วันศุกร์ที่ 20 เมษายน พ.ศ. 2555

How to Believe in Your Creativity

Whatever else you do to help you originate more, if underneath it all you don't really have the beliefs in place to keep a life of great creativity, you'll always hold yourself back. Often without even realising.

It will feel like trying to soar to the moon on a rocket ship, tethered by a huge elastic leash that keeps slamming you back to Earth, just as you think your creativity is about to go into orbit.

Do It Yourself

So how can you make sure your creative beliefs are strong enough to back up your big ambition?

You plainly have to have an honest chat with yourself. Ask yourself truthfully, what do you really believe about your creativity?

Do you believe you can originate in a range of media, that you have unlimited ideas and the more you create, the good you'll become? Do you believe that creativity is something everyone has, something that can be nurtured, strengthened and vast upon?

Or do you believe that really you're just messing around, you're not a real artist, and you'll probably only have 2 or 3 good ideas in your whole lifetime? Do you believe that creative talent is only given out to a very make your mind up few, and you weren't even on the standby list?

Write out all you believe nearby creativity and your creative abilities, good and bad, clear and negative.

Remember to look at your beliefs about yourself as well as your wider reaching beliefs nearby creativity. You can have a strong conviction in your own talents, yet beliefs like "even the best artists only have one or two great works in them" or "you must suffer greatly before you can be a real artist" may be silently sabotaging your creative efforts.

Once you have as many beliefs written out as you can think of, cut off them into clear and negative.

Or, to look at it other way, the beliefs that heighten your creativity and the beliefs that limit your creativity.

Now, your clear list doesn't need to be altered. You already have there a great resource to help you be more creative. Reading these out a estimate of times a day will compound the beliefs and help you be more creative.

Over to the negative beliefs. For each you've written, ask these 3 questions:

1. What does keeping this trust cost me on a daily basis?

2. What impact will keeping this trust have on my next year, 3 years and 5 years of creating?

3. What would the clear opposite of this trust be?

Once you realise the negative impact of having this creative belief, you can trun it around, and add it to your clear list, the list that you'll read out to improve your potential to originate to your full potential.

Go ahead, try this rehearsal today, and see just how much you can heighten Your creativity by working on those limiting beliefs.

How to Believe in Your Creativity

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