You can Be Creative!
Very often, you hear people saying:
"Wow! You are creative. I just do not have that gift in me."
"I wish I can be as creative as him."
"I am just not good at coming out with ideas. People think I am not
creative."
The truth is, every one of these people is creative ancl they can be
taught to unleash the potential in them. They have just not been shown
the creative part within themselves. It is quite likely that when they
are young, their creativity were frown upon as awful, trivial and
incompetent. With this lack of encouragement, they become convinced
that they are not creative and even think that they can never be.
Creativity is all around us everyday. We create things to make our life
easier and we create mess as well. Kids are brilliant at creating
chaos! Some of us are extremely skilful in some area but ordinary in
others. However, being poorly skilled does not mean that you are not
creative.
The problem with our society is that most people label someone as
"creative" because this person is has the innate talent to create
artistic things or one who has a gift to make him stand out of the
crowd. Indeed these people may be gifted or talented, but that does not
make you less creative than them.
The key to unlock your creativity is to tell yourself that you are
creative. Most importantly, you need to practise it frequently. Just
like any sports person, if he does not practise frequent$, he will
become flabby and out of shape. So from now on tell yourself:
1. "I am CREATIVE! I CAN do that!"
2. Practise, practise and practise.
