Do you feel you have enough good ideas for your creative projects? Or is a lack of ideas one of the major reasons you feel you're not able to be more creative?
Well, you're not alone, in fact it's one of the biggest issues creative people struggle with, not having enough ideas to develop.
Ideas are the starting point for all creativity. Without an initial spark of an idea, there IS no creativity. So ideas are obviously fundamentally important to us as creative people.
There's a popular misconception about not having enough ideas though. The problem isn't actually that you don't HAVE enough ideas. It's that you don't CAPTURE enough ideas.
Imagine your creative mind is a harbour at the edge of the ocean. All day and all night, ships sail by looking for a safe place to dock, somewhere their passengers can rest and replenish themselves.
These ships are like creative ideas, constantly flowing by, waiting for somewhere to dock and settle in.
What many of us do with these ideas is the equivalent of having our harbour closed off, with a huge sign saying: "Sail on my friends, you're not welcome here..."
So the ships sail on, and find somewhere safe and welcoming to dock. The ideas pass before you've even seen them up close, and you're left once again complaining that you never have any good ideas.
But what if instead you had a sign on your harbour saying "All welcome here, sail in and rejuvenate yourselves in our wonderful welcoming town..."?
It would make quite a difference to those passing ships don't you think?
What you would then do is welcome each ship in, and all the diversity and richness of its crew and passengers, to brighten and enhance your harbour town.
You'd welcome in each new idea like a long lost friend, give it a bed and a hot meal, make it comfortable and treat it as if it were a king.
What would then also happen is your reputation as a welcoming harbour would spread to other ships. You'd be known far and wide as a safe and caring place to dock. The more ideas you welcome in and collect, the more ideas are attracted to you. Quite simply, the more ideas you have, the more ideas you have!
So think about how you currently welcome and capture (or don't capture) ideas. Do you have an ideas journal or sketchbook you carry with you to note down ideas as they come? Are you open to new ideas in every situation and different set of surroundings you find yourself in? Or do you go around with your harbour closed then complain of no ideas?
The secret to having more ideas than you'll ever need is simple:
Become more open to the ideas that are in everything all around you, and capture them as they appear, before they sail by, never to be seen again.
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