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How To Overcome Writer’s Block in 3 Steps

dangoodwin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:31:07 -0500

How To Refuel Your Creativity When You’re Running on Empty

dangoodwin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:33:12 -0600

How To Have and Develop your Best Creative Ideas

dangoodwin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:38:18 -0600

How To Believe in the Amazing Creative Writer Within You

dangoodwin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:04:20 -0600

We are all more creative than we think we are, and the biggest single reason why we don’t write as freely, as fully, or as fearlessly as we could is because of the negative and limiting beliefs we hold in our minds.

For you to start to be able to release that wonderful writer inside of you, first you have to believe that he or she is there. If your mind is full of thoughts like “I’ll never be creative” and “I have no writing talent,” then obviously this will severely limit how creative you can become.

It’s like a pole vaulter going to the Olympics with hopes of getting a medal, then trying to jump 6 metres with his shoelaces tied together and a blindfold on. However hard he tries, he’s going to end up face down in the dirt! Our pole-vaulting pal will be lucky to clear 6 CENTIMETRES with such limitations.

So here are 3 steps you can take to believing in and releasing that writing talent within you:

How To End Your Creative Drought

dangoodwin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:15:19 -0600

When is the last time you felt you were able to create consistently for a period of a few weeks or months? When did you last feel that you could call yourself an active artist, and not say "I'm an ex-creative" or "I used to be a writer"?

We all experience times of creative drought where it feels not only that our creativity is going through a lean patch, but that it's dried up for good.

So what can you do if you find yourself in this position of desperately wondering if you'll ever be creative again?

Here are 5 tips to help you end your creative drought:

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How To Be Creative Without Being Selfish

dangoodwin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:02:35 -0600

One of the biggest reasons we don't spend more time and more focus on being creative is because we feel guilty that we're spending time purely on ourselves.

Being selfish - or being SEEN as selfish - is something we want to avoid at all costs it seems, and any hint of self indulgence in creating leaves us racked with feelings of guilt.

The irony is though, the more creative you are, the less selfish an act it is.

Here are the 3 of the top reasons why being creative isn't selfish:

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How To Develop a Creative Habit for Life

dangoodwin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:44:25 -0600

Habits are one of the most powerful techniques we can use to help us do things automatically and without thinking. By developing creative habits we can we avoid the pain of struggling to haul ourselves to the page or canvas every time we wish to create, instead finding ourselves lost in the midst of creating before we've even realised it.

There are some key elements to developing a creative habit for life that will make creating so much easier for you. Here are the steps to follow:

Start with a reachable goal. If you say to yourself "Right, I'm going to create every single day without fail for the rest of my life!" then just the thought of that is very intimidating and instantly puts you under a lot of pressure. Although it's about creating - something you love and enjoy - it comes across more like a life sentence!

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How To Vote for Positive Change in Your Creative Life

dangoodwin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:26:41 -0600

How creative you are doesn’t depend on outside influences like which political party is in power, or what the weather is like today. You can be as creative as you to choose to be. You can vote for positive change in your creative life today.

Here are 3 of the key ways you can choose creativity:

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How To Boost Your Creativity with 5 New Self Care Techniques

dangoodwin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:18:13 -0600

Taking care our ourselves as artists is something we often overlook. We expect to instantly be able to create great masterpieces from nothing, after having not created a thing for weeks, or we think every idea should blossom into something perfect, and chide ourselves for making the slightest “mistake”.

Being with ourselves 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, makes it all the more easy to neglect ourselves, take these kind of things for granted and have impossibly high expectations.

By learning to look after ourselves and nurture our creativity, we can naturally boost our creativity much more easily than we might think.

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How To Stop a Stream Of Great Creative Ideas from Slipping through your Fingers

dangoodwin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:14:07 -0600

As an artist, where would you be without any creative ideas?

Ideas are the starting point for all creations, the spark that ignites the raging fires of creativity within you just waiting to express their beautiful and curious shapes out into the world.

So, it follows, that an artist without any ideas is like an ocean without water, or a meal without any food.

One of the biggest issues we have as creative people is feeling we don’t have enough good ideas to develop, or that we don’t have any ideas whatsoever. Obviously, this causes a major block in the flow of our creative projects and artwork that can last days, months, even years.

Here then is how to tap into the huge source of creative ideas that is at your fingertips, and how to stop them from slipping away:

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