Summon Your Inner Creativity

Imagine someone asking you, "how many hours a week do you spend working," or "what do you do?" You are likely to answer something like, "I am a full-time student and I work part-time at a department store," or "I am a doctor," or I am a mechanic", or "I am an engineer", etc.

Your answer depicts the daily schedule of what you do for a living, which is a job that pays you, gives you a social identity, a certain professional status and, sometimes, public recognition.

Be that as it may, very often a job involves duties, tasks, and requirements that we are obliged to do, whether we like them or not. Our freedom to do only what we like in our job is almost always limited.

This is the main reason why so many people suffer from job-related dissatisfaction and see their work as the necessary evil they must endure in exchange for a monthly paycheck.

Now, suppose someone asked you "How many hours do you spend in a week creating something that makes you happy?

Think of your answer: you may take a little longer to give a reply and, when you do, you may say something like: “Hmm, you know, I'd like to be creative but, truth is, I'm too tired’, or "Well, I'd love to have some time for creativity, but I'm too busy with other things," or "Me, creative? But I'm not an artist, I am an office manager!"

So what is creativity?

Creativity is the ability to improve on or make something new via imaginative skill, be it a new method or solution to a problem, device, or a new artistic object or form.

Does being creative mean for you that you have to be an artist, an author, a designer or in some other related artistic line of work?

The answer is NO.

Creativity actually has nothing to do with a single activity. Doing something does not have to be creative or uncreative. You can be a plumber and you may not be creative, as well as you can sing even if you are not creative.

In the same way, you can wash a car in countless creative ways and you can be a creative salesman. Creativity is a quality, which has nothing to do with an activity. It's more an inner stance, an attitude with which you chose to do something.

So how can we be creative you might ask? Well, that’s a topic for some other time.

We as individuals, each and every one of us are completely different. That we can agree on. The energy of creativity flows through us, shaped by us, like light flowing through different crystal prisms. You don't need to go to a school to be creative.

All you need is to channel your deep thoughts into action.

As children, we were artists, adventurers totally creative and somewhere along the way to adulthood we lost. We can reawaken to the sense of wonder in us. Something so often lost in adulthood.

This is also quite evident in companies too. In the beginning, companies create, the push forward by innovating and once they reach a certain point and they flat out or start to regress. It is for this reason why tech giants like Google try to emulate the vigor of startups.