I am presenting this adventure post because I am participating in #Quest2015 hosted by Jeffrey Davis at Tracking Wonder. You may still leap in if you would like (and I strongly advise you to do so.)
The prompt from Visionary Todd Henry kicked me in my gut when I first read it.
"If you knew that your life’s story will be written based upon your choices and actions in 2015, how will you live?"
The tiniest sliver about our visionary from his twitter account - Todd Henry is the Founder @beAccidental, arms dealer for the creative revolution, thought follower, obsessive notebook purchaser, author of The Accidental Creative & Die Empty. Follow him on twitter @toddhenry
I knew it wouldn't be a speedy write. Enter a busy end of December into the mix and I was more than the tiniest bit bummed I couldn't get to the keyboard and just finish something sooner, darnit, pr with more complexity and more depth and more oooohing and ahhhing from readers and yes, that is just how life is sometimes.
I started and stopped writing this blog post three times. I just couldn’t seem to fall into a writing groove which for me feels strange. Writing grooves and I usually very close friends.
As soon as I read Todd Henry’s prompt I knew I was going to… not struggle, not try hard. I knew I was going to be ready to be true to the response rather than report the response from a distance.
What questions will I live?
What are my top three priorities today to be as effective as possible in my creative life artist work?
What in my home/family life needs my attention so that I may reach my top three priorities today?
What am I willing to do to bring these questions consistently into focus as a spiritual creative life artist work practice?
These are right on questions and a great way to start my journey to discovery, but when I sat at my kitchen table to create, a dear old friend came to play and I suddenly remembered she was not just a friend - she was me.
See? My discovery was rather extraordinary with or without a lot of pencil to paper or fingers to the keyboard time.
This character has been a part of my consciousness for at least five years. It wasn't until today I realized completely she is actually me.
She made this appearance in 2010
Then in 2014 she was morphed into a quote/writing prompt -
And then yesterday as I worked on the prompt from Todd Henry, she showed up again and I finally understood.
The receiving dancer is me.
She may be more buxom and smaller waisted than I, but she is me nonetheless. As I was finishing up this blog post, firefox crashed leaving my brilliant conclusion unsaved. I am laughing now because the "before I discovered I was the receiving dancer me" would have probably given up on the posting for a while, perhaps forever, because I didn't feel up to repeating what I lost.
Today, however, I know that this is a part of the process of discovery.
I am, indeed, meant to continue and to hit publish within the next five minutes because I need to be on my way to a workshop I am leaving within ten minutes.
These questions, coupled in action as this new receiving dancer creative life artist, will shape and form my life story as it is lived in 2015. I haven't completed the visionary process yet and I know I will.
Somehow getting this initial phase of thinking out there feels much more significant and I know you will bear with me as I continue to focus upon and ask these questions:
What are my top three priorities today to be as effective as possible in my creative life artist work?
What in my home/family life needs my attention so that I may reach my top three priorities today?
What am I willing to do to bring these questions consistently into focus as a spiritual creative life artist work practice?
So the receiving dancer me started as a doodle, but she actually took form in a selfie from the other night that has gotten lots of positive response via facebook. I was embarrassed by all the attention as a matter of fact and it is only now I am connecting the two of us:
See me dancing?
Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming Fall and Winter, 2014 and beyond. 
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