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🌟 Feeling Stuck? Learn How AI Can Help Ignite Your Creative Spark! 🌟

Published about 15 hours ago • 1 min read

Creativity Chronicles​
Unlocking Creative Joy, One Week at a Time

Over 50 and
Ready for Something New?

Hi Reader,

Does this sound familiar?

  • You’re bored with the same old routines.
  • Retirement feels less like freedom and more like a waiting game.
  • You’re itching to create, connect, or explore, but you don’t know where to start.

If so, you’re not alone—and I’m here to help.

🎥 Here’s a quick story about how used AI to refine my mission so I'm ready to meet these challenges.​
One way that I play creatively is to use AI as my creative thought partner. This video explains how I used ChatGPT to clarify my purpose and sort out how I solve real problems.

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🚀 I'm on a mission!​
After some back-and-forth refinement conversations with ChatGPT, I arrived at a mission statement that will help me serve you better:
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​‘Igniting joyous creative freedom for people over 50 by blending AI and play to inspire connection, self-expression, and living a deeply fulfilling life.’

Sounds good to me. How does it sound to you?

I made this mission statement more "tangible" for myself by creating this graphic in Canva:

Then, to make it clearer, I refined it further as shown below.

🖋️ How can I help?

Sometimes, life can feel stuck or uninspiring. Here are some of the ways, I help people over 50 rediscover their spark:

  • Show you how to use AI as a fun, creative tool (it’s easier than you think!).
  • Help you reconnect with your creativity through simple, playful practices.
  • Empower you to feel more connected, expressive, and excited about life through an accountable, supportive Creativity Sandbox Community.

I even hand-lettered the simpler version of this message—because that’s the kind of personal touch I enjoy:

💡 Want to learn more about how AI can help you?

✨ Grab my FREE guide: Top 3 Ways AI Can Enhance Your Creativity. It’s packed with quick tips to help you start your AI journey and have fun along the way! Click here to get it now.

👉 Stay tuned for my upcoming free virtual event:
"Creativity 2.0."
It's coming soon!

To your creative freedom,

Jon Leland, AI Creativity Over 50 Guy
​"Don't die with your creative sparks still stuck inside."

113 Cherry St #92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2205
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Creativity Evangelist, Video & AI Marketing Expert

Jon Leland, media pioneer, creative director

I founded the Creativity Sandbox Community to help people not die with their creative sparks still stuck inside. The proven-to-be-successful Creativity Sandbox Framework combines the creative chutzpah of pure play, the accountability & support that comes from participation in our community, and the power of putting in the reps by practicing a practice. I am also a passionate advocate for showing your face through using video in all forms and in leveraging the astounding power of AI as a creativity enhancer, always with the Human in the Loop.

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