How To Stop Making Excuses About Why You Don't Create More

If I were to ask you why you weren’t more creative right now, do you think you’d say, “It’s simply because I’m choosing not to be”? Or would you come up with 101 different reasons that all add up to a lot of frustration and very little creation?

I suspect it’d be the latter. That’s OK, we’re not here to cast judgement on how much you create or why you say you don’t create more. We’re here to help you see that you have more choices than you think. Follow the 3 step plan below to rediscover that in fact the only thing limiting your creativity is you, and how you can break through those limitations, starting from today:

1. Admit you limit yourself. If you’re forever blaming external factors for why you’re not creating closer to your full potential, you’ll always struggle to create. Complaining that you don’t have time, or you don’t have a workspace set up right, or you never have any good ideas, or the atmospheric pressure isn’t quite right for your optimum creative flow are all factors that you can choose to overcome.

    

   So the first step to rising above these kind of excuses is to admit that it’s those that prevent you from taking the first step towards being more creative. Admit that all the time and energy you spend thinking and talking about why you can’t create more, is time and energy you could be spending finding ways to create more.

2. Remember why you create. Often one of the main reasons we feel we struggle to create more is because creativity doesn’t have the pull and the appeal that it once did. This is because you’ve got caught in a spiral of limiting thoughts about why you can’t create, and you’ve lost touch of how important and enjoyable creating can be.

   To reconnect with your love of creating, spend some time recalling past experiences where you were freely flowing. Remember how that felt, how you lost track of time, how nothing else seemed to matter. Remember the kind of experiences and feelings that creating gives you that nothing else in the world can.

3. Take back the power of choice. Now that you’re aware of how you limit your creativity and are back in touch with the desire and the need to create, take back the power to choose to be more creative. For example when you say, “I don’t have time to create,” what you’re actually saying is, “I’m not making creating enough of a priority.”

   YOU have the choice in how you spend your time. Reclaim just 15 minutes a day from another area of your life, like watching TV or surfing the internet or sleeping. 15 minutes each day is a little over 1% of your available time. That means if you lived to be 100 years old, you’d only have spent just over 1 of those years in creative pursuits. Creativity is more important to you than that, or you wouldn’t even be reading this article. Choose to reclaim the time and space in your life that creativity deserves and needs.

Follow these 3 steps starting today, to overcome those excuses to why you don’t create more. Reclaim your power to choose, reclaim your creativity!