Unleash Your Creativity - How Listening To Yourself Can Help You Be More Creative

There are many ways we can increase our creativity using simple techniques. Often we get caught up in trying to do too many new things at once, get overwhelmed and stop completely.

Or, worse still, we get overloaded by the many options before we even begin and become paralysed and unable to make the “perfect choice” or use the “ideal technique” for us to increase our creativity.

So here’s one great way you can use to help you be more creative today.

Read through, take it on board, try it out a few times and see what it does for you.

Then experiment, adjust and have fun with it until you find the way that works best for you.

Listening to yourself can help you be more creative.

So what does this mean, listen to yourself?

You may feel you’ve heard all you have to say to yourself about your creativity. Maybe you find most of it often comes out as pretty negative and unconstructive comments.

But have you truly LISTENED to your creative self?

Have you ever asked yourself what you really want to be creating? What the big creative project that’s burning like an inferno inside you is? The one that’s just desperate to burst into the world in a blaze of passion and set light to everything in its path?

It doesn’t have to be a huge, complex, multi-layered piece of work.

It could be that though your creativity has traditionally been expressed in the form of stories, for years you’ve been longing to paint a self-portrait.

Or maybe you’re a fashion designer who’s desperate to learn how to dance salsa?

Many of us never stop for long enough to listen to what we want to create.

Ironically we’re often so busy creating the things we’re not actually all that passionate about, we don’t take the time, and find the stillness, to truly listen to – and actually hear – what out true creative passions and ambitions are.

So, to help YOU truly listen to yourself, try this exercise.

Find ten minutes (at least) to yourself where you’ll be undisturbed, grab a pen and paper and answer honestly these questions:

1. What would I create if no-one else ever saw it or found out about it?

2. What would I create if I was completely detached from judgement or criticism of what I created?

3. What would I create if I had just one day left to live?

These 3 questions are a great kickstart to get your thoughts flowing around what you truly want to create.

There’s no substitute for the motivation we get when we know we’re creating the projects most valuable to us, the things we’ve always wanted to create.

Take the short time it takes to answer the questions, and notice how significant an impact it has on your creativity.

Take this exercise on to another level by coming up with your own questions. What are the most powerful questions someone could ask you about your creativity and what you truly want to create? Go ahead and ask them yourself.

This is just one of many ways you can begin to unleash your creativity. Try it today and see the effect it has on your creative life.

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