how to grow creatively

you can’t use it up

One of my favorite creative quotes is one you all have heard I am sure plenty of times:

“You can’t use up creativity. 

The more you use. The more you have”.

Maya Angelou

It’s like a well that requires priming in order to bring water.

It has to be pumped.

Even when it seems as though nothing will ever come out of that well.

And so with creativity.

We crafters love to create. It fills this space in us that is actually sort of inexplicable to explain. We were created creators and so when that aligns with our behavior our passion, minds and skills come together in an energetic way that satisfies.

There is a hashtag I use often on my Instagram feed. It’s : #cultivatecreate

I believe that my creativity, no matter for a job assignment or for my personal execution, cultivates joy, happiness, this realization of what is inside me that is then seen externally. This creativity that I cultivate is an extension of a certain passion within. Improving on this and continuing to allow that to flow out of me necessitates a certain behavior. That behavior is in the doing.

To grow our creativity we need to create often. If not daily. Because we can’t use this up. The more we use it the more we have, right? I am living proof of this. I never thought I could create for long term. However, when I recently made a decision to up my game of creative thought and pursuit, it happened just like Maya said it would. I actually created more. And it is bringing me so much joy as well as ideas and thoughts and processes. I am looking forward to where this current cultivation will lead in months to come.

So, dear reader. What about you? Is there a small or maybe even large need to cultivate and create in your life? Then I have challenge for you.

My approach this coming month of March is to show up daily to a simple task of creativity. This is above and beyond my creative assignments as well as my personal memory keeping I already have in place. This is a smallish task that exercises my ideas, my creativity, my joy in the doing and cultivating everyday.

I am going to call it #30daysofmemorydex

On my Instagram feed I will be posting a daily Memory Dex card.

I would love for you to play along. 

Scrapbook.com will be stocking Memory Dex soon. I'll be sure to update that here as soon as it hits.

Other than that, I will be using my own stash to create cards and what not.

I am so excited to not only see my MemoryDex Spinner filling up for the month of March,

but I am super enthusiastic to cultivate a daily habit of creativity that is sure to only create more.

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