You’ve just stepped into a confession booth, but don’t worry: I’m not a priest, and you don’t have to share your sins with me.

This is a different kind of confession.

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I want to know your deepest fears and greatest hopes as a writer, artist, musician, leader, designer, or other creative role.

What’s your deep fear?

What’s your great hope?

At this point you might be thinking, Why do you care, Chad?

I care because we creative people don’t often get to the heart of what scares us and what motivates us.

I don’t think we’re consciously avoiding it. We’re just busy doing our thing, and that’s okay. But every once in a while it’s healthy to stop—to name our truth. The survey I link to below is an opportunity to do that.

Your responses will be completely anonymous. I have no way of tracking who you are or what you said, so you can be as raw and honest as you want.

I will wait for a good number of responses and then share quotes from what I heard.

Will you do this with me? (Yes, I’ll be taking the survey too.)

Click here to take the survey.