Creativity For Life and the Myth of the Ex-Creative

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There are many myths around creativity, that, if we buy into them and accept them as truth, will serious limit how creative we are.

One of the most dangerous of these myths is that creativity only lasts for a certain period of time, and once you've stopped being creative, you can never get it back.

Have you found yourself thinking that however much you'd love to be creative again, you fear that your best creative days are behind you, and can never be regained?

Do you feel that we each have a limited supply of creative ideas, and energy and inspiration, and that once they've all run dry, we may as well give creating for the rest of our lives?

Do you think once you've become "Ex-Creative" - ie you USED TO BE creative but you're not anymore, that it's a terminal condition you can never recover from?

The problem all stems from a belief that creativity is a finite, tangible thing.

When you buy a loaf of bread, and you use up every slice, however much you keep looking into the bread bin, it's not going to refill itself. New bread will not just regenerate magically. Once it's gone, it's gone.

Creativity is nothing like this, despite what you may have believed up to now.

In fact the opposite is true.

The more you draw upon that inner source of creativity, the more it will happily supply.

Your creativity needs to be drawn from and used, it thrives most when it's called into action and given something to get its teeth into.

One example of this is having creative ideas. Now maybe you're someone who feels you never have any good ideas, or that you've used up your allowance of great ideas for one lifetime already and so there's no point trying to come up with any more.

The truth is, you haven't run out of ideas. You just don't acknowledge them, capture them and let them evolve.

By using an Ideas Journal, just a small notebook to carry with you and jot down your ideas in when they come to you, you'll very quickly realise that ideas have been floating around just below your level of awareness all along. As you start to write down ideas, more will naturally flow.

For example, think of a red crayon. Now think of a boy in a blue coat. Put the two together. What kind of adventures might the boy have with his coat and crayon?

You can't help but start to think of ideas and story scenarios. Hey welcome back from the dead, "Ex-Creative"!

The more you use your creativity, the more it'll thrive. There's no such thing as an Ex-Creative. Creativity is within you for life...

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