How To Create as Easily and as Naturally as You Breathe

How easy do you find it to be creative? Do creative ideas flow freely and readily? Can you sit down and create at a moment’s notice, always ready to pour out new beautiful artistic expressions? Do you experiment with different styles, genres and materials with the carefree playfulness of a child with their favourite toys?

If the answer to any of these questions is anything other than a big happy YES, then don’t worry, there’s help at hand.

Here is your 3 point plan to help you create as easily and as naturally as breathing:

1. Set up your creative workspace. Many of us already have a place set up to do our creative work. The problem is, the space that was available has long been buried under an ever growing pile of papers and materials that mean you have to spend 20 minutes reorganising before you can even see a square inch of desk space. By the time you’ve done that, your motivation to create anything has got up and left.

   To allow you to be most creative, set up your creative workspace so you can go to it at any time and just create. Even if you need a lot of equipment and materials, take the time to organise them so they’re close to hand. The more organised your creative space is set up for YOUR preferred way of creating, the more easily you’ll be able to create.

2. Create every day. This is the core habit to being able to create as freely as you breathe. When you set time aside each and every day – even if it’s as little as 15 minutes - two significant things occur. First, you get used to creating regularly and because you’re getting that consistent practice, you’re able to build and develop your creative skills and talents over time.

   Secondly, you subconsciously give your creativity permission to be more active. If you create only very occasionally, your creativity gets bored with coming up with ideas only for them to be ignored, forgotten and discarded. When you create everyday, you give your creativity that regular outlet to express itself. It responds by giving you a steady supply of wonderful new ideas.
3. Be experimental. When you create every day, you have the chance to be more experimental. Just creating clones of the same artwork you’ve been producing for years won’t help you evolve as an artist, and your creative talents will become stilted and restricted.

   Even if you spend 5 of your daily creativity sessions out of 7 on similar, familiar work, use the other 2 to experiment and try new techniques, approaches and materials. Whatever the outcome of these experimental sessions, you’ll return to more familiar creating a more flexible and enriched artist. Which means you’re able to create all the more easily.

When you follow these 3 tips you can’t help but significantly increase your creativity. The more you practice, the more you experiment and the more you create, the more your creativity will naturally flow. In time you’ll be creating without thinking, just like breathing!