Creating Deeply: Are You Diving In Oceans Or Just Splashing Around In Streams?

What does it mean to “Create Deeply”?

Anything that we create at all, must come from a certain depth within us, a depth of experience, a depth of feeling, a depth of emotion, a depth of ambition.

And, whether we’re creating because we’re compelled to communicate with others, to discover more about ourselves, or to forge a new pioneering trail in our chosen art forms, there are many different depths we can go to when we tap into our creative source.

So how deeply are you creating in your creative work? Do you mostly feel like your diving in the deepest, most wondrous oceans of your inner creativity? Or just splashing around in the familiar shallow flow of surface streams?

Are you plunging down amongst dark uncharted waters with a strong determined stroke? Or barely treading water?

Here are 5 compelling reasons to take a deep breath, dive in and create more deeply than you’ve ever created before:

1. Create Deeply for your audience.

Whether your audience right now is just you and your cat, or 1,000,000s of devoted fans, each time you produce a new work you have a certain obligation to them to give the best you can, to create the most deep and passionate expression of yourself at that time. If you don’t you’re simply selling them, and yourself, short.

2. Create Deeply for your health and happiness.

Most creative people would agree that when they’re creating regularly and deeply, their level of happiness and well being increases significantly. Just think of your own experiences of the dreaded “Writer’s Block” to see just how painful the opposite state can be. The deeper you go, the more material you’ll find to create from.

3. Create Deeply for your peers and your colleagues.

Even if we feel we create alone, at some point our creative work reaches others who are in a similar creative field. Just as we are inspired or disappointed by the creative people who’s work we follow, we each have our own followers and admirers. When you create deeply, you’re more likely to inspire others to reach in deeply and create their best creative work too.

4. Create Deeply for your own personal creative growth.

However accomplished a writer, singer or photographer you become, if you continue to operate at the same level, creating the same kind of work at the same kind of level, you’re not growing creatively. And in creative terms, if you’re not growing, you’re dying. And in that state, how long can anyone continue to create?

5. Create Deeply for your family, friends and community.

As creative people, when we create deeply and feel we are genuinely giving all we can through our creative work, the sense of pride and contribution is incomparable to anything else in life. And the more we do this, the more interesting, stimulating and happy we become in the company of those close to us. Remember that each of us has a unique creative voice to communicate with the world. It’s up to us how often and how powerfully we make use of it.

Creating Deeply means different things to each of us. But the common factor is that we all KNOW how deeply we’re going when we’re in the midst of creating, we can’t fool ourselves, even if we convince others.

So carefully consider the five reasons above and look at your creative work. Do YOU need to go a little deeper?

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How deeply do YOU create? How much more deeply COULD you create? What stops you from going deeper?

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