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It’s time to sit down and write the next article, the next post, or the next chapter of your book, but try as you might you come up short, with nothing but a few dead-end ideas that have been regurgitated one time too many. We’ve all been there, right? If you’re not sure what to do next, then keep reading. We have some ideas to help you boost your creativity.
7 Ways To Boost Your Creativity
1) Take a walk!
Even if you are not a fan of the great outdoors, hop on a treadmill, or walk purposely around your house or a shopping mall, but get those feet moving! It is a proven scientific fact that motivation happens when the alternate swinging motion of your arms and legs take place. The creative urges buried deep within will begin to emerge once you get moving. Bonus: you’ve done a good deed for your body while doing so.
2) Clean something.
Yes, you read that correctly, clean a room, clean your house, or clean the entire neighborhood while you’re at it! There’s just something about that mindless task that helps engage your mind and jump starts you into creative mode. I have a cleaning business and some of my greatest ideas come when my body is busy doing a mundane task which frees up my mind to think, and that usually leads to creative ideas.
3) Buy yourself flowers.
You don’t have to wait for your significant other to do the deed. It’s okay, go ahead and buy yourself some flowers. If flowers aren’t your thing, then take in another beautiful act of nature. The beauty that surrounds us has a way of inspiring and getting the creative mojo pumping.
4) Turn on some music.
I know a lot of people who have music on AT ALL TIMES. I love music too, but I must admit, I prefer to write in quiet, with just a low hum of noise in the background. The sweetest sound to me are the voices, or activities going on around me with everyday chatter or whatever, coming from those I love and live with.
5) Read, read, and read!
I have gotten a lot of blog posts ideas by reading, whether it be the blog of another, a book, or even a comment on Facebook. Reading is meant to stimulate your mind. Once that happens, then watch those ideas begin to spill over on to paper or your computer screen. Sometimes it’s difficult to keep up with it all!
6) Talk to a friend.
Pick up the phone (yes, I am aware that no one goes voice to voice these days) but there’s something about chatting live, listening, sharing and laughing that tends to lighten the mood and often puts you in a creative state of mind. Never underestimate the power of a little chat time.
7) Lend a hand.
This is a win/win on many levels. Not only will it get you out of your ME state of mind; thinking, fretting and worrying about what you’re going to write next, but it helps someone in need. There is no greater feeling than knowing that you were used in some small way (or perhaps significant) to lighten the load of someone who may have been carrying a burden much too big for one person to handle. Those feel-good emotions are often instrumental in allowing the creative dam to burst, enabling you to write like you’ve never written before.
I know these things sound too simple and every day to be of much use in boosting the creative ideas that lie dormant inside of you, but oftentimes it truly is the mundane things that are the most profound.
If you find yourself stranded on the island of no ideas, then give a few of these a try. You might be surprised to find the boost you get in being creative from an easy-to-do task.
What are some ways that you boost creativity in your life?
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I always say just ‘LIVE’!!! Life has a way of creating your content… and of course PRAY. But that’s just me- I always ask God what I should write about next…
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Great idea! Thanks for sharing this link.It is also important to develop intrinsic motivation.However, there are many ways but these 7 ways that you have shared here are really helpful to express your creativity more efficiently.
Thanks for your comment, Gary! I’m sure there are more ways but I just wanted to list a few easy to do things.
Love this list; especially how each item has other intrinsic value to your life.
Thanks, Ginger! If I can kill two birds with one stone ( and where in the world did THAT phrase come from?) then all the better. 🙂
I love this list! Everything in it is something simple enough that I could get up and do right NOW! When I’m looking for inspiration, I often don’t have the ability to run out and buy items for a new craft or recipe, but these items are perfect.
Thank you so much for sharing! I’m Tweeting and Pinning for later. 🙂
Glad you found this helpful Jillian. I was going for simple and east to apply.
Love the flowers idea! Great tips.
Flowers are awesome…nuff said. Thanks, LeeLee!
Thanks a lot for sharing. Sometime I do missed some of those you pointed. Need to try make it better. Thanks again!
The beauty of a new day…start over anytime. Keep at it!
These are great ways to boost creativity! A walk does wonders 🙂
A walk does do wonders. Thanks for reading and leaving a comment.
Very good tips fro those who have hit a creativity wall.
Thanks! Trying to keep it simple and do-able. Works best for me anyway.
That is always the best and less intimidating way to do it!
When I need a creativity boost, I take a walk, clean my home, put on some of my favorite music, watch something funny, practice yoga, meditate, or simply put away what I’m working on and start again the next day.
Great tips. 🙂
These are great ideas, Michelle. Seems we are on the same page. Thanks for sharing what helps you.
I love that you love them. 🙂 I hope they are helpful!
Love these ideas!! Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome, Anna. Hope one works for you!
I’d also add getting enough sleep. It’s really hard to be creative when you’re exhausted or sleep-deprived!
So very true, Lisa. Sleep is a must for those creative times.
Going for a run or to yoga always helps me
I agree with running, though I’m not a huge runner. I’ve never done Yoga but I bet that is a big creative booster.
Any excuse to buy flowers is a-ok in my book. 🙂
I’m right there with you, MaDonna. 🙂
WOW! All of these are simple things we can do everyday! I currently do about half of them to help but these are all great ideas!
They are everyday which is why I like them. Mundane can even get those juices flowing!
This are all great! But getting outside or buying fresh flowers are huge things that help me. Stepping away from the computer screen for awhile is sometimes all we need 🙂
I think you are right, Samantha, stepping away from the task usually helps. And I am with you on the flowers and being outside.
I needed to hear these today, I don’t think I do alot anymore and I need to.
Thanks for the share.
Linda Finn
The gift of another day. You can start over anytime.
My favorite is taking a walk. I find that getting out and moving my body gets my brain working really well. Plus, you usually see something that jump starts your creativity that you can hurry back and turn into a blog post!
I know, right? There is something about moving your body.
Oh, my goodness… I love all of these ideas so very much. I’ve tried going on more frequent walks lately and love to read (have had my nose buried in a lot of great books these days). I never would have thought to buy myself some flowers or to use my cleaning sessions as mindful practices. Great ideas, and thank you for this! Pinning now 🙂