How To Make Space For Your Creativity
I love co-running my mastermind for seasoned business owners because the members are phenomenal, and it always gives me energy.
A topic that continues to surface is their collective craving for creativity that isn’t connected to commerce. Meaning: they share an inner longing to let their creativity be explored and expressed, and to do it without a deadline or requirement of charging for it.
Some of them are creative entrepreneurs. Others (on the surface) are not. Yet, they have a collective wisdom about the power of expression.
Many of them have put their desires into action. Some are picking up instruments. One is creating spoken word poetry. One is singing. Another is painting watercolor. Another is doing crafts with her middle schooler.
Each of them shared how much friction they felt when attempting to carve out the space to do these things regularly. Their minds started to whisper to them how it wasn’t productive and therefore not valuable. Yet, they knew better and continued.
Some took their learnings about how to build healthy habits and stacked their creative activity with something they’d already habituated. Others left their creative objects (paint, guitar, yarn, etc) in places where they’d see them often and have a better chance of engaging with them.
When I spoke with them in the following weeks and months, each of them attributed having improved feelings to their creative outlets. Some generated new ideas for their business. Others were more revived in the time they spent working and worked fewer hours because the time they spent was more productive.
Most importantly, none of them felt it was frivolous or a fleeting endeavor.
Why am I sharing this with you? Because I suspect you could also benefit from considering a creative outlet (or more time spent on one). Particularly in a time where so much feels heavy and dark, this is a space where you can have agency to make your world and moments a bit more beautiful.
Speaking of which:
When you restore your soul, that has a positive trickle-down effect on those around you.