Clear Creative Blocks Forever: 8 how to tips

Your work requires that you be innovative: creatively and naturally manifest something new and original. Is there a magic pill for this?

Consider this: When nature calls, you honor the call. Similarly, to prevent creative constipation, you can resort to these proven plunger-free tips:

Tip #1: Sit on your "toilet" every single day. Pick a spot devoid of visual, auditory, kinesthetic, gustatory/olfactory (sense of taste and smell) distractions. Conversely, having white noise like conversations or music playing in the background, may work for you. Test it out. Allow, don’t force, the creativity to emerge.

Tip #2: Do “a-bun-dance”: dance to your favorite tune, with your ear pods and door closed is best. Or for a minute: shake your arms and legs, like an Olympic swimmer warming up does. Or hang like a rag doll, with your knees slightly bent. This gets the blood flowing back to your brain and boosts your energy, concentration and creativity.

Tip #3: Consider this: A creative block is an illusion. Once you release this belief, you immediately get reconnected to your source of creativity.

Tip #4: View the creative process as a practice instead of a game, where you either win or lose. You will notice that it is easier to access your creative flow.

Tip #5: Befriend and leverage your Inner Perfectionist... at the appropriate time: when you are proofreading and editing content, not when you are preparing it. 

Tip #6: Ask the Universe for ideas and inspiration. All you need is patience and the willingness to see and receive these. Remember, small things (acts) create genius.

Tip #7: Dig deeper into your area of expertise and emotions. Do not worry about being physically and emotionally neat and tidy as you create. After all, masterpieces are birthed from messes. Once you do, you will notice a wellspring of ideas and information will spring up for you.

Tip #8: Read a fantasy book. I recommend Sharif Khan’s new debut novel: "Brave Fortune offers the reader more than just a classic tale of valor, betrayal and vision. It is a fiction-based guidebook to overcoming obstacles and achieving a morally satisfying and pleasurable way of life." - Allen Ginsberg Award-Winning poet and editor, Charles H. Johnson 

Bonus: Take a break. Go on vacation or away for a long weekend and refrain from taking any work, including creativity-related, with you. Or opt for a change of scenery: Drive to your local beach, hang out under a tree, fully breathe in all of the beauty of your surroundings, and write/create your heart out. A change is as good as a rest.

Monique MacKinnon works with executive and professional clients keen to be/stay ahead of the curve. She invented the four-shot Cue Ball Method, which yields evidence, facts and intel that a Google search won’t. She uses and teaches about this highly-efficient and advanced truth detection tool to help elevate clients' flexibility, fluidity, functioning and success and evolve businesses and industries.