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Ways to Unblock Your Creativity

7.15.15I have come to believe that creativity is our true nature, that blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

Here we are, midyear and you are exhausted—spent—you have no more creativity left.  Who cares anyway?  Why bother?

And then, when you are tired of sighing into your tea cup, you wonder, what can I do to refresh and revitalize my creativity?

When my creativity is blocked, I use Google to search for inspiration.  I found this beautiful list curated by Katherine Brooks, Huffington Post to see the entire list go to: 19 Daily Habits Of Artists That Can Help Unlock Your Creativity  I have taken some literary license to expand on the ideas that particularly sing to me.  I hope that they will be of support to you too.

  • Do a horrible first draft of your idea, do not try to make it perfect the first time.
  • Have fun and play more
  • Tell your inner critic to shut up—it is never right—never, ever
  • Establish “me” time every day.  And then keep it.
  • If you feel stuck, ask for help.
  • Take the time to clean up your creative space so that it invites you to come in
  • Be impulsive
  • Be willing to fail
  • Change how you do things and when you do things; this will shake up your routine.
  • Pay attention to everyday life and what it is teaching you.

These are just some ideas of course, you may have your own magic potion which unblocks your creativity every time.  If you do, please share about it.    We all get stuck sometimes and can use a creative stimulus to push us forward.

 

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