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Most
people will tell you creativity is something you are born with. You either have it or you don’t. I don’t want to get into that debate but I
will tell you I think it’s something we need to practice and set time aside for. The A to Z Blog Challenge is a prime
example. Too often we get absorbed in
working on our projects and never exercise or expand on our creative side.
Set aside an hour or a half hour a week and dedicate it to exercising your creative side. If you’re a writer go to a park take in the sites and write about it from a child’s view, if you’re a painter try painting something with only 2 or 3 colors, a photographer go out and take pictures of the letter “L”. Not the actual letter but things around you like buildings or sidewalks that form the letter. After all creativity is nothing more than:
something new which has some kind of subjective value (such as a joke, a literary work, a painting, a musical composition, a solution, or an invention etc). (Definition paraphrased from Wikipedia.)
Are you allowing some fun time for your creativity to come to the surface? If you're like me and do work for others all day, even though you are being creative, do you think the fact you need to meet others expectations your creativity may be strangled?
Rule #2 Creativity, religiously set time aside and try something new!
Set aside an hour or a half hour a week and dedicate it to exercising your creative side. If you’re a writer go to a park take in the sites and write about it from a child’s view, if you’re a painter try painting something with only 2 or 3 colors, a photographer go out and take pictures of the letter “L”. Not the actual letter but things around you like buildings or sidewalks that form the letter. After all creativity is nothing more than:
something new which has some kind of subjective value (such as a joke, a literary work, a painting, a musical composition, a solution, or an invention etc). (Definition paraphrased from Wikipedia.)
Are you allowing some fun time for your creativity to come to the surface? If you're like me and do work for others all day, even though you are being creative, do you think the fact you need to meet others expectations your creativity may be strangled?
Rule #2 Creativity, religiously set time aside and try something new!
