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Unleash Your Creative Power

There is a continuous, relentless and vicious war being waged against our Creativity. Multiple email inboxes, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, mobile texts, Skype, and WhatsApp steal our Creative power and we even don’t notice.

Everybody fights for our attention: our managers, colleagues, employees, advertisers, media, friends, family members and the rest of the world. They are armed and equipped with the latest technology to reach us anytime, everywhere, and anyhow.

They drive their own agendas, priorities and objectives rather than ours and they force us to be attentive and responsive within seconds. And why not? We are always connected, regardless of where we are or what we are doing. In a demanding era that requires more mindfulness, we become more mindless. The disruptors divert our focus away from our careers, businesses and personal goals toward their own careers, businesses and personal goals.

On their way…they kill our single most important success factor – creativity.

In the 21st Century what really matters is creativity.

Creativity differentiates a successful business from a failed business. Creativity separates a successful entrepreneur from a failed entrepreneur. Creativity is the competitive advantage of every executive, entrepreneur, artist, expert and coach. Creativity is the life force that generates all the advances in our lives, from the airplanes we fly, the mobile devices we use, to the elegant cars we drive.

Do you want to be successful in life?

Then discover how to unleash your creative power!

Unleashing your creative power enables you to accomplish in life whatever you wish to. Uncreative people will most likely end up losing their jobs to people who are able to unleash their creative power.

This century belongs to the Creators.

We are all creators.

We were creative when we were children. We painted. We drew. We sculptured. We assembled. We crafted. Whether in kindergarten, on the playground, at home or at the beach, we playfully, fearlessly and imaginatively created pieces of art that our parents kept and displayed to showcase how creative we were.

What happened to our natural flow of creativity?

The answer is that formal education killed our creativity.

The workplace has forced us to “fit into” standard operating procedures.

The internet replaced family creative fun games.

We stopped being interested in creative, artistic and inventive imagination and started memorizing historical dates and meaningless facts in order to pass exams, score higher grades and compete with our peers.

It’s time to reclaim, restore, revitalize and unleash our creativity.

How?

Creativity is a proactive process. We start with a decision to become creators. Creativity requires hard work, discipline and practice- just like any other task we perform. Once we start creating we become creators.

Here are the 7 steps you can use to unleash your creativity at work, business and in life:

1. Set aside specific time frames for creativity every day. Practice being creative each day by spending 15, 30 or even 60 minutes doing something creative. Do whatever you feel like doing. Paint, write, design, record, etc, as long as it is creative.

2. Produce a creative outcome. This can be whatever you naturally want to accomplish. Write a white paper, redesign your workplace, draw up a new type of process, write a poem, write a blog, or tweet a new idea. Just follow your natural calling and create something that is new and different.

3. Practice silence. Turn off all the noise in your life, in your mind and in your environment. Find a quiet, relaxing place and close the door. Turn off all devices – desktop, mobile, everything. Don’t talk. Don’t let anybody interrupting you. Just practice being silent for a few minutes each day and let your mind relax and wander.

4. Merge your creative process with your job or business. This means taking a creative process that you are interested in and finding a way to incorporate it into your job. For example, if you write music try offering it to your employer to be produced with the next marketing video.

5. Make your creative time into a daily ritual. Try to make this process into a habit. Practice and repetition are key success factors for creating a new habit. Set aside some time each and every day to practice your creativity until it becomes a habit.

6. Dare to share. Do something creative and then share your creative outcome with your peers, family members, friends, or…the whole world through Facebook, Tweeter or any other social media.

7. Convert creative ideas into projects. If you believe in your idea, ask for feedback and execute it. Don’t let negative feedback to turn you down. Convert ideas that receive negative feedback into projects as well.

Creativity requires decision-making, time and effort- just like any other task we do. Our best creative power will come from what we want to do rather than what we have to do. Allocate time, create in silence, ritualize your creative process, share your creative outcome and convert your creative ideas into real projects at work, business, home and life and you will become a more creative person.

This blog was written in my creative allocated time!



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