3 Steps to Strengthen Creativity and Personal Effectiveness
“The terms everyday creativity or small-c creativity are used to describe originality and openness to new experiences in daily life (Richards, 2021). We all have the capacity to create, whether we are renowned artists or regular folks just wanting to try our hand at something new. It’s about welcoming creativity into your everyday life on a regular basis.
Here are some ways to get in touch with your own creative side.
1. Leverage your character strengths to foster your new creative habits.
We all have these character strengths, although for each individual, our top strengths can vary. And here’s some good news—we can develop and grow our strengths.
2. Empower your creativity habit with mindfulness.
Trying something new or different and paying mindful attention while you are doing it can help to boost creativity. Research evidence has associated mindfullness with benefits including task focus, concentration, compassion, and self-regulation (Goleman & Davidson, 2017).
3. Welcome creative habits into your everyday life.
Creativity invites you to open and expand to new experiences. Allow yourself to recognize that creativity happens in different ways with varying modes of expression. Regardless of life’s external events, we can experiment with our daily experiences and actions.
Here are a few pathways to creative habits:
1. Travel to a new location or to an old one via a different route or mode of transportation.
2. Write a song or rhyme.
3. At work or at home, try an everyday task in an alternate way or with your non-dominant hand.
4. Do a wood project or fix something that’s broken.
5. After you listen to a podcast or read an article, write down some of your reactions or create a simple poem.
6. Re-arrange some items in your home.
7. Play a game that encourages you to think creatively.
8. Learn more about something you’re interested in or try a new activity.
9. Seek a creative solution to an everyday problem and give it a try.
10. Play with a child or talk with a teenager in your life.
11. Sing in the car or the shower.
12. Have fun working on your dance moves.
13. Attend a concert, show, or play, on site or virtually.
14. Grow a few plants in your window or start a small garden.
15. Learn a musical instrument or try drumming.
All the best as you strengthen your creativity habits and personal effectiveness!”
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