RAISE UP to a more creative self (beat those procratinating blues)!

Reignite your creative energy!  Steps to R.A.I.S.E  U.P to a more creative self!
Beat writer's block
Recognize that something is holding you stagnant, immobilizing your creative self.  Unless you stop and take the time to recognize the situation, you’ll likely continue to feel stuck.

Acknowledge to yourself that something is holding you down, causing you to procrastinate, and affecting your ability to be creatively motivated. Is it some sort of emotion? A situation? Possibly you’re dealing with some sort of self-inflicted fear; of success, of failure, of not being good enough, smart enough or, inventive/creative enough.

Inventory your heart. Take some time to feel your emotions.  Are you sad?  Are you depressed?  Are you feeling fear?  Are you worried about something in your life that may be stealing your focus? Is there something, or someone, that may be interfering with you feeling joy? Identify what it is and feel these emotions. Go ahead and acknowledge them, you can’t put them aside until you admit they are there.  When you acknowledge the problem you take away its power over you because you’ve clarified the issue. If there is something to deal with, then you should do it at this time. If it’s something that you have no control over – then put it aside with the knowledge that you can't change it, you've acknowledged it, and now you're going to let it go.

Socialize with supporters.  Get out and go have lunch or tea with a positive, supportive friend. Go have dinner with the family and let them know you’re struggling a bit.  (My husband always has inspiring words for me that usually hit home in a positive way. I love to sit with him over a glass of wine for an hour – he has such a positive way of pulling me back to ‘creative’. I don’t call him Magic Man for nothing, you know.)

Eliminate the clutter! You deserve a lovely and inspiring work area/office. Make it inviting to your creative self.  If it is messy; clean it, organize it, or rearrange it! Move the furniture, dust the trinkets, steam clean the carpet, or change the curtains.  Paint if you must!  But change that energy!  Changing the energy in your workspace will change the energy in your creative self too!  It’s a symbiotic relationship, so honor it.

Unstick yourself!  Now that you’ve cleared the cobwebs in your office, you need to do it in your creative self too.  So leave your newly cleaned/organized workspace and take some time to feel happy.  Create some joy for yourself!  What does this look like for you; music that you can dance wildly to, perhaps a swim in a pool, a walk, an afternoon read?  Whatever it is for you, just do it! (Nike, anyone?)  Finding some JOY and CHEER will change your attitude.  It will be the ultimate tool that will unstick you from your stasis and complete the realignment of you with your creative energy!

Plug yourself back into your work space.  Walk into your space and bring the joy – the positive attitude – with you. Take a moment to feel your cleansed workspace.  Immerse yourself in the fresh energy, soak it up!  Your workspace and your creative self should be transformed and ready for creative business.  Have a lovely cup of tea in the renewed space, congratulate yourself on the transformation and feel in your soul how much you deserve this wonderful space to be creative.  Now, sit very still….feel that creative energy building?

Get to work, my friends!  YOU are a puma ready to pounce!  YOU are an engine ready to race! YOU are a creative dynamo! 

Do YOU feel ready to rumble?  What other things can you -- or do you -- do to RAISE UP to your more creative self?

Ciao for Niao!  Texas Playwright Chick