I’m a firm believer that we are all creative, but many folks have lost touch with their creativity—they’ve lost the connection. There are a myriad of reasons for this disconnection, and it doesn’t matter what they are. What matters is that you can get back in touch with it. You can reconnect to it.
Creativity isn’t confined to art or music or any of the other disciplines we deem creative. There’s no such thing as creatives and non-creatives, though the business world tries to convince us otherwise. Creativity plays a key role in every aspect of our lives. We often don’t see it that way though. It often flies under the radar because we’re not painting a masterpiece or composing a symphony or writing a sonata. But creativity resides in the way that we solve problems and in the way we make choices. It inhabits our hobbies and shows up in simple everyday chores. We just are unaware of it. We can’t live without exploring and using our creativity. In simply buying clothes, decorating our living spaces, cooking dinner, trying to impress a date, or buying a present for someone close to us, we are expressing our creativity. These are all creative moments, but we’ve been lulled into believing that creativity only happens to special people doing special things. However creativity is ordinary and everyday.
Like so many things in our lives, we are unconscious and unaware of the role that creativity plays in our lives, but once we start to see how creativity is simply entrenched in the way we live and we become aware of it, we can cultivate it. We can purposefully and intentionally nurture it. It’s like we are planting tiny seeds, and we can chose which ones receive our time, our attention, our care. We can nurture the seed of creativity or we can nurture the seed that is the denial of our creativity.
How are you nurturing your creativity?