Fearless Creating in 5 Steps - How To Create Purely For The Love Of Creating

Whatever kind of creative projects you normally create, however many amazing things you’ve created in the past, sometimes there's nothing like the thrill of simply creating for the joy of creating.

The excitement of the unknown possibilities, the feeling of fear mixed with awe, the spontaneous free flow of ideas, words, images or sounds... It’s what we create for, it’s why creating is so important to us as creative people.

But how do you get to this point of enjoying your creativity? How do you get past all the fears, blocks and negative thoughts to just create?

Here’s a simple 5 step plan to help you create fearlessly – and love every moment of it:

1. Set your intentions. Decide for yourself to put aside at least an hour to commit to creating purely for the pleasure of it. Tell yourself you’re going to create for an hour, whatever happens. Set this intention of creating for one hour straight before you begin. If you say “I’ll try it for 10 minutes and see how I get on” it won’t be anything like as effective.

2. Decide on a form to create in. Choose a media or format that you've always wanted to try but never had the courage to. Or something you loved when you were a child but haven't returned to in years, maybe decades. Make it something that excites you and makes you feel you can’t wait to get started on.

3. Be prepared to create. Have your creative work space ready before hand. It’s no good setting yourself an hour to create then spending the first 45 minutes setting up your creative tools or equipment. Have it all ready so you can hit the ground running. Or rather, hit the canvas creating!

4. Free yourself from expectation. This is possibly the most important step. Don't have any expectations of yourself. Don’t worry whether or not you complete a piece of work within the time period you've set aside. The aim in fact is simply the experience of creating, not the "end product".

5. Create and enjoy! Whether it's finger painting, writing spontaneous prose, playing piano, tap dancing, carving wood or anything else, just begin, experiment, flow where it takes you, and enjoy the child-like sense of discovering at your capability to express your feelings and ideas, and the deep human need we all have to simply create...

Follow these 5 steps to get back in touch with the enjoyment of creating again.

Whatever other creative projects you work on, however large or small, however complex or simple, always make time to come back to creating just for the love of creating.

It will enhance every aspect of your creativity no end.

I invite you to take a positive step to increase your creativity today by downloading your free copy of the powerful and practical "Explode Your Creativity!" Action Workbook. Head over now to http://www.CoachCreative.com

From Creativity Coach Dan Goodwin