Do you ever doubt your creativity? Do you ever think you just aren’t creative enough or you don’t have a creative bone in your body? If so, this episode is for you. Amy explains why the planet needs your creativity and reminds you of your creative potential. If you are doubting your creativity listen to this episode!

What You’ll Learn

* How the stories we heard at a young age impact our creative self-identity

* The role genetics play in your creativity

* Why we need you to be creative

Resources

* Book: A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson

* Quote: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”~ From A RETURN TO LOVE by Marianne Williamson © 1992 (Paperback; pp 190-191)

 

The Weekly Challenge

Try to identify where those negative messages about creativity came from. When have you received positive messages about your creativity? Do you ignore those and focus on the negative ones? How can you shift your thinking to realize you are creative? The planet needs your creativity!

Transcript

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Transcript for Episode #055: Your Creativity Pep Talk

Amy Climer: Welcome to The Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode 55. Today’s episode is a creativity pep talk. In this episode, I want to remind you how creative you are and how amazing you are. I have been thinking a lot about creativity lately. I know that is not going to surprise you at all because I do think about it a lot anyway, but I have not been podcasting that much lately. It has been somewhat of an intense summer. Over the summer, while I might have typically done say maybe twelve episodes, I only did five. Episode 50 was in May and it is now Episode 55 and it is early October.

I have had a lot going on in my life. You all already know this, but I finished my PhD in the last month, I moved from Wisconsin to Asheville, North Carolina. I am now living in Asheville, which I love. It is awesome! That whole process of moving was much more intense than I expected, in many ways, both physically and mentally transitioning, and even just emotionally leaving Wisconsin, a place that I have been for 15 years and moving to a new place, Asheville. Totally worth it, absolutely worth it. And in the process I have been thinking a lot about creativity because I have had a really hard time getting to the mic and doing a podcast, something that I typically really enjoy and I have been dragging.

I talked about this a couple of episodes ago, but just that need that when we do have something intense going on, we usually have to let something else go. And there is that balance that is so important and trying to figure out how much do I listen to myself and my body and maybe not engage in some project and then how much or when is that avoidance or me trying to procrastinate when really I want to do that project and I care a lot about it. I am still playing with that,