Top Five Reasons to Cultivate Your Creativity
Copyright 2005 Writer's Eye Advisory Service
Cultivating your creativity is more than spending
time with a hobby or performing and displaying your work. Cultivating
your creativity takes time, awareness and deliberate action.
Creativity like any other skill, needs to be nurtured
and affirmed, as well as directed, in order to expand throughout your
life. Creativity crosses all barriers,cultures,even when styles differ
and philosophies change.
Creativity never changes. It's time to put away those
past negative influences, including no more starving artist scenarios.
Let's explore what creativity really is.
REASON ONE: Creativity is born in
movement, be it physical, intellectual, enmotional or spiritual or
any combination thereof. When you perceive change going on in your
life , some part of the creative process is on the move.
REASON TWO: Training yourself to
create art regularly contributes significantly to making an idea work
by exploring, expanding, building, performing or sharing it.
REASON THREE: The creative process
takes time. However, it can be structured and directed. You can finish
your creative projects on or before your deadline.
REASON FOUR: Creativity stretches
your comfort zone. Practicing a creative skill, takes time, concentrated
effort and consistent work. I know that I feel angry as I progress
through the first phrase of the creativity process.
I struggle to admit that I need to practice, that
I don't know everything, that I don't need help and that in spite
of these thoughts, I can still make progress using my skills. I am
not comfortable when I fail to meet my expectations.
When I complete one creative project. I know that
I've done a good job. My next challenge is to patiently repeat the
first phase of mechanical learning for as long as it takes, to complete
my next job.
My reward is to become more comfortable using my creative
skills ,over and over again.
REASON FIVE: Creativty is fun. I
love looking at numerous possibilities. It's wonderful to be able
to freely interpret and produce a creative product.
About the Author:
Lael Johnson, owner of Writer's Eye Advisory Service,
offers creativity coaching services and additional writing resources.
For more information visit: www.writerseye.com
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