Creativity (Goal Number: ) Imitation
inspiration, innovation, originality, authenticity, freshness impostor, drivel,
inanity, mimicry, copy, repeat
AWAKE TO THE GENUINE VALUE:
Living as a fully creative person, you are filled with inspiration and are an inspiration to others. You see possibilities for innovation in many ways and areas, not just in your main area of expertise. Originality calls to you, for you are not satisfied with how it has always been. It is important to you to be authentically you, even though it may ruffle some feathers or even cause some upset. You are drawn to authentic and creative people. You look with fresh eyes, seeing new and better, more interesting ways to do or be.
PARTIALLY ASLEEP TO THE GENJUINE VALUE:
You are sometimes hesitant to put forth your creative ideas. You do not fully embrace the creativity within you.You are somewhat timid about inspirations that come to you, carefully selecting with whom to share. You see ways to innovate some things, but ignore many possibilities. Occasionally, you dare to do or say something original, but you are not confident about it. You hide parts of yourself, feeling not always safe to be fully who you are. Life can feel stale at times.
LIVING IN THE IMPOSTOR VALUE:
You feel like an imitation, an impostor yourself. Your conversations
are shallow, and tend to be about
other people or simply repeats of soundbites. Your words could be called inane or simply
drivel. Your ideas and words are copies of others’ ideas you may have heard on the media or from your favorite politician or celebrity.You repeat the thoughts of
others without examining them, comparing them, or considering anything new.You
rarely, if ever, attempt something new and different.You are out of touch with
your authentic self. Your life tends to be one note and boring.
DECISION
Life without creativity is less than a
full life. We are in the image and likeness of our Creator, so we have an inner
need to express creatively; it is part of our nature. If everyone suppressed
their creativity, there would be no great music, no beautiful art, no
scientific breakthroughs.To the extreme
lack of creativity, we would be still be in the Stone Age. Your creativity can
bring joy to your life, and to others. Withholding creativity holds us all
back. Risk being all you can be.
Choose. Which do you want for yourself and your world? Which
way would you like life to be?
What to do:
FOCUSING
YOUR MIND
Going
for the target you have chosen
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To shift in the direction of creative ideas and experiences, select some or all of the
following and copy them in order to have them with you. Live with them. Think
about them. Absorb them.
*I give myself permission to begin to be more
and more creative.
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I don’t have to be perfect. I simply have to begin where I am.*
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I welcome inspiration.
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I am allowing myself to be more and more authentic.
* I see each new day, each new hour, filled with freshness, for it has never been lived before.
REINFORCING BEHAVIORS
Action steps to take to get off the log
*Each day for a week do one creative thing. Doodle, sketch, make up a song or poem, put on music and dance freestyle around your home, write about an imaginary situation far in the past or far in the future.
*Sit outside and watch the sunset every day for several days. Notice how varied they are, and yet are all beautiful.
*Go to a museum and celebrate the great variety of human creativity. Don’t judge it, just rejoice that humans have thought all this up and made it.
*Start
a journal noting creativity you see or hear. Notice when someone is just reciting
talking points or unexamined ideas. Take note of authenticity or lack of it.
* Play with ideas. What if…..? What’s another way to look at…..?
*Read some biographies of creative people.
*Dare to create something from inspiration.
*Risk being ajuthentic, being you as a unique, one of a kind person. You are no longer a pale
imitation.
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