Today I will show you a very simple way to get going and that has made a huge change in my life. If you want to be creative, make sure you do that creative task everyday.
Now, if it was that simple, how come most people don’t succeed in becoming creative? Well, your inner judge has a lot to do with it. You can read more about that here. But let’s be simpler this time.
You might be saying you don’t have time every day. I understand.
But the reason you don’t do something creative every day is not because of time, money, capability, resources etc. It is because you make it too big in your mind. You overwhelm yourself by focusing on ALL these HOURS of HARD WORK.
For some reason, we think that we have to work so hard for hours and hours. So, doing something every day seems like a huge task and we end up skipping the whole thing.
But you don’t have to work for hours. It does not matter if it is 1 minute, 5 minutes or an hour or the whole day. The point is, well you know by now, every day.
I promise you it is better 5 minutes every day, than 2 hours once a week.
If you don’t do something consistently, you will not remember. Maybe you used to study only the night before the test in school? I know I did sometimes. I mostly did quite well on the tests, but I don’t remember anything today. And I also suffered a lot staying up all those nights as well. What you do consistently, even if just a little each time, you will remember.
In my own life I have struggled a lot with feeling overwhelmed. “Oh, God I have to do this as well!”
Just by reminding me that I only have to do it for a minute changes my attitude instantly. And the interesting thing is:
I always end up doing it much more than 1 minute.
Time is NOT an excuse. You have time every day. If you want to paint, sing, dance, act or anything else for that matter, you have five minutes, or even one minute every day. You do. I mean, you can always get up a few minutes earlier and you have more time.
You have to build your creativity like a muscle. You wouldn’t go to the gym just ONCE and expect to be Arnold Schwarzenegger. “Get out, get out of here!!!”
If you truly do something every day for a month and you don’t get better at it, it means you don’t want to do it. In this case, I say you are wasting your time and making yourself miserable; you are forcing yourself to do something that seems like I good idea to someone else, but you don’t really want to do.
But try every day for a month before you jump to this conclusion.
Practicing every day will make you happy, because you are investing time in what matters to you. It will bring so much energy and joy instead of “I have to work so hard…”
I challenge you to do something you like that you have put off. Do it EVERY day for at least a month and let me know what happens.
Every day! No excuses.
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