Lots of women have impressive creative ability, weather they are able to perform challenging pieces of music, create captivating paintings or star in a play and hold the limelight in a staged performance.
For many of us somewhere along the way our priorities shifted to afford a particular lifestyle that seems much easier with a traditional job and many times this means we stop holding the limelight on the stage, our paints are put away, we stop playing our favorite musical instrument and our creative writing goes into speeches rather than novels.
It is understandable why some of us stop engaging in playful activities to focus on the practical. After all, it is important for us to do our jobs, take care for our loved ones and pay our mortgages, etcetera. All of this can be exhausting when we do not take time to nurture ourselves. Do you remember a time when you engaged in a creative project that gave you a sense of deep satisfaction?
For some of us it is a matter of giving something up and for others, it’s about never attempting something new. In either case, it is as if part of us doesn’t trust we can have a creative identity and handle the necessary practical things we must attend to in our daily living. We may even think in order for us to get something meaningful out of our creativity we have to be committed to perfection.
Without recommending abandoning your daily commitments to your family to nurture your creativity, there is a way to personally satisfying a level of engagement with your creativity you can introduce into your life. In fact, engaging in creative pursuits, even in some small way can positively feed back into the practical tasks of life. Once we begin thinking creatively, we see new ways of doing things more easily and we can find ways to obtain greater satisfaction from the mundane.
The benefits of creative thinking are amazing. Engaging in your creativity can inspire you to stretch in other areas of your life, personally and professionally. Personal creativity is a very important quality in any business and is necessary to generate new ideas and present them in compelling ways. Creativity in problem solving can lead to more satisfying results than relying on knowledge alone. In addition, developing your own creativity can assist you in seeing that quality in other people.
If you think there isn’t any use in starting something you won’t continue doing, try setting some time aside everyday or once a week just for enjoyment. Although it isn’t necessary, you may want to look into signing up for a class that will feed your creative spirit. Or you may want a coach who will assist you in developing an action plan to ensure your creativity has a place and priority in your schedule. However you decide to engage your creativity, it is important you take action.
What is stopping you from engaging your creativity in your life? Whatever once inspired you or if there is something you have always wanted to try, find the level of engagement that works in your life to see how your life will be nourished by it.
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