How to be more creative: what is the true value of your creativity?
What would you say is the true value of YOUR creativity?
It can be very easy to get into a pattern and way of thinking that creativity is a luxury, a perk in life that we are only allowed to enjoy once we finish all our daily tasks and our increasingly “thing to do”. wide. list” has been deleted. A selfish gift that we can only give ourselves if we deserve it, or if we feel like we’ve been good enough or worked hard enough.
Or we say we’ll create “when we have time,” and try to squeeze it around the hundred and one demands and commitments it throws at us each day. Through both of these ways, consciously or not, we are downgrading our creative time to be less meaningful than the time we use to do pretty much anything else.
If you’re trying to be more creative, these kinds of approaches are a recipe for frustration and disappointment. And very little creating!
Before you can consistently and willingly spend time creating, you need to value your creativity highly enough. You have to value yourself enough.
So how important is creating to you?
Imagine for a moment that you are visiting from another planet and have no idea of the value of money, you don’t know the difference between a £50 note and a £5 note, or if they are currency at all. So I wouldn’t know how to value them, how much value to put on either of them.
But since you are not a visiting alien, you DO know the difference. You know that having a wallet full of 50 is much more valuable than a wallet full of 5, whatever the currency!
You also know the great value of your creativity.
Not convinced that you do? So try to imagine a life without creativity.
A life where you couldn’t have a single creative thought, where you couldn’t do anything, be it an association in your mind, a batch of cookies, a doodle on a piece of paper, a painting, a song, a novel. . , a sound with your voice, a step with your feet or a movement with your hand.
How dark and depressing would an existence be without creativity?
What you’ll quickly realize with this is that it’s actually impossible NOT to create in any of these ways. But it IS possible to severely limit your creativity when you don’t value it.
Who is the choice? Your family’s? Your friends’? Your postman? No, ultimately YOU decide how important creativity is to you.
Once you realize the true value of your creativity and how terrifying a life without creating would be, you are instantly motivated to spend the time you need, the time you deserve, to be creative.
So take the time to think long and hard about the true value of YOUR creativity. Then follow through with the consistent action you know you deserve…