Cultivating Creativity

I'd like to think that I am a creative person. I used to paint, draw, read, or what-have-you every day (or close to every day) just because I could and wanted to. It was refreshing and helped me cultivate my own creativity.

Recently I haven't been taking as much time for my creative self. I am creative at school with my acting and design classes, when I do my Forget Me Knot stuff, and stuff like that, but it's different when you HAVE to do it. Ya know? It's different when you are being creative for someone else than when you are being creative for you and only you. There is something liberating about knowing that you can create whatever you want and no one has to see it unless you want them to. You can keep it for yourself and hold it secret for as long as you want or you can show it to people. It is completely up to you because it is completely yours.

In my Stage Costume class, Catherin Zublin let us watch this movie about being creative. Though it was slightly hokey and had some cheese in it, it was still very insightful and reignited that part of me that used to be creative just because it could be.

Here are some things I learned from that video:

- Seeing amazing things is up to me.

- Creativity is falling in love with the world.

- In every act we have the potential to be creative- It is a matter of perspective.

- The key to seeing the ordinary as extraordinary is viewing the situation, object, etc... through the right lens.

- There is ALWAYS another perspective.

- There is more than one right answer.

- Don't stop at the first right answer.

- Embrace change and be comfortable with knowing there is more than one right answer.

- Reframe a problem into an opportunity.

- Turn win/lose situations into win/learn situations.

- Don't be afraid to make mistakes

- If we let our patterns go too long unquestioned they become our prisons.

- Don't be afraid to break the patterns of our lives.

- Train our technique; Vision without technique is blind.

- Put ourselves in the place of most potential- where we can find the most right answers.

- Life presents us with windows of opportunity.

- Don't give up.

- The window of creativity is always open, but are we open enough to see through it?

FALL IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD

GOAL:

I really really want to try to do something creative for me every day. Wether it be dancing, singing, painting, reading, writing, playing piano, doodling, sewing, crafting, etc.... I just want to do something FOR ME, for no reason other than because I want to. HUZZAH!