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There are a number of simple techniques we can use to help us unleash our creativity and start to use more of our unfulfilled creative potential.Often though, rather than pick one and experiment with it, we try to take on 5 or 10 new things all at once, quickly get overwhelmed and come to a grinding halt with all of them!Or, even worse, we get so baffled by all the choices and options available to us, in trying to choose the “one perfect technique” to increase our creativity, we just can’t make a choice so end up doing nothing.So here is just one technique to help you unleash your creativity. Read it through, let it sink in a little, then try it out for yourself a few times, enough to get the feel of how it’s affecting your creativity.Experiment, find what works best for you, then once you’ve found ways that do work, stick with them, build on the success.Giving yourself time to learn and develop can help you be more creative.If you’ve never attempted a large creative project before, then taking one on and expecting to go from idea to completed project in a couple of days isn’t very realistic.The pressure you put on yourself by having such unrealistic expectations can only restrict your creativity further and make it even harder to create.Add to this the likelihood that you want to produce something a lot more than a quickly dashed out, barely though out, prepared and executed piece of work, and the pressure piles on even more.So what’s the solution?Give yourself time.The only way we can truly learn, develop and evolve as creative artists, and as human beings, is through experience, through trying out something, seeing what works for us and what doesn’t, then doing more of what does work, and less of what doesn’t.It’s OUR creative project, we can make a deal with ourselves when we start as to how the project is going to be, and how we will approach it, so it’s as fulfilling as possible.To make this easier, focus on these 3 key elements:1. Make a deal with yourself to be open to learning. If we go into a project thinking we know it all and have nothing left to learn about creating, we simply won’t learn or develop any further. If we’re open to learning, to finding new ways of creating, then they’ll come to us so much more easily.2. Make a deal with yourself to have fun creating. If you enjoy what you’re creating, you’re likely to find it flows more easily, you’ll create more, be more experimental, find more exciting ideas, and so on.3. Make a deal with yourself to let the project evolve in it’s own time. Having goals and a plan is great, it helps us stay focused and motivated. But be realistic, and be willing to adapt. If it’s going to take 6 months, and not 6 days, to do justice to your new project, then give yourself that time and space without guilt or pressure.This is just one many different ways you use to help you unleash your creativity. Experiment with it, beginning today, and see the positive effect it has on your creative life.© Copyright 2007 Dan Goodwin
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