Be More Creative - How A Giant YES On Your Wall Gives You Permission To Be Creative

Recently I came across the phrase “it’s like putting a giant YES on your wall”.

This struck me as such a powerful and visual phrase and made me realise again the power of "giving yourself permission" to be creative.

Ultimately, whoever you are, the only person who can control and decide how creative you are is you.

One of the major reasons why people don’t create as much as they could do, or as much as they’re capable of doing, is simply because they don’t allow themselves to be creative.

Any number of underlying fears and beliefs support this. Beliefs such as “I don’t deserve to be creative”, or “I can only create early in the morning”, or “I’m only creative in one specific area, I can’t transfer this to any other part of my life”.

How much do you allow yourself to be creative?

How freely do you give yourself permission to create? Or are there always conditions attached, or pay offs involved?

Think carefully and honestly about the thoughts and beliefs you have that actually hold you back from creating.

Many of them are probably so subtle you don’t even realise you have them. But those are the ones that are most dangerous and most destructive in the long term.

Once you identify these beliefs and thoughts that limit your creativity, you can begin to replace them with ones more supportive of your creativity.

To return to the earlier examples, turn these around to positive beliefs:

“I deserve to be creative as much as the next person.”

“I can create at any time of the day.”

“If I’m creative in one area, there’s no reason why I can’t apply that creative way of seeing and being to another part of my life.”

So take the biggest piece of paper you can find, write a giant “YES” on it and put it up on your wall.

Then think about all the things you'd like to say yes to around your creativity, but don't because of some fear or doubt or negative belief.

Add this list of things around the word yes on the sheet of paper.

Say YES to writing your novel. Say YES to taking up painting landscapes again. Say YES to getting your guitar out of your attic and playing some of your old songs again. Say YES to starting a new project in an area you've never tried before.

Whatever creative project you've been thinking about beginning or restarting, give yourself permission today and put a giant YES on YOUR wall!

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