Every person in the world can be creative, the only question is are you suffering from creative
blocks that prevent your creativity from flowing or is does your creativity show? It doesn't
take creative genius or even all that much sanity to be a creative person. People who are
creative aren't just artists, a designing a web page is an expression of creativity, the
person who is designing a video game is creative, the person who invents creativity is
prerequisite for pursing inventing. In fact any field of work you can think of somebody
has to be creative somewhere in that field.
Creative blockage are pretty hard to handle when you've got to use your creativity in even
just one aspect your job. Even just in a creative hobby a creative block can be very
disruptive. There are even some schools of thought that go as far as to suggest that if your
life that isn't progressing as you feel it should that is a show of a creative blockage.
So here's the better question what can you do about it? I can't tell you what to do about
feeling unoriginal, or feeling uninspired, but here are some things you can do to jump start
creative action. I can say that they work because I've used them.
Here's an easy start place to start. Some people will never make creative things a priority.
The simplest place to start is to take a good look at your priorities. It's very easy to find
time for everything but being creative. This isn't surprising the schools tend to make
creativity something that are squashed in the schools. Even some of my art teachers
ironically enough seemed like they were unteaching me creativity, that's right the art
teachers.
The first solution: Set aside some time for your creative work, give yourself a quota even if
it's small, and anyone from the multitasking generation when you are watching TV sit down with
your art supplies within reach. Your probably spending a certain amount of time in front
of the TV what's wrong doing your creative work on the commercials or in some of the re-runs
of an old episode?
Anyone who has a professional interest in creativity obviously would feel the pressure to make
sure that they're creative work is top quality. Of course some days you look at your work and
can't stop thinking that it's not good enough. Everyone says drop your standards. Their right,
at least for the purpose of getting your creative juices flowing again. Sometimes once I get the
creative juices going I often will keep at it for hours on end, forgetting to eat, drink, sleep
if it would take that long. The picture that you look at and think what a waste might be the
picture that gets gives you the momentum to draw the picture that you really wanted.
The bottom line: whoever said to drop your standards to jolt your creativity was right. It's the
wrong solution for some things, and certainly you shouldn't do it long term, but take some of the
pressure off and getting your creative work on.
Creativity takes energy, make sure that you have gotten a good nights sleep, and a filling meal.
It's hard to be creative when you feel like your to tired to do anything. Some people suggest
to avoid the junk food, but all I eat is what people call junk food, so I can't vouch for that
one. Creativity starts in the brain it needs to be working, if your sleep isn't refreshing find
out why and fix the problem if your sleep deprived or your not getting enough oxygen when you
sleep lack of creativity is the least of what you need to worry about.
So lets say you've done all of these things and your still not able really get your creativity
going. Sometimes there's an emotional issue that's holding you back. Some of these can be
slept off, other times whatever is there needs to be let out. A writer might need to write
about what's going on in their mind, and artist needs to draw about it. I've actually had times
when I was just feeling so heavily blocked and I started to draw a picture illustrating a
great deal of pain that I was feeling. I had wanted so badly to keep this out of my sketch
book but finally I didn't just draw about it I deliberately started to pay close attention
to the pain itself, I wondered how I wasn't on pain killers as I was doing this. I took over
an hour to draw a representation of the pain I was feeling so strongly in my body. As I stopped
censoring myself I suddenly found myself producing one of my better drawings. A few days later
as bad as all that pain was I realized I had gotten temporary relief from some of this agony.
The point: Stop censoring yourself, you might be surprised, let whatever you are just determined
not to write, or draw, or paint, or sing, or dance, or (insert your creative activity of choice
here) out into your creative work. Don't be afraid to say maybe this is something that just needs
to be for myself and nobody else. Some pictures really shouldn't be sold, some stories don't need
to be published, create it first and ask if anyone else should see it later.
There are plenty of people who will suggest other methods that a person can use to help unblock
their creativity throughout the internet. I can't vouch for some of these other methods, what I
have written about here is just methods that I personally have used in order to help boost my
creativity. These suggestions might get you doing creative work.
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