It's easier than ever to be crative, to create, to imagine and make what's imagined become reality.
It's also tougher than ever, with distractions sorrounding us in ways never before imagined.
No matter what kind of creative type are you - writer, painter, musician, marketer, blogger, photographer, designer, parent, business owner - you are likely always looking for inspirations, for ways to let loose your creative genius.
Here are, in no order at all:
- Play
- Don't consum and create at the same time - separate the processes
- Shut out the outside world
- Reflect on your life and work daily
- Look for inspiration all around you, in the smallest places
- Start small
- Just get it out, no matter how crappy that first draft
- Don't try for perfect, just get it out there, ASAP, and get feedback
- Constantly make it better
- Ignore the naysayers
- But let criticism help you grow
- Teach and you'll learn
- Shake things up, see things in new ways
- Apply things in other fields to your field, in ways not done before
- Drink ridiculous amounts of coffee
- Write all ideas down inmediately
- Turn your work into play
- Play with kids
- Get out, move, see new things, talk to new people
- Read wildly different things. Especially stuff you desagree with
- Get lots of rest. Overwork kills creativity
- Don't force it, Relax, play, It will start to flow
- Allow your mind to wander, allow distractions, when you're looking for inspiration
- Then shut them off when you're going to create
- Do it when you're excited
- When you're not, find something else to be excited about
- Don't be afraid to be stupid and silly
- Small ideas are good. You don't need to change the world, just change one thing
- When something is killing your creativity, kill it!
- Stop reading creativity advice, clear away everything and just create
- Most of all, have fun doing it