Being Creative

Creativity is like a muscle. The more you use it the bigger and better it gets. Many people feel they are not creative at all. However, I argue that you just forgot how to be creative. All children are creative at first. Their imaginations run wild. You used to be this way. I’m not saying tap into your inner child, but you do need to remember that you can be creative. So as I said, like a muscle the more you use it the more creative you get. My daughters spend a lot of time being creative. They are currently 15 years old and yet they have started writing novels, drawing, and creating the most amazing things. I encourage this kind of activity even if it does interfere with their homework. I can’t complain because their grades are great. But as long as they are using their creative muscles I’m happy. In a previous post I talked about sitting in solitude for an hour and just thinking. I still do this with one change. I take notes about the important things I think about. I try to think about what I’m going to do in the future and how I’ll get there. Then I take notes of the ideas that come to me. This is creative thinking! I can’t emphasize enough how important sitting in solitude is to me. This blog is another creative outlet for me. It doesn’t take me long to write a blog post because I do it so often. It’s interesting because I’m just as much a reader of my blog as I’m a writer. I don’t know what’s going to come out of me until I’ve typed it. I will someday use this blog to feed my book that I’ll eventually write. It will be some sort of motivational book. I also like writing stories. I have a novel that I started to write a couple years ago and abandoned when Covid hit. I often use what is going on around me to inspire my creative writing. I didn’t want to write about Covid so I put it down for a couple of years. Now I’m ready to pick it up again. Why is being creative so important? Creative people can solve problems. Creative people can also come up with new ideas. Imagine what kind of products you can come up with if you started being creative. Creativity gets easier and easier the more you do it. My daughters can write a story very fast because they do it so much. Interestingly they write their stories on their phones rather than a laptop. The key to being creative is believing in yourself that you can do it. Find the area you want to be creative about and start thinking about it. I recommend sitting in solitude and start imagining the what if!