Making Time for Your Creative Self
Making Time for Your Creative Self
But we really all do have creativity, whether we believe it or not. As Brenda Ueland said in If You Want to Write, "Everyone is original, intelligent and has something important to say."
Your creativity may not be in art or writing or music; it may be in auto mechanics or computer programming or cooking.
Wherever your creativity lies, the key to bringing out that creativity and being who you want to be is to make time for your creative side to just be creative.
We often have trouble finding time for our creative selves if we don't have jobs in the creative industries, because we feel that with work, family, and friends, we just don't have any room left in our lives for creativity.
If we realized how important that creative self is, perhaps we could find the time more easily. People who act on their creative impulses and allow their creative selves to flourish have more fulfilling relationships, enjoy their work more, and find that every aspect of their lives is better in ways they could not have imagined, just by allowing their creative lives to flourish.
Finding the time may be less difficult than you expect, when you turn your mind from "finding" time to "making" time.
Let's say your creative area is cooking, but most evenings you get home from work barely in time to throw something together and stick it in the oven. You don't have time to cook the meals you would like to cook. But on the weekends, you spend a lot of time reading and napping, because you're so exhausted from the week.
If you tried setting aside a block of time on Saturday morning to cook whatever you would like, with the idea that you would freeze some of it for the next week, you would most likely find that after your Saturday morning cooking session, you have more energy and more time. Your weekly house cleaning might go more quickly, and you might find that instead of reading or sleeping, you'd like to cook a nice meal for Saturday night.
Over time, you might find yourself less tired and more energized every day, from making this time to cook creatively. While you still might not have time to cook most evenings for dinner, you might find yourself in the kitchen after dinner, preparing the next evening's meal to be baked when you get home.
This practice of making time for your creative self can transform every aspect of your life, making the creative you much more a working part of the whole you. You will find yourself using your creativity in ways you never imagined, and becoming a new person with creativity at the core of your being.
To begin making time for your creative self:
• Spend some time thinking about your creative outlets.
• Make time for one creative activity this week.
• Write in your journal about your creative feelings and activities.
Making Time for Your Creative Self - To learn more about this author, visit David Bohl's Website.
Like this article? Share it with your friends
"I'm not creative." "I don't have a creative bone in my body." "As creative as you are, that's how uncreative I am." These are all real comments from real people who don't believe they're creative.
But we really all do have creativity, whether we believe it or not. As Brenda Ueland said in If You Want to Write, "Everyone is original, intelligent and has something important to say."
Your creativity may not be in art or writing or music; it may be in auto mechanics or computer programming or cooking.
Wherever your creativity lies, the key to bringing out that creativity and being who you want to be is to make time for your creative side to just be creative.
We often have trouble finding time for our creative selves if we don't have jobs in the creative industries, because we feel that with work, family, and friends, we just don't have any room left in our lives for creativity.
If we realized how important that creative self is, perhaps we could find the time more easily. People who act on their creative impulses and allow their creative selves to flourish have more fulfilling relationships, enjoy their work more, and find that every aspect of their lives is better in ways they could not have imagined, just by allowing their creative lives to flourish.
Finding the time may be less difficult than you expect, when you turn your mind from "finding" time to "making" time.
Let's say your creative area is cooking, but most evenings you get home from work barely in time to throw something together and stick it in the oven. You don't have time to cook the meals you would like to cook. But on the weekends, you spend a lot of time reading and napping, because you're so exhausted from the week.
If you tried setting aside a block of time on Saturday morning to cook whatever you would like, with the idea that you would freeze some of it for the next week, you would most likely find that after your Saturday morning cooking session, you have more energy and more time. Your weekly house cleaning might go more quickly, and you might find that instead of reading or sleeping, you'd like to cook a nice meal for Saturday night.
Over time, you might find yourself less tired and more energized every day, from making this time to cook creatively. While you still might not have time to cook most evenings for dinner, you might find yourself in the kitchen after dinner, preparing the next evening's meal to be baked when you get home.
This practice of making time for your creative self can transform every aspect of your life, making the creative you much more a working part of the whole you. You will find yourself using your creativity in ways you never imagined, and becoming a new person with creativity at the core of your being.
To begin making time for your creative self:
• Spend some time thinking about your creative outlets.
• Make time for one creative activity this week.
• Write in your journal about your creative feelings and activities.
Making Time for Your Creative Self - To learn more about this author, visit David Bohl's Website.
