Your limitation - It's only your imagination

Creativity involves transforming your ideas, imagination, and dreams into reality. When you’re being creative, you can see the hidden patterns, make connections between things that aren’t normally related, and come up with new ideas.

Creativity is a gift that everyone has access to but not many know how to unwrap it. It’s easy to get intimidated when you feel like what you produce is uninspiring, even when you get tons of compliments.

It’s a normal feeling to want to be innovative and to want to be the one who introduces the next best thing to the world. Nonetheless, when it doesn’t happen as easily as you expect, you feel uninspired, and frustrated.

If you think that there are certain things that stops you from achieving your creative flow, here are few tips to counter such things & situations:

1. Changing Your Environment

“When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” ~Alexander Den Heijer

For creative entrepreneurs, inspiration is everything. Seeing the same walls or looking out the same window day after day can be a letdown. Sometimes your creative mind needs a push.

You can do this by switching up where you choose to do your work. If you typically spend the majority of your time working from your office, leave your office, and find a local coffee shop to work from for a few hours.Take in the sounds you hear, the aromas in the air and even people.

People alone are creative beings and you may pull a bit of creative energy just from being in a different room with people you’ve never seen before. The hustle and bustle of having others around may keep your mind refreshed. Believe it or not, a little distraction may prove to be exactly what you need.

“Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.”

2. Changing Your Pattern of Work

“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.” ~Bill Clinton

If you’re used to being a night owl because you think that your best work is done at 2 am, try going to bed early and setting an alarm to wake up at 6 am. If you’re not a morning person, you don’t have to adopt a new routine, just try shifting your thought process to thinking that you work well at any time of the day or night.

Whatever you tell yourself becomes your reality. Resist the urge to meander through your day hoping that when the moon is high, you’ll get a jolt of inspiration.

Sometimes an interruption in your regularly scheduled work pattern can be the catalyst in bringing forth your next best project.

3. Changing Your Mindset

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” ~Wayne Dyer

One of the biggest blockers of creativity is the desire to be perfect or to outdo what you did the last time you had a creative itch. This desire often transforms into writer’s block and a lack of inspiration.

This desire also turns the pressure on and extinguishes the vibe you need to allow freedom in your work process. When you attempt to work under pressure, you leave little to no room for your mind to download new information into your creative system. So, don’t be too hard on yourself, just aim to produce and get results.

No matter if you take a small step or a large leap, any forward movement is progress. Try at least one of these tips today and see what difference it makes in your life.

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” ~Frank Zappa