Increase Creativity A-Z - I Is For Inspiration - How To Never Run Dry Of Creative Inspiration

What would your reaction be if I said you actually had all the creative inspiration you’ll ever need, right there whenever you need it?

You can increase your creativity, and tap into creative inspiration far more easily than you may think.

Let’s use an analogy to explain why this is.

These days there are hundreds of thousands of radio stations broadcasting across the airwaves. How many do we actually listen to though?

If we choose only to listen to one of these radio channels, does it mean that all the others stop broadcasting their programmes and their music until we’re ready to hear them?

No, of course not!

It’s the same with creative inspiration. It’s always out there, waiting to be found, waiting to be “tuned into”.

So how do you tune in? How do you get the inspiration that’s right for you, the ideas that you need to start, continue or complete your latest creative work?

The secret is to develop you senses to be open to the inspiration. In fact, a step more than that, it’s honing your senses to actively seek out the ideas and inspiration you need.

Once you take on board the concept that there are potential ideas in everything, you start seeing, hearing and feeling them everywhere.

The shape of the leaves of the plant on your desk, the sound the birds on the rooftops make each morning, the images in a poster advertising a new perfume, rhythms in the fax machine in the office next door, snippets of random conversation overheard in the street, to name a few.

But there’s a little more to it than that, another step.

Once you start to be open to more ideas and inspiration, you’ve got to capture them while they're fresh.

Don’t fall into the trap we all fall into and say: “That’s a good idea, I’ll remember that and write it down later. I don’t need to capture it, it’s all up here in my head.”

Guess what? You WON’T remember it, and that potentially amazing idea will be lost forever. How many other ideas of yours have already gone that way?

Capture the inspiration the moment it strikes, as fully as you can.

Carry a notebook or a voice recorder with you at all times. When you get that glimpse of an idea, jot it down on speak it into the recorder, in a way that captures the idea as fully and in as much detail as possible.

Then, when you next get a little stuck for inspiration in your new creative project, you’ll have a stack of ideas waiting and ready to be turned into some wonderful creation.

All the inspiration you’ll ever need is all around you, waiting to be found.

You’ve just got to tune in to the right channels, and start gathering up those ideas.

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