Like this article? Share it with your friends
 | |
 |
No article feedback found. |
| |
Leave Your Feedback |
 | |
| |||
Leanne Hoagland-SmithAre your sales where you want them to be? Will you be one of the few who achieves sales or business success or one of the many who have failed to change? Are you tired of being told you are like everyone else? Then you may find my first book on sales of interest. Be the Red Jacket in the Sea of Gray Suits, The Keys to Unlocking Sales available at Amazon or at http://www.processspecialist.com/red-jacket.htm. This book is a reflection of my no-nonsense approach to improving sales to overall business results. If you are truly committed to making sustainable changes, then I can help you secure a positive return on your investment because I focus on executable solutions not telling you the problems you already know you have. From training to corporate (group) coaching to executive one on one coaching, my approach is to assess, create awareness, build a goal driven action plan and then execute. The bottom line question is "Not do you or your employees know it, but do you or they want to do it?" Please call for a free strategy session at 219.759.5601. - Visit Leanne Hoagland-Smith's Website |
|||
Cheryl MatthynssensCheryl is a life skills coach, licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and a 20 year entrepreneur. Cheryl's dedication to achieving a life of balance led to her expanding her teaching from the simple managing of life's daily challenges to adding financial well being as well. A direct marketer with DrinkACT, she is gaining ground in the online community with her concepts of making sure business owners, entreprenuers and employees have well rounded life styles. She opened up a small affiliate site - The Balance Guide- to help others find resources for mental and emotional well being. Visit Cheryl's blog to see more of the diversity beyond business she has began offering online at www.thebalanceguide.blogspot.com - Visit Cheryl Matthynssens's Website |
|||
John PowerJohn Power, founder of Biltmore Franchise Consulting, has extensive experience developing and marketing franchises and business opportunities. He has been in and around franchising for over twenty years. From 1980 through 1990 he conceptualized, organized, and developed the American Video Association. He grew AVA to 2,000 national members, before selling the company it 1990. It was later merged into another home video marketing company. From 2000 to 2005 he worked as a contract marketing and human resources consultant to several local and national companies. In 2005 Mr. Power began working as a franchise development consultant on a full-time basis. Since that time he has helped more than three dozen companies initiate and develop their franchising program. He notes that there are many companies interested in developing a franchise program, and who need his specialized assistance. Mr. Power is a “hands-on” franchise consultant. He said, “I am the ‘nuts and bolts’ person who tends to the details for my clients.” Mr. Power holds a B.S. degree with a major in Marketing. See: www.biltmorefranchise.com You may contact Mr. Power at: jpower@biltmorefranchise.co - Visit John Power's Website |
|||
David AchesonDavid Acheson is the founder of DCJA Consultancy. DCJA Consultancy is a management consultancy business specialising in B2B sales consultancy. They offer bespoke and packaged sales consultancy including Sales Optimisation Review, Interim Sales Management, Sales & Marketing Review, 1:1 Sales & Management Staff Analysis, Management Training, Solution Sales Training, Creation of New Pay Plan, KPI's, run Customer Feedback Campaigns, assist with Recruitment, Coaching, Appraisals and set up Strategic Marketing Campaigns. David spent his early career in accountancy and then moved into sales in 1982, working in Office Equipment, IT, Advertising, Training, Outsourcing and Consultancy. He has held many Senior Positions in SMBs and Global Organisations including Head of Sales Operations & Head of Business Development. His knowledge, skills and great experience of the Sales Industry has led to David making keynote speeches and running educational sessions to key businesses through organisations including The Chamber of Commerce and Business Link. - Visit David Acheson's Website |
|||
Linda RichardsonLinda Richardson is the Founder and Executive Chairwoman of Richardson, a global sales training and performance improvement company. As a recognized leader in the industry, she has won the coveted Stevie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sales Excellence and she was identified by Training Industry, Inc. as one of the “Top 20 Most Influential Training Professionals.” Ms. Richardson is credited with the movement to Consultative Selling and is the author of ten books on selling and sales management, including Sales Coaching — Making the Great Leap from Sales Manager to Sales Coach, and Stop Telling, Start Selling. She teaches sales and management at the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton Executive Development Center. Linda is a frequent speaker at industry and client conferences, has been published extensively in industry and training journals, and has been featured in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Nation’s Business, Selling Power, Success, and The Conference Board Magazine. Learn more about Richardson's sales training and performance improvement solutions at http://www.richardson.com web - Visit Linda Richardson's Website |
|||
|
To learn more about the Evan Elite Author Program please contact us. | |||
 | |
|  |
Subscribe to David's articles
 | |
|
|  |
 | |
|
| |
 | |||||||
|
 | ||
 |
||
 |
||
 |
||
|
| ||
 |
| Have you written articles that would be of value to entrepreneurs? Become an expert on our site by publishing them! Expose yourself to a wide audience, drive more traffic to your website and get more sales! Click Here for details. |
|
|
 |
| Modeling the Masters: Learn the true secrets behind Walt Disney's business success factors & grow your company! Video produced by Phanta Media |
|
|
 |
"Learn straight from Evan how you can Make a Full Time Income (And More) from a Website"
Click Here To Learn More |
|
|
|
|
Get advice & tips from famous business owners, new articles by entrepreneur experts, my latest website updates, & special sneak peaks at what's to come!
|
|
|
 Small Business Financing Increase productivity Organized in 10 mins Memorandum Template 1 The Money Game |
|
 | ||
 |
Email The Reporters
Press Release Builder | |
 |
Top 50 Social Media Blogs
Top 50 Social Media Blogs | |
| ||
 | ||||
| ||||
|
| ||||
| ||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Email us your ideas on how to make our website more valuable! Thank you Sharon from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for your suggestions to make the newsletter look like the website and profile younger entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez and Sean Combs!
|
|
|
| ||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||