states that I will start work at 8:00am, write 1,000 words a day,read 10 articles, keep my desk and office clean, and uphold my promise to become a professional writer.

There was another time I wrote a contract for myself about taking care of my money. It states that I will save a certain amount and give away some money every month.

Ever since then, I have honored that contract.

Here are three lessons from the book to help you establish yourself as a professional creative.

Your Word As Law:

It’s important to establish your word as a law unto yourself and others because that in itself becomes an affirmation of your ever-developing authority over the ego. -Stuart Wilde

To develop trust in myself, keeping my word on my creative contract is paramount. When I show up each day and do my work, I create a law for myself and my creativity.

Out of this discipline, you develop a relationship with the universe.

What you put into something, you will receive. It is the law. By putting in a concerted effort every day as part of a contract with yourself, you establish order within your personal creative world.

Another key is to not make any promises you cannot keep. When you develop your contract, make it simple, precise, and easy to follow through with.

How can you uphold your word as law?

Acceptance:

Start by seeing this place, this earth, this life, as beautiful, and you see yourself as beautiful. Know and trust that all is well with the world. -Stuart Wilde

When you accept yourself and your life within your creative contract, things will flow more easily to you.

When we resist and push against things, we make our lives more difficult.

By accepting everything as it is, you love yourself too. This is another part of your contract.

Write something about your relationship with yourself and what you promise to do each day to uphold that.

Here is an example from my contract:

I am a professional writer who values quality work done on time. I appreciate other writers and their work as well.

Because I love myself and my life, I will show up on time and do my very best work with gratitude and grace.

Thank you, universe, for this opportunity to fulfill my purpose on earth. It is to spread love, light, and understanding to others and help them along the way.

How can you accept yourself with beauty, grace, and understanding?

The Power Rises From Within:

Understand that the power is there, and you can move it. You can project love, healing, and reasonableness. You can stand tall in silence and just move energy around like a lighthouse. -Stuart Wilde

When you work on yourself daily and develop your own energy, you can create the life you want.

Nothing is outside of yourself. It is all within.

Create a contract with yourself and hold to it. In this way, you create more energy, love, and appreciation for life itself. This is the way forward.

Balance your life and yourself with care and appreciation for what you already have.

I can appreciate I have a desk to hold my laptop, coasters for my water and coffee, pens and pencils.

Everything I need to be successful is already here.

Develop quiet and serene confidence for yourself every day. It will carry you to the places you need to be.

How can you develop power within yourself for your creative work?

Takeaways:

Create and sign a contract for your creative work.

Accept and appreciate life as it is.

You have all the resources and power you need right now.

How can you write and uphold a contract with yourself? Please share yours in the comments. I appreciate you for reading this article and for your support!