Here are different ways to boost your creativity

You need to work on your creativity, keep learning, and challenge it constantly.

In Summary
  • Your creativity provides solutions to problems, entertains, and also enables you to communicate with others.
  • This can be through music, designing, painting, writing, or drawing.
As we face up against repeated stressors during the holidays, this can lead to lasting changes within the body systems connected to this stress response – ultimately leaving you feeling burnt-out.
As we face up against repeated stressors during the holidays, this can lead to lasting changes within the body systems connected to this stress response – ultimately leaving you feeling burnt-out.
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There are ideas you are yet to bring to life due to lack of time, lack of finances, or fear of failure and imperfection.

However, you cannot tell how it would have turned out if you do not try.

Your creativity provides solutions to problems, entertains, and also enables you to communicate with others.

This can be through music, designing, painting, writing, or drawing.

You need to work on your creativity, keep learning, and challenge it constantly.

Below are ways you can boost your creativity.

Make time for creativity

This helps you strengthen your creativity. Slot time in your schedule, daily or weekly to work on your creative projects.

Do not just wait for inspiration to strike, making time for your creativity takes off the pressure of having to instantly work on your inspirations immediately after they strike.

Allow yourself to explore new topics and creative grounds.

Commit yourself

Commitment can be a scary thing to do, and when not living up to it one can feel like a failure, or unable to fulfil their promises.

However, commitment also increases your consistency, sets your creative goals, and helps ask for help when you need it to boost your creativity.

This will also require you to set time aside to accomplish your commitments.

Do what you love

Doing what you love allows you to be naturally inspired, and enthusiastic.

As you seek to boost your creativity, pick a hobby that allows you to have fun and still be creative when doing it. This will allow you to block out distractions and focus on what you are doing.

This is because when you do what you love, you focus on just the present.

Ask for feedback

A great method for improving your creativity and ensuring that you are truly on track with your work is to ask trusted and respected coworkers and peers for their frank criticism of your work.

Before asking for feedback make sure the person has good intentions, and not they will put you down for them to enjoy your misery.

Identify friends in a related field who can provide you with honest criticism and comments on your work. 

Collaborate with others

This can be a source of inspiration, and a way to boost your creativity.

It can be really helpful to occasionally share ideas with someone else, especially if you've been working on a particular project on your own for a while.

Utilize diagrams and mental maps

Making use of mental maps can help you link concepts and search for creative approaches to situations. 

it is created by having a central word or topic jotted down and then coming up with ideas around that word or topic.

Offers you a visual idea of how things look.

Have a creativity journal

It keeps track of your accomplished projects and helps you note down others that pop up.

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