How To Be Creative & Be Happy – The Importance Of Connecting With Others

Although we sometimes feel far from happy or creative, we actually all have within us the resources we need to lead a life of creativity and happiness.

We’ve experienced and glimpsed enough of both being creative and being happy to know what we love and want more of, and what we don’t love and need less of.

The difficult is in cutting through all the surface static and listening to the source of that deeper knowledge.

Each of us are unique creative people, so we each have a different recipe for a creative and happy life.

However, there are some basic ingredients common to everyone’s recipe.

Today we’re going to focus on one of the most important.

Connecting with others is essential for a life of creativity and happiness.

So what do we mean by “connecting with others”?

Living a solitary, isolated life works for some people.

But for the majority of us, however creative we may be in this isolated existence, we won’t be very happy for long.

As human beings we naturally crave interaction and connection. And as CREATIVE human beings, this takes on another level.

The fundamental purpose of creating anything at all, for most of us, is to reach out and connect with others in some way.

It’s our language, our way to express ourselves and to communicate with the world.

Our art, the work we create, is our unique and highly precious medium for connecting and communicating.

The other way we connect to the world as creative people is when we’re communicating ABOUT our love of creating.

So, as creative people, we have two main channels for connecting with others:

Our creative experiences and love of creating, and our creative work itself.

With each of these, we can communicate directly or indirectly with the world. Here’s how:

Connecting directly:

With our art we can read our poetry at open mic events, have public open days for our beautiful gardens, play our music at bars and clubs. All of these are ways of directly sharing our creative work with others.

To share our creative experiences and our love of creativity, we can join clubs, groups and societies and participate in online forums and collectives. Again, direct ways of communicating and connecting with others.

Connecting indirectly:

We create our art and put it out there, whether it’s getting our CD in a music store, our garments in a clothes shop or our short stories in a magazine. Hopefully people enjoy and appreciate our art and if we’re fortunate we’ll hear back in some way about this.

To share our love of creativity indirectly we may read an article or book on creativity, listen to a CD of a favourite artist or visit a gallery. Or we might write our own books or articles on creativity.

Connecting with others is such a fundamental part of our lives as creative people

Without it, without getting our creative voice heard, without communicating passionately through our creative work, our lives feel hollow, empty, sad and incomplete.

So what are you going to do TODAY to connect with others?

Start right now and list all the ways you currently connect with others in your creative life.

Then make another list of all the new ways you can try, and pick 3 that you’ll commit to doing in the next 7 days...

By connecting with others - through your creative work, and about your love of creating - you’ll be providing yourself with one of the essential ingredients for a creative and happy life.

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