10 Ways to Reboot Your Creativity…
1/ Keep a Creativity Journal
Start listening to any ideas, instincts, inklings or urges that are trying to speak to you. Trust whatever comes up and write it down. From now on, write it all down! This is your creative voice speaking to you – so have a pen ready!
2/ Change the Script
Stop doing yourself a disservice and saying to yourself ‘I’m just not that creative!’ From now on we’re changing the script. Start telling yourself ‘I am a hugely creative person’ because, I’m telling you, hand on my heart, YOU ARE!
3/ Unleash your Imagination
Try giving your imagination a workout and seeing just how far you can push it. Next time an idea comes to you try this;
1) Say ‘Yes’, (in other words accept the idea and trust it).
2) Ask ‘And then what happens?’ And build on that idea with another idea, that you’ll say ‘Yes’ to. And on it goes.
Let your imagination roam in any direction it wants to go and push it as far as it will reach. If you keep stretching for the very edges of your imagination, you’ll soon realise, just how much of it you have to play with.
4/ Give yourself Permission to Play
Play is both an activity and an attitude. Try bringing a little more of both into your creativity and your daily doings, because the more you can access your ability to play, the more freely you’ll be able to access your ability to create. Permission to play – GRANTED!
5/ Spot the Difference
Make a conscious decision to see things ever so slightly differently than before. Pay more attention, get curious, start looking from a different angle, through a different lens, and with a fresh perspective. Challenge what you think you see and find a different meaning. Try and spot the difference between what you see and what everyone else sees. Welcome to the world of creative thinking.
6/ Feed your Creativity
Imagine your creativity is famished and needs a good feeding; think about what it’s craving, what it really needs to be satiated – is it adventure, new experiences, a shake-up, good old fashioned fun, culture, conversation – find whatever it is that your creativity is hungry for, and go out there and feast on it.
7/ Find the Perfect Ingredients
Make a list of any rituals or routines that help your creativity flourish, think about what conditions you prefer, what types of environments you most enjoy, what time of day is most conducive to your creativity, consider all the weird little quirks that help get you to find your creative groove and jiggle in it. Once you know the ingredients you need to feel and be at your most creative, start incorporating them into your daily creative practice.
8/ Take Action
Start. Now. I’m serious, go, go, go! Creative is as Creative does. If you want to be more creative, you have to start creating.
9/ Get Out of Your Own Way
Abandon the idea of perfection, give yourself permission to be average, or even slightly less than average if that helps, park all those limiting beliefs, ignore the inner critique who won’t shut up, don’t give in to the ever-mounting pile of excuses any other resistance that threatens to sabotage your creative efforts. Get out of your own darn way and then go back to #8 and take some more action.
10/ Be a Braveheart
Creativity needs to be realised – it needs to be expressed. It doesn’t belong in your head it belongs in the world, through your ideas, your projects, your work, and your voice. However scary it might be, and God knows it is, you have to get comfortable saying ‘To hell with it’ and put your creativity and yourself out there for everyone to see. And to do that, well, you have to be a Braveheart!