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Sixty seconds to a more creative you: Ways to get creative fastCopyright © 2002 by Angela Booth * Show up * Trust yourself * Shut up! Show UpShow up. That's all. The most important part of any task,creative or otherwise, is simply to show up. By "showing up", Imean get started on the creative task. The task may be as simpleas giving a presentation, or as complicated as writing a book,but if you show up, you can do it. Showing up to tackle acreative task is the hardest part of the project. The problemwith any creative task is that you can't figure out how to do itusing the logical left side of your brain. Creativity requiresthat you use your right brain; your intuitive self. The left sideof your brain, the analytical logical side, doesn't trust theright side. It doesn't want to relinquish control. This meansthat it's very hard for most of us just to sit down and start.There's a simple way to sidestep this problem. Acknowledge thatare two modes of perception, left brained, and right brained, andthat your right brain will perform the creative task. "Perform"is exactly what your right brain does, when it's presented withthe creative task. Discovery---as you watch your creative selfperform--- is one of the joys of creativity. You never quite knowwhat's going to develop. It helps to add a little humor to thissituation. Think of your right brain as a personal assistant,your VP of Creativity. Show up, and direct your VP to perform. Ifyou want more information on brain modes, check out the freeonline creativity course.I learned that showing up works when I started writing. To writea book, you have to sit down and write it. You may not know howto do it, but do it anyway. Write down a word, and then anotherword. By the time you've written five or twenty words, you have asentence. Keep on showing up, sitting down and writing anotherword, and before too long you have a chapter. It's taken mealmost twenty years, but I realize now that showing up is really*all* that's required.Trust yourselfHave faith that you can do whatever creative task is expected ofyou.You can't do it alone, however. Any creative task requires yoursubconscious mind/ right side of your brain. This intuitive, non-verbal part of you will add inspiration to the task. We spend ourlives in the left side of our brain, and it's often difficult tobelieve that we even have a right brain, much less trust it toperform a task. (See Show Up above.)Having faith basically means getting into the right side of yourbrain at will, into an alpha mind state. We'll discuss mindstates in upcoming chapters of the online creativity course.Shut up!Shut up! Stop labeling, analyzing, criticizing... stopchattering, and pay attention.Creativity demands a fresh way of seeing, a fresh understanding.However... we already have a way of seeing creatively, and thisis direct perception.To access direct perception, we need to turn off the constantmind chatter we indulge in. What's direct perception? It'sseeing/ understanding, without analyzing. An example: let's saythat you're having an argument with someone. The person insultsyou. Knowing it's an insult, you fire up. At this, she tells youthat you misunderstood what she said. Your direct perceptiontells you that you were insulted. You saw the angry look in hereyes, and heard her tone of voice. However, you don't want tobelieve that someone would deliberately hurt you, so you decideto believe the words, rather than the evidence of your eyes andears.Creativity demands that you turn off your mind chatter, and payattention to your direct perception.***Resource box: if using, please include*** When your wordssound good, you sound good. Author and copywriter Angela Boothcrafts words for your business --- words to sell, educate orpersuade. Get in touch today for a free quote: http://www.digital-e.biz/Free ezine: Creative Small Biz --- subscribe athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/Creative_Small_Biz/**END**
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