How To Be Creative & Be Happy – Letting Your Creativity Naturally Evolve

We each have deep within us the knowledge and the resources to build a life of happiness and creativity.

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

The difficulty comes in filtering out the surface noise so we can truly listen to this deeper source of knowledge.

Every one of us is unique in our creativity, so every one of us has a unique recipe for a creative and happy life.

But there are some basic ingredients that are needed for everyone’s recipe.

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

Letting your creativity naturally evolve is essential for a life of creativity and happiness.

What do we mean then by “letting your creativity naturally evolve”?

Many of us are capable of being prolific in our creativity and churning out project after project more efficiently than a factory conveyor belt.

But we’re creative artists aren’t we, not production line automated robots?

If we’re producing the same end product each time, how creative is that, really?

We’ve all heard and witnessed many times over the story of the “One Hit Wonder” in the pop music charts.

They write and release a catchy infectious tune, everyone loves it and it sells in the hundreds of thousands. Fantastic, everyone’s happy.

Then they release their follow up.

Hang on though, this sounds almost EXACTLY like their first song...

By the third single they’ve virtually disappeared off the pop radar, never to be seen or heard again.

So how do we avoid being a One Hit Wonder? Or even worse, a NO Hit Wonder!?

We let our creativity naturally evolve.

Letting our creativity evolve is about experimenting, taking risks, being brave, colouring outside the edges.

It’s also about listening to ourselves and finding what helps us be more confident and bold in our creative experimentation.

Of course we don’t try to reinvent the wheel completely each time in the way we create. Much in the same way we don’t relearn our alphabet from scratch each time we go to write or speak.

Finding consistent methods and techniques that work well for our creativity is brilliant, and to be highly encouraged.

But following the same techniques down to the very last detail, without shaking things up at all, can only lead to producing the same product over and over and again.

And that’s not one of the ingredients of a happy and creative life.

So what are you going to do, from TODAY onwards, to help your creativity naturally evolve?

Start right now by going and creating something different, something brave, something edgy.

Vow to do this every few weeks or so, just to give your creative work some freshness and the chance to develop and evolve in new directions.

By doing this regularly, and letting your creativity naturally evolve, you’ll be giving yourself one of the essential ingredients for a creative and happy life.

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