Be More Creative - How Often Are You REALLY Showing Up To Create With All Your Heart, Mind & Soul?

What does being successful mean to you in your creative life?

Having your articles published? Seeing a painting of yours on public display? Releasing your own album?

For all of these - and for anything else we want to achieve in our creative lives – the starting point is the same.

Quite simply, we’ve got to show up.

It’s the most crucial and fundamental part to begin any new creative adventure or project.

If you're not there at the page/ canvas/ computer/ studio, then how can you even begin to create?

So that bit seems obvious. End of story.

You just have to show up at your place of creating on a regular basis, and everything will be taken care of?

You’ll create freely and wildly, gushing out ideas like Niagara Falls gushes out water? Right?

Er, well, no. Because there’s more to it than that.

You've probably heard Woody Allen's famous quote:

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

And, this is true.

But there's showing up and then there's showing up.

Showing up in body - physically being at the place where you're going to create is of course essential, and it’s the first step to that new creation of yours.

But what if you do show up time after time, day after day, and never really get anything done? What if you keep going to the well but there’s never any water? Yes you can give yourself an “A” for attendance, but not much else.

So what does it mean to REALLY show up to create?

To be there, eager and ready to start, willing to pour everything you have in your heart, mind and soul into your creative projects?

Here are 3 of the key elements essential to prepare, to make YOUR creative experiences more productive, and more enjoyable.

1. Have your attitude prepared. Adopt the positive attitude that this creative session will bear wonderful fruit. Tell yourself you’re creative and your creativity is gnashing at the gates, desperate to get out and express itself in so many diverse and amazing ways. It works.

2. Have your space prepared. Get your creative workspace organised so all your tools and equipment are close to hand and ready to use. Imagine you’re going in to create non-stop for 12 hours. Have everything you might need during that time close by.

3. Have your ideas prepared. Keep your ideas collected in one place, whether it’s in a sketch book, on a whiteboard, or on your computer. “My ideas are in one place - my head” doesn’t count! Capture ideas the moment they come to you, then you’ll have masses of material to work from when you go to create.

These are the 3 most important parts of REALLY showing up to create, not just being there in body but half-hearted, or completely absent in all other ways.

What changes can you make today to help YOU show up to create with all you have?

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