Creativity is at the heart of many small businesses and is the driving force behind young entrepreneurs. It is what fuels all start-ups but can also begin to stall when the realities of the day-to-day running of a business begin to mount. So how do you stay creative when you are forced to do the same thing over and over again? Here are some helpful tips.
Creativity with Coffee
Most people are at the creative peaks in the morning. So situate your day to do your most creative work in 90-minute bursts before lunch with a complimentary cup of java. The caffeine also coincides with improved focus and attention for about that time span. Also make an effort to avoid checking emails first thing in the morning. Real emergencies will find you. Get your creative output done before you move on to the rote, repetitive tasks.
Take a Walk
Getting out and about will improve your productivity. Besides the obvious benefit of increased blood flow and reinvigoration that a short walk can give you, the sunlight from just fifteen minutes outside can boost your levels of vitamin D and creativity. The time spent away from emails and the computer screen will also give you time to reorganize your thoughts and prioritize. Not all forms of meditation have you seated cross-legged with your thumb and pointer fingers meeting. Taking a short walk each day will help your brain stay fresh and your mind uncluttered.
Set small achievable goals that have real world consequences
Best Selling Author Niell Strauss explains that his goal as a writer is to just write one bad page a day. When the monotony of your tasks is weighing you down, set small achievable goals for your creative output. Then make some type of mark on a calendar you will see every day. After that, the goal is to go as long as you can making your marks. When you finally run into a day where you don’t. Embrace the guilt and shame and get back on your creative horse the next day. Some days you will have the muse flowing through you and you can produce a lot more. Others, it will just be one bad page, but its not about the outcome, its about the effort. That effort will keep you creative.
Greatness is overcoming the mundane
It is important to recognize that a level of greatness cannot occur without overcoming the drudgery of everyday tasks. The great individuals in history all put in their fair share of mind-numbing boredom at a specific job. Even the greats from Mozart to Michael Jordan put in years of boring repetition all before becoming widely known.
Malcolm Gladwell’s hugely popular book Outliers develops the idea that it takes 10,000 hours to truly become a master at something. He follows the likes of Bill Gates and The Beatles and traces their success to the time put in before they made it big. For Gates – it’s the long nights coding and programming. For The Beatles its playing gigs in near anonymity to indifferent crowds. Whatever your trade, to achieve greatness, you must overcome the mundane.
How do you keep your creativity flowing when doing necessary, but mundane tasks?
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