How often do you complain that if only you had more time, you'd be far more creative?
Do you blame lack of creativity exclusively on lack of time you have, and consider these two elements irrevocably intertwined?
Here's a quick test to find out.
If you had a month off from your everyday life, a whole 30 days free from the commitments, responsibilities and chores you feel prevent you from being creative, what would you do?
What would you create, where would you start, what kind of creative routine would you develop?
If you easily came up with a long list of what, how and when you would create, then that's great. As you know exactly what to do, and realise how important this creative work is in your life, you can begin to find time each day to create.
If you found by thinking of 30 days of creative freedom you actually didn't feel any different about what and how you'd create, or even that it felt overwhelming and you actually felt LESS likely to create, then time is not the real issue for you.
This is very common. We use time as a convenient "excuse" as to why we don't create more. But if you're absolutely honest with yourself, you may well realise it's not about time, or a lack of time.
Even if you have the space in your SCHEDULE to be creative, if you're still not creating, it's because you haven't made space in your MIND to be creative.
Another way of putting this is you're not giving yourself permission to be creative.
Your creativity, rather than being regularly invited out to run freely and play and experiment to its heart's content, has been grounded like a naughty schoolchild, banned from going out to play because it's done wrong, or it hasn't been good enough. And it doesn't even know why...
Until you give yourself permission to be creative, until you allow your creativity to shine and show you what you're really capable of, you're always going to say you don't have time to create.
Or you'll say you don't have the right equipment to create. Or you're not in the right mood to create.
Be honest with yourself. What's the real reason you're not more creative? If you find it's not about lack of time, it's about giving yourself permission, then that's a major step.
Once you've taken that step, you're in a far more empowered position to take the next step to be more creative, instead of holding yourself back with a veil of inaccurate "excuses".
And if you're ready to give your creativity the kick-start it needs, I invite you to download your free copy of the powerful and practical Explode Your Creativity! Action Workbook at http://www.CoachCreative.com.
From Creativity Coach Dan Goodwin
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