Momentum is an important word in the life of a creative person. When you have momentum, when you create regularly and feel fully in the creative flow, then creating comes easily. There's no time to stop and think about the struggles and the blocks--you're too busy creating and having a great time!
Creating with momentum has a cumulative effect and once you're going, it's much easier to keep going.
The opposite state to this kind of momentum is inertia--when you can barely create a word, a stitch or a stroke, let alone a novel, tapestry or painting. And, like momentum, inertia breeds and builds. The longer you stay inert, and the longer you struggle to get creating, the harder that first step feels.
Creating freely again at first feels like an arduous trek up an unforgiving mountain. At worst, it feels like you're completely lost, with no map, no compass and no way home. What's the difference between that state of creative inertia and the state of creative momentum? How do you even begin to gather any momentum when you can't make that first step, let alone string successive steps together? The answer can be summed up in a single word: Motivation.
If you have the motivation to create, you'll always be able to return to creating freely, because you know the benefits, you know how it enhances your life.
So the secret to moving from creative inertia to creative momentum is to reconnect with your motivation to create. To rediscover the importance of creating. To remember what creating does for you that nothing else can.
Here then are the 5 key steps to rediscovering your motivation to create:
- Take yourself back to a time when you created freely. Before you say you've never created freely, think again more carefully. All of us have had times - however fleeting - where we've created with great purpose and freedom, where hours have passed in what seemed like moments, and we're completely lost in creating. Go with the strongest memory that comes to you....
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Author: Dan Goodwin