Unleash Your Creativity - How Rewarding Your Creative Achievements Can Help You Be More Creative

There are no shortage of techniques and tips available to help you unleash your creativity and tap into your vast reserve of creative talents and abilities.

But why don’t we make more use of them? What often happens is we discover lots of different techniques at once, start to put them all into action, then get confused as to which techniques are actually helping us and which aren’t.

So the natural reaction is to back out, and give up on all of them.

Sometimes we don’t even get this far, and find we’re so overwhelmed by choice, that in trying to select the one “perfect” technique to increase creativity, we just freeze up and choose none of them.

Here is just one powerful technique you can put to use right away to help you be more creative.

Used consistently this technique can increase your creativity dramatically. The key is to try it out, experiment and adjust and see how you can make it work best for you. Once you find effective combinations and routines, keep using them and watch your creativity flourish.

Rewarding your creative achievements can help you be more creative.

We nearly always find it easier to acknowledge and give praise to the creative achievements of other people, and stand in awe at what people accomplish in their creative lives.

How many times have you found yourself thinking “Wow, I wish I could be as creative as they are...”?

When it comes to our own creative achievements though, most of us suddenly developed an acute blindness to the bare reality.

How creative would you say you are, compared to other people?

It’s highly likely you’ll think straight away - “less creative”.

First of all, it’s dangerous to compare ourselves to others. We are all talented and creative in our own unique ways and trying to emulate others can often end in setting totally unrealistic aims and inevitable disappointment and frustration.

Beyond that, there are two simple steps to rewarding our creative achievements:

1. Acknowledge what you’ve achieved and continue to achieve. Again this is about you and your creative life. Make a list of everything creative you’ve done in the last week, then month, year and so on.

Once you get going, you’ll realise you’ve created a lot more than you realised. And don’t dismiss any smaller creative work and acts as insignificant or unimportant.

Even the daily routine tasks we can inject a little more creativity into, and by noticing our creativity more, it’s easier to build upon it and create more easily, more often.

2. Reward your creative achievements. This can serve both as a natural extension of acknowledging what you’ve created and saying “well done” to yourself, and as a motivation for increasing your creativity even more.

For example you might at the end of each week or month, review what you’ve done during that time, and reward yourself with something that you genuinely enjoy and appreciate.

Or you could set yourself future treats and rewards, like when you reach a certain number of chapters written in your book you’ll treat yourself to lunch at a favourite café or restaurant to celebrate.

Acknowledging and rewarding your creative achievements is a powerful way of helping you increase your creativity.

By getting into regular habits of noticing how creative you actually are instead of comparing yourself unfavourably against other people, you’ll soon find your creativity increases, feels “closer to the surface” of your awareness and flows more easily.

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