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.

Creativity is not efficient, but it utilizes everything. If you are purposeful and mindful, nothing goes to waste. By leaving a little bit of room in your process, you allow yourself the freedom to follow mental trails that arise or to play a bit with an idea before feeling the need to refine it.

Many of us not only allow but invite a high noise floor into our lives. We have signals coming at us from every direction, inputs, requests, demands, and marketing, then we fill our lives even more with noise via the apps we interact with or the stimuli we allow into our lives. Our noise floor is so high that we can’t discern the signal pattern. It

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.

Are you ever operating on the edge of your abilities? Where might you take a creative risk today?

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

Because when you fixate on what’s happening right now, you begin to lose track of your vision. You funnel resources toward maintaining the status quo or simple survival, and you stop thinking about where you want to go. When this happens, you ignore or overlook opportunity. You get stuck in a moment you can’t get out of.

Have you ever discarded an idea because it seemed too obvious?

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility?” —Søren Kierkegaard