3 Ways to Increase Your Creativity
You are creative, really! It’s true. No matter how hard you try to fight it or deny it, you do have at least one creative bone in your body. How do I know? Because I happen to believe everyone is creative.
Before you dig deep into your reasons why you aren’t creative, hear me out.
Creativity is simply about making something new and useful. It’s also about solving everyday problems. Do you have problems? Have you ever solved a problem? Then I contend you are creative. Because it takes creativity to solve problems.
What happens is that our creativity gets buried under all those reasons why we aren’t creative. Reasons like:
- Negative (Stinkin’) Thinking. Our thoughts can really play a number on us. Thoughts like what you SHOULD or SHOULDN’T do, or that there’s only ONE WAY to do things, or that you’re not good enough. The truth is our thoughts can betray us and get us to believe we aren’t creative.
- Negative Feelings. The biggest emotion that can get in the way of our creativity is fear. Fear of failure. Fear of success. Fear of making a mistake. Fear affects our ability to take risks and try new things.
- Lack of Support or Encouragement. Some of us have come across people who don’t really support us, or may even discourage us from following what we want to do in life. If we listen to them, we might believe we’re not creative, or not worthy of following our dreams or passions (which is where creativity lives).
So what can we do to get back in touch with our creativity? Here’s some suggestions:
- Make just ONE small change in what you do. It could be as small as setting your alarm for 15 minutes earlier in the day to allow yourself some extra me-time.
- Ask yourself “What if” and start to really listen to the answer. What if you did that one thing you’ve been afraid to do? What if you looked for a new job? What if you made that change, or took that class, or told that person something you’ve longed to say? Live in the possibility, not in the fear.
- Simply try something new. Check off something from your list that you WANT to do but have kept putting off.
The more you exercise your creative muscles by doing things like the suggestions above, the more creative you’ll feel (and be).
For more ideas on how to get your creative juices flowing, please join me for my next monthly FREE Telseminar, “Thinking Outside the Box: Using Creativity to Be a Better You.” Simply go to the REGISTRATION page at https://krylyn.com/free-teleseminars/thinking-outside-the-box, and enter your name and email to get signed up. Even if you can’t attend the live call, you will get access to the recording of the call, but only if you register.
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