Your Creative Identity
Creative professionals and knowledge workers thrive on their ability to generate ideas and operate in a state of effortless flow. A consciously developed Creative Identity can help strength your connection to the creative impulse.
A creative identity is your internal representation of how you see yourself, a composite of your imagination, resourcefulness and genius.
The person who consistently comes up with great ideas usually has a strong creative identity. Those who struggle to be creative or don’t even attempt to do so, usually have weak creative identities.
Regardless of your profession, however, you can always enhance your creative identity by re-inventing yourself—by consciously designing a creative persona.
How do foster your Creative Identity?
1) Answer the following questions (and record your answers):
- How would you define yourself?
- What are your beliefs about your creative abilities?
- Do you believe ideas are hard to come by or are they abundantly available?
- Do you have the ability to contribute and positively impact others?
- What do you do (have you done) that you are most proud of?
2) Take the answers to the above questions and create a statement about your Creative Identity—a paragraph that states your creative intention and ability.
3) Upon rising in the morning, put on some inspirational music, get into an energized state and read your Creativity Identity statement. Try to feel the words as you read them.
4) Repeat this exercise for 14 straight days or until you feel your identity shift. You’ll begin to notice more ideas arising at unexpected times.
Your creative identity can help determine future decisions and projects.
Until now, you may have been unaware of limiting beliefs about your creative capacity. Clarify who you want to become, grab hold of your creative powers and manifest the unimaginable.
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