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How To Nurture Your Creativity

July 18, 2014 whitneyenglish 4 Comments

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night, restless and unsettled? Have you ever felt called to action, but you’re just not sure in what direction? Have you ever seen injustice, and wished your pointer finger was a magic wand, because you know you’re supposed to do SOMETHING?

I think we all feel this. It’s a feeling I struggle to define, though.

It’s part urge, part drive, part gut instinct and intuition, part love.

It’s a dissatisfaction with the way the present is.

It’s the knowledge that things can be different, and the confidence that different is better.

It’s not arrogant. It’s quiet.
It’s not foolish. It’s careful.
It’s not content, but for the best reasons.

The best way I can think to describe this emotion is simply this: you stumbled on to the seed of an idea. This emotion is creativity, in embryonic form.

The next time you can’t sleep, the next time you want to fight injustice, the next time you feel called, nurture the idea. Find some quiet, journal the feelings, mind-map the bunny trails your mind will take you.

Don’t try to organize, or structure it.
Don’t limit it.
Don’t shrug it off as insomnia, or say you can’t possibly be the one who is supposed to be doing something about it.

Whatever you do, don’t judge it. If you do, you’ve stifled and killed your creativity.

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  1. Heather says

    July 22, 2014 at 5:35 am

    So thought provoking. Thank you.

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  2. Anya N. Burnett says

    September 27, 2014 at 11:53 pm

    Whitney, you’ve open the creativity box by sharing this morsel of wisdom. I, too, have struggled with looking for explanation to the unsettled emotions. I’ve come to a nice pit-stop on my long journey to understand that my creative energy is screaming to get out of the box and be an active participant of life. It’s the wheels of the creative motion that is waking me up in the early morning telling me to ‘Get On It’. And, I’m getting on it.

    Again, thank you for sharing.

    Anya N. Burnett

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  3. Lindsey says

    October 22, 2014 at 2:29 am

    Beautifully crafted, powerful words.

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  4. Austin says

    November 25, 2014 at 8:41 am

    I love this. Feel it all the time. I must be dropping hundreds of seeds but have no idea what to do with them or how to nurture.

    Reply

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