Cre8or • \krē-ˈā-tər \ • noun
A person or thing that brings (something) new into existence. 👋 Welcome to the 692 Cre8ors who are reading this newsletter.

🧠 This weeks big idea is…

Keep Dreaming, Keep Going.

This week’s op-ed is written by Cre8or's community founding member @nature7b.

⏱️Time to read: 5 minutes

There are many failures, heartbreaks, and mistakes in my story, and a diagnosis of lifelong ADHD, later in life, but I want to make dreaming and goals a central point. I think it’s important to know what we want, and we must create goals. It’s the start point in anything we create!

I’ll focus on the more positive side of my story.

Art was the only exam I passed at school. Two years to create 12 pieces and I did them in the final 2 weeks. My life has played out in the same way, high energy, frenzied binging, with a racing mind! I rarely thought about art after that, and my only dream was to travel and leave the poor town where I grew up.

I had dreams of visiting Italy and France. I wanted to see the Alps, and Alaska, I wanted to sail the seas. But I ‘forgot’ about those dreams.

I worked factory jobs. They felt like an extension of school. I felt trapped. I went to join the army at 16 and failed for the job I was going for but was offered a place in the infantry. A big relief when I turned them down, as I was realizing that freedom was a big goal for me.

A last-minute decision took me to the coast for a weekend, and I stayed for nearly 3 years, working hard, playing football, drinking and partying. I had escaped, but circumstances took me home again.

I’ve always made big decisions on a whim and followed feelings over my head. Another chance moment took me to London, to work in a posh hotel, in the days before mobiles and the internet.

4 years later I was back home, jobbing around, when I saw an ad for a cruise ship job. The next day I travelled 250 miles for a f2f interview and 2 weeks later I was in Miami for a 3-day induction. And my first tour… Alaska! I’d forgotten my dream, but when I reached it, I realized I’d dreamed, worked hard, and wanted it enough. I think people get ‘lucky’, this way!

On and off, London has been a home for over 20 years. When I was 30, I fell in love (again) and had the opportunity to live in France. I took it! Leaving my well-paid job to live in a small village in Provence, where picking grapes was my first job. I loved it, and the life! I also lived in the Alps for 6 months.

I’ve so many stories within stories that I’ll hopefully share going forward, including being responsible for a UK Prime Minister at one point. That wasn’t a goal, but getting to the top was, and my ego was high.

That changed when I created another goal to become a therapist. Mainly to help myself with my many issues, and because a huge coincidence completely changed my life and made me question everything… and I subsequently created new goals around caring for myself and others.

I’ve been searching for meaning and purpose for many years, but even helping others wasn’t quite doing it for me. I’ve always been creative but never thought about being an artist. It was pretentious where I was from, but I knew something was missing, something for me!

I was in my forties when I knew I wanted to be an artist. I believe all of us are creators and should express ourselves in whatever way we feel. I made becoming an artist a goal!

I was bored on a beach holiday so started balancing rocks and became insanely hooked. When I returned, I quit my job and spent all the money I’d saved for a mortgage, on pursuing my new dream. My partner wasn’t happy (needless to say!).

My goal wasn’t to make money (or profit), it was having an IRL gallery owner say to me, ‘Yes, I want your work on my wall!’ This happened with the 9th gallery I pitched. And they wanted 25 pieces, exclusively for one month. OMG! I’d made it! I could officially call myself an artist! My Twitter PFP is me, smiling in the gallery.

I made a goal to do another collection, but lack of funds, lockdown, and a personal trauma, hit me hard. My partner of 10 years nearly died and was in ICU for 2 weeks. I was told by the paramedics, ‘it’s not looking good’. The next 5 days were the most traumatic of my life. I was unable to visit (lockdown) and had very limited information.

The doctors said it was a miracle she survived and I’m happy to say she’s back to full health. But it made both of us reach important decisions in our lives.

I uprooted my life again and it’s been an incredible year, with no responsibilities, zero clock-time, and in a conscious trance, which was the goal of 5 years. The creativity came flooding out, with 12 new NFT collections that I never imagined creating and 5 more planned for the next 2 years. And I nearly gave up!

Web 3 has changed my life, setting it on a new direction, and has created another chapter! Beginning with crypto, and the last 2 years with NFTs. First, minting my rock balancing art, then collecting over 500 NFTs from over 150 artists, my new collections, and much more.

I’ve been a lone wolf in Web3 but made a goal to become more social! Thanks, in large to Chill Pill and the amazing community he’s put together, and the NFT community in general, I feel I’ve come home; I feel I’m with family, with people like me, Degens and Cre8ives!

So, dream, create goals, and always keep going! I came from poor, humble beginnings. ‘Society’ didn’t give me a chance. I made many mistakes and will continue to do so. I had 9 careers before I found my 2nd passion, and passion is a big key to happiness! It doesn’t matter your age or circumstances. Create and follow your dreams, and don’t be afraid to dream big! Create for you! Accept you’ll fail, but keep getting up, learn, truly believe and have faith, and you’ll be ok. And when problems arise, don’t dwell or complain, search for solutions, and the world will be yours. Keep dreaming. Keep going!

🗞 In The News

$PEPE season is still upon us! Binance announced they will be listing it

In the light of those news, Pepe enters the top 40 Cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap:

Fed increases rates a quarter point and signals a potential end to hikes

Blur introduces Blend. which is an NFT Lending protocol aiming to unlock liquidity for NFTs

@SuiNetwork launches mainnet

Phantom wallet goes multichain

Lebron James spotted wearing RTFKT AF1's

Influencer scams followers by pushing a scam memecoin on them

📊 Quick Question

📌 Major milestones

Another week, another Divine Ancestral Pendant NFT Leaderboard update! Many new names in the top 10 rankings this week. Congratulations Cre8ors!

Find the full Leaderboard here:

https://www.cre8ors.com/leaderboard

Keep an eye at the Zeal quest board, something big is coming soon 🧬

This week has been a big one for our Twitter spaces!

Shoutout to @SuperSpacesAI for building the token of appreciation protocol(TOAP) and giving us early access.

This week, we dropped the first Chill Pill TOAP and claimable by everyone who has attended at least 8 of the Cre8ors 🧬 spaces!

Oh, one last thing.

Notifications ON for Cre8ors 🔔

🗣 Shoutouts

We could not be any more proud of how talented our community is!

Time to shout out the best community content for this week!

First of all, we would like to shout out @Largebagofchips for this absolutely amazing video! Check it out:

We absolutely loved this tweet by @tinochchan. Proud to have you as one of our Founder Members!

We love seeing community made gifs and videos! Thank you@MintDirt @BattleaxeNFT and @livinether!

Our discord is a place full of creativity! Keep adding color to the world Cre8ors! 🧬

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👟 Next-steps

Things will be changing up soon. But there is one thing that will never change.

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So get stacking!

Earn 3 Divine Ancestral Pendant NFTs by:

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We believe in collaboration, so let’s show the world what we can can do 🧬

PS: The password is “dawn”.

Until next time,

the Cre8or