Easy Ways to Help Your Creativity Payoff

You are not going to see creativity payoff unless you generate certain habits to keep the juices pumping! Lets jump right in and go over some easy habits to get yourself into so that creativity can start working for you! 

1. Finish Everything You Start!

It's worth spending a little extra time in a crammed schedule to finish what you start. Lets say you start a painting but get discouraged half way through because it isn't turning out like you wanted it to. BUCK UP BUTTER CUP! Keep working on it, don't flip the page and start another painting. Finishing what you start, even if it doesn't turn out as expected, trains yourself to do better next time. That training never happens when things are going as planned, so make sure you jump in head first into projects expecting things not to go as planned. 

This painting represents the beginning of my creative decline! I got frustrated and stopped working on it half way through. All of a sudden, all of my projects were stopping half way through! It took me years to shake off this nasty habit! 

2. Unfinished Projects: the bane of creativity's existence!

Everyone has an unfinished project in their closet or extra bedroom collecting dust because they feel too intimidated to start! Maybe we claim that we don't have time, but we just don't want to fail! These excuses are keeping us from really jumping into creativity! Having unfinished projects is like setting up the projects in your head and leaving them up. Eventually, after one or two unfinished projects, you run out of space to work on other things! Keep your mind free of previous work so that you have room for your creative to breathe. 

Challenge: grab one of those unfinished projects and finish them! You will be amazed how it makes you feel and how motivated you will be to start more projects!  

This guy's work did not look like anything specific until he completely finished. Let it be a motivation to finish your upside down projects!

3. Love What You Do, Do What You Love!

You gotta do what you love, or else the motivation to be creative just flops the second a snag comes your way. Love to paint faces? paint more faces! Love to organize your home? Create more organization tools! You can always broaden your skill sets and passions, however stay loyal to what you are good at or love to do! Simple right? Why don't more people do this!?

This is Agnes Cecile, an artist who loves to paint with watercolor. She is especially good at faces, and if you check her youtube page you can see clearly that she paints A LOT of faces. It's obvious she found her love and does it well!

For me, I grew up with a Grandpa who gave me amazing art lessons! We always drew military subjects and it really stuck with me! It's not a surprise to see an american flag, tank, or nazi on every other page of my sketch books!

  

Old art project in middle school

My military flare still shinning today!

4. Grab A Creative Friend!

Creativity is contagious and so keeping creative people around you will do wonders for your motivation to be creative yourself! If you are about to start a project but you are getting the jitters, invite the nearest creative friend over, fast! They will never tell you to give up! They will be your biggest fans, because creative people understand the power of positive reinforcement.

Let your creatively-challenged friends know you still love them, but they need to go until you are finished!

Try these things out, give your creative juices a chance and watch the payoffs pour in! Today is a better day to start then tomorrow, just do it!