Nowadays, it seems that everyone and his cousin have taken to blogging. This form of online self-expression has slowly but steadily taken over the World Wide Web to become somewhat of a phenomenon in recent years. Some people use blogs as their personal journals, some may see them as an outlet for their creative work, and others may just want their own personal place in cyberspace to share thoughts and ideas.
No matter what your personality or profession, creativity plays a very important part in every person’s financial and personal life.
Even if you are not someone like an artist or a musician, it is still vital to your success that you have a constant stream of creative energy.
As an example, let’s say that you are just a run-of-the-mill business man. At first glance, you would think that this profession would be analytical and dull, and therefore would not require too much creativity in order to be successful.
We all have a self-image, a picture or collection of pictures in our heads about how we think we are and how we think we appear to the outside world.
Speaking personally for a moment, I’ve met a number of new people in the last couple of months, and many of them have told me how I’m confident and capable.
I’m delighted and grateful about the compliments of course, but a little voice deep inside still says:
“Confident? Me? Come on, I’m just a shy and scared little boy!”
Whatever we enjoy as creative projects, sometimes there’s nothing like the thrill of simply creating for the joy of creating.
The excitement of the unknown possibilities, the feeling of fear mixed with awe, the spontaneous free flow of ideas, words, images or sounds…
Often, the barriers that appear when we go to create – both externally and in our minds – can be traced back to what we EXPECT to produce.
It’s deeply engrained in many of us that unless we have some amazing “end product” after a period of creating - something real and tangible to show for all our efforts - then somehow that time has been wasted.