Thursday, October 30, 2008

You CAN Be Creative Again - 5 Steps To Rediscover The Creativity You Thought You'd Lost Forever

Many of us find ourselves in the position of waking up one day and wondering where our creativity went.

It didn’t disappear overnight, but rather over a number of months, years, even decades, as we gradually created less and less, caught up by the demands of day to day life and commitments.

Maybe you now feel like an Ex-Creative yourself, as if that’s something you once were but can never regain?

Don’t give up hope! We are ALL creative, from the day we born to the day we die.

Here’s 5 steps to help you rediscover the creativity within that you feared you’d lost forever...

1. Remember why you create. What is it about creating that’s so special? What does creating give you that nothing else can? How does being creative enhance and enrich all the other areas of your life, how does it make you a better person?

2. Rediscover your senses. Creativity starts with an awareness of your senses and the vibrancy of everything that’s around you. Take time regularly to stop for a few moments and focus on what you’re experiencing through each of your senses.

3. Gather your ideas. You’re capable of unlimited ideas, and the more you have, the more they’ll feed your imagination and produce more ideas. Get into the habit of recording each idea you have in a notebook or journal, right at the moment it happens. Notice how the more you notice, the more you notice. (!)

4. Start small. Don’t overwhelm yourself by taking on the biggest creative project of your life. Choose something small to begin with like a few haikus or photographs or small collages or paintings. Then build up to larger works as your confidence grows.

5. Create a little each day. The only way to be consistently creative. Create at a set time each day for a minimum of 15 minutes. Do this for 30 days and you’ll have a powerful creativity habit that’ll allow you to create absolutely anything you desire.

Follow these 5 steps to rediscover the creativity you thought you’d lost for good.

Each of the steps is very flexible in that you can begin today on a small scale that’s right for you and won’t overwhelm you. Then as your confidence and creativity grows, you’ll find you’ll naturally do more of each.

In a month or so, maybe less, you’ll have in place some of the most powerful pillars and habits possible for a life of thriving creativity.

So, how are you going to start today?

To give your creativity a healthy kick-start I invite you to download your free copy of the powerful and practical Explode Your Creativity! Action Workbook at http://www.CoachCreative.com.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home