Increase Creativity A-Z - Y Is For YES! How To Give Your Creativity Permission To Be Amazing

If I were to ask you: “What’s the biggest obstacle stopping you from being as creative, as often, as you could be?”, how would you respond?

Maybe you’d say you don’t have enough time? Maybe you’d say you find it hard to focus on one creative project? Maybe you’d say because you get sucked into procrastinating too often?

All of these are factors that limit our creativity, and all creative people experience them to varying degrees.

But there’s something bigger. Something deeper.

The one thing that’ll hold you back from creating to your full potential, even if everything else seems in place, is that you don’t LET yourself be creative.

Giving yourself permission to be creative is at the core of being creative.

If you’re constantly at conflict with yourself about whether you’re “allowed” to create, your work - and your creative life – will always been compromised and fall short of the heights it truly could reach.

So what does it mean to give yourself permission and to shout a huge YES! to your creativity?

Here are 5 of the crucial elements:

1. Say YES to being a creative person. You ARE creative, accept that and start celebrating it. Allow that creativity to shine through in whatever way it needs to. Keeping it suppressed benefits no-one.

2. Say YES to being able to produce amazing work. You’re capable of producing unique, deep, wonderful art. There are many things that only you can produce. Start finding what they are and creating them.

3. Say YES to letting yourself make a mess. Who said everything you create has to be perfect? Allow yourself to experiment, make a mess, make mistakes. It’s the only way to become more experienced in your creativity.

4. Say YES to being prolific. You can create as much as you want to create. The more you create, the easier it becomes to create, the more ideas that flow, the more will follow.

5. Say YES to letting creativity enhance your whole life. Your creativity isn’t a precious ornament that you dust your off and get out of a box kept under your bed on rare occasions. It’s always there, in everything you do, so let it be free to create!

Which of these 5 areas, rather than saying “yes” to, are you only giving yourself at best a “maybe” or a “sometimes”, or a “occasionally but only every third weekend and if the weather conditions are right”?

Which do you need to give a positive, affirmative YES! to today?

Pick one, then write as in a large letters as possible:

“I say YES to ___________________________________.”

Then pin it up, say it loud, now and another 20 times today, and tomorrow and the next day. Only you can deny yourself permission to create, and only you can say “YES!”. So start saying it right away!

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