Increase Creativity A-Z – W Is For Widescreen- Is A Narrow Creative Vision Blocking Your Creativity?

How ambitious are you in your creative life? What kind of visions do you have for where you’d like to be creatively in 1 year, 3 years and 5 years time?

Is your creative vision as wide, colourful, loud and highly sensory as a multiplex cinema screen showing the latest blockbuster movie?

Or is it more like watching repeats from years ago on a black and white portable TV?

If you don’t dare to dream big with your creativity, it’s unlikely you’ll ever get close to creating what you really want to create, and to reaching your true creative potential.

Yes of course there are times when a narrow focus is exactly what you need to move forward on a particular creative project. By putting on the blinkers and cutting out distractions you can make major progress in a short space of time.

But that’s a different issue. What we’re looking at here is your vision for your creative life.

By visualising where you’d like to be in your creative life at specific times in the future, you can get a much clearer idea of where you’re heading and how you’re going to get there.

By writing down your future creative vision – in all its widescreen detailed glory – you give your creative mind permission to start coming up with all the ways you can move closer to it.

It won’t happen overnight, but by having that clear vision and keeping it present and visible, then step by step you’ll get closer.

Here are 5 of the most valuable areas you can focus on.

Get a pen and paper, allocate some time where you won’t be distracted and answer as fully and honestly as you can.

1. Where do you want to be creating? Do you want your own studio, workshop or gallery? Will you be in an environment that stimulates your creativity to new levels?

2. How often do you create? Is it full time career? Is it weekend and evening hobby? How much time to you spend actually creating and how much on supporting activities?

3. Who are you? What beliefs do you have that have enabled you to get this far? What personal strengths and qualities have helped you to keep progressing?

4. Who can help you on your creative journey? Who can offer you genuine support? Who can you support? Who can you collaborate and share ideas with?

5. Why do you create what you create? What drives you, what keeps calling you back to create? How do you feel when you’ve created something you’re pleased with?

By answering these questions you’ll have a much clearer vision of how you want your creative life to be.

Revisit the questions every month or two, then compare with previous answers to see how you’re moving forward. It’s amazing how – once you’ve got that compelling widescreen vision – progress towards it becomes rapid.

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