STEPS TO START CREATING IMMEDIATELY!

While most of us desire a dynamic and exciting life that honours and nurtures our creative impulses, it is all too common to have our creativity relegated to the “back burner” as we take care of the business of contemporary life. Meetings, errands, paying the bills and preparing the meals sidelines the CD project, the series of photographs, the collection of poems and the new choreography idea. Below is a list of 10 steps that you can take to help you establish creativity as a priority in your daily life.

SETTING UP YOUR STUDIO OR CREATIVE SPACE

“I have done some really good work under the worst circumstances and some pretty awful stuff in a well organized, pristine studio.”

—Shirley Erskine

IMPORTANCE OF MENTORING

“Success leaves clues.”—Anthony Robbins

What is a mentor? Well, according to Oxford’s Dictionary of Current English a mentor is “an experienced and trusted advisor”. So in order for someone to be your mentor they would have to have had certain life experiences that you could relate to, they need to have lived it, ‘walked the talk’ as we call it today. You would need to have confidence in the individual in order to trust them as reliable, and finally, you would have to be willing to let them communicate with you. You’d have to be open to their teaching.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR CREATIVITY - TEDX TALK

TEDx Talk Transcription

This morning I googled “Creativity” – there were 534 million responses. To give you some idea Weight Loss doesn’t even have half of that number…Don’t get me wrong – sex is still way in the lead, but you get the idea – Creativity – is a hot topic that is generating a great deal of discussion across boardrooms, offices and studios alike. While each of us is born with the innate ability to be creative, sadly somewhere along the way many of us came to the conclusion that we just weren’t creative and we stopped giving our most unique and amazing cognitive gift the time and attention it deserves.