Daily Creative: Find Your Inspiration to Spark Creative Energy and Fight Burnout

Your dead dreams deserve the dignity of a decent burial. It’s important to mark the moment and choose to move on from them. If you don’t, you leave them out in the open, and you may never fully get over them. Even good, beautiful things must come to an end. Give your dead dreams the dignity of a good burial.

What am I doing right now that I should stop doing? What is something obvious that you think I don’t see? How can I be of help right now? If you ask these three questions consistently of people you trust, you are likely to get answers that surprise you.

Your creativity is a gift, but it’s not for you. It’s a gift that’s given through you to others. Your job is to be a good steward of the gift, develop it, and use it to be a blessing to those who experience it.

A scarcity mindset invades every area of life, and when I’m more concerned with protecting, I might lose my ability to recognize opportunities, or I may refuse to act on them because of what could be lost.

The creative process is a personal assault on the beachhead of apathy, and to succumb to the path of comfort is to turn our backs on the greatness that is on the other side of sacrifice. I refuse to allow comfort to be my ambition. Comfort is often the enemy of greatness.

Nerves are a sign that you respect your audience. If you respect the people you serve, you will feel a little nervous about whether your work will truly hit the mark for them. I greatly respect the people I have the honor of creating for and working with, and I want to ensure that I deliver something that’s worthy of them. Don’t mistake nervousness

Are you too lopsided in how you are leveraging your creativity at the moment? Do you need to develop a personal project to help you keep the embers burning?

Entrepreneur and author Derek Sivers says that if something isn’t a clear yes, it’s a no. Life is too short to half commit to things that you really have no interest in spending your time on. We do this out of guilt or shame or obligation, but if we aren’t really putting ourselves fully into it, we’re not really doing it anyway. This applies to dis

Many people fail to make commitments because they are afraid of failing. Instead, they like to “keep their options open,” but in so doing, they are unwittingly working against their own best interests. They fail to channel their energy effectively because it is spread across too many possibilities.