The creative boundaries you set for yourself serve two key purposes. One is to help focus your energy and self expression and the other is protection from pain and fear. The trick is that while boundaries keep you safe and clear they also box you into a way of creating that’s limiting, repetitive and drains your creative spark. When you feel comfortable there’s no real reason to change how you create. However, over time, the boundaries you’ve established for comfort become creative … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2015
Creative Risk Taking and How it Relates to Self-Esteem
March 26, 2015 By 5 Comments
Putting your work out into the world is a creative risk, plain and simple. You are taking something you’ve envisioned, orchestrating all the resources to bend, shape and craft it into something tangible, then bringing it into being. There are times when this process is gracefully simple, and times when it’s not. You may have people who support you at every turn, or no one but yourself to motivate you each day. Maybe the idea of trying frightens you silly. Despite all … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: 4 Ways to Grow your Creative Wealth
March 23, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Creative wealth is such an interesting resource to play with throughout your life. As a kid you have tons of it. Imagination flows with ease and you go where inspiration takes you. There are no limitations and creative energy is always present. As you grow up, things start to get serious. The creative wealth you generated without even trying starts to feel like work and fear can hold you back from embracing change. You forget you have unique creative gifts and abilities … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Mind your Own Business to Practice True Creative Freedom
March 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment
An experience of creative freedom is like nothing else in the world. You feel strong, confident and clear as your natural gifts flow with ease, blended with the joy of creating things that speak to your heart and soul. To many, it might sound like I’ve described the “ideal” sensation of creative freedom. So, how often do you experience something similar to it? Most of the time? Once and a while? Only in very specific conditions? Not as much as you would like? Or are there … [Read more...]
Playing with Creative Crossover Between Ideas
March 12, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Are you good at seeing the creative crossover between your ideas? Or do you always start from scratch, brainstorming something completely new and innovative while scraps of paper ripe with potential are scattered on your desk, stuffed into a drawer or left in an “ideas file”? If you are looking for a good way to forget your creative inspirations exist and bury their potential, keep on collecting them like museum pieces. This is one of the most common ways great ideas lose steam. The … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: 5 Ways to be in the Flow During a Creative Transition
March 9, 2015 By 4 Comments
A creative transition can feel really tricky to navigate. You are straddling two worlds that don’t feel solid or clear and looking for ways to expand the core of who you are without totally losing yourself - all at the same time. The instruction manual is being written as you walk through the experience, and takes a lot of faith in yourself to keep moving forward through the foggy bits. The ease of a creative transition does not reflect whether or not it's worth pursuing, … [Read more...]
Reframe Creative Hiccups to Move Forward with Confidence
March 5, 2015 By 1 Comment
Creative hiccups happen. You lose a computer file, the “idea well” runs dry as a deadline looms or a promising project falls flat. While unintended, these little snafus don’t leave you empty handed - they offer plate after plate of overthinking and regret just like an like all you can eat buffet. Can you tell when you’re full? Or does the buffet keep sucking you back in for more self-judgment? The creative hiccups sprinkled into all aspects of your life are … [Read more...]
Creativity Kick-Start: Rate the State of your Inner Creative Space
March 2, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Bringing a creative spark into reality and flowing with your inspiration is so much easier when your inner creative space is healthy. Yet, so many of us carry around old hurts or fears as silent wounds that limit us from taking risks or dreaming big. Just like clutter collects in a physical space, it’s easy to let things like embarrassment, frustration or disappointment collect in the nooks and crannies of your thoughts. When your mind and heart are plugged up by ghosts or … [Read more...]