Built to Create: Making, Doing, and Being

"The Importance of Making Time for Artistic, Creative Endeavor.

We are innately, naturally creative and artistic. Every person is artistic and creative, but most adults don’t equate creativity with who they are.

There is a circular relationship between creativity, growth, and momentum. The relationship is this:

• Creativity is foundational to personal growth.

• Growth builds agency, self-efficacy, and momentum.

• Momentum spurs creativity.

The important catalyst for the growth/momentum cycle described above is CREATIVITY. Scheduling and engaging in regular ongoing sessions to think and create is time well-spent. It is time that can lead to great personal growth, which spurs momentum to create and grow even more. Creativity is vital to getting to know ourselves, to contributing to the world, to self-actualization and to forming identity. Human beings are naturally artistic and creative. We are built to create, and we thrive in the realm of creative endeavor.

How might we shape and make time for weekly creative work? A few easy once-a-week ideas:

• Sketch nonstop for 2 minutes.

• Compose a four-bar melody. Then play or sing it in rock, jazz, and classical style.

• Craft a haiku about something in your desk drawer.

• Write out the rules for a new board game.

The point is to schedule ongoing recurring creative time with yourself to do something. Writing a screenplay, painting a mural, running a marathon, and every multi-stage endeavor boils down to prioritization and routine. Routine is comprised of habits, systems, showing up, and doing. Investing thought, time, and action into formulating habits/systems that will create space for creative endeavor can be game-changing in terms of our growth and the tenor of our days. We can make creating part of what we do, part of our identities."

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✨Takeaway: Creativity and imaginative thinking are fundamental human traits. So, making time for an artistic or creative endeavor is valuable. We have innate, natural artistic and creative abilities.

✨Reflection: What’s your favorite way to express your creativity? (Painting, poems, writing, etc…)

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