With our Super Powers newsletter, we focus on one life area each month and encourage you to take small steps to achieve significant growth over time. This month we focus on creativity. To grow your creativity, it can be significantly easier if you increase your self-awareness and make your environment conducive to creativity.
Self-awareness comes naturally to some and is elusive to others.
When you are not self-aware, you are unaware of our feelings, thoughts, motives, and behaviors and may have trouble controlling them and may exhibit ones you don’t wish to.
Honing the skill of knowing yourself will come with so many benefits beyond creativity.
Self-awareness will
help make you happier at work and home
make you mindful of your actions and the impact they have on others
will make you more confident and less anxious
will help you become more at peace with yourself
help you communicate with clarity
help improve your decision making
How To Become Self-Aware
Personally, it took me until this past year to become self-aware. Hopefully you can do it more quickly. Ironically, the practices I have utilized in the last few years were things I did for other reasons. Surprisingly to me, they provided so many benefits including self-awareness. And now that they have, they have become a practice. Self-awareness is something you learn and keep practicing.
Ways to Increase your self-awareness
practice mindfulness and meditation
practice yoga
make time to reflect
journal
ask the people you love
clarify your personal values
practice gratitude
Meditation, yoga, journaling and gratitude come up again and again as we focus on improving different life areas. Perhaps let’s just do them and see how our whole life is positively affected. These same practices stimulate creativity, so by learning to become more self-aware, we can become more creative.
Becoming more creative can be likened to letting your light shine. When you are self-aware, you open more pathways for yourself. This gives creativity a better chance to come out.
A Conducive Environment
Difficult situations make it harder to be creative, yet it’s still possible. Difficult times can force us to take risks we might not otherwise. Ideal conditions make creativity easier and when things are just right, creativity blossoms. It seems logical then to try to create the best environment possible. Take time to reflect on what kind of environment is best for you, then try to build and maintain that environment to give your creativity the best chance to grow.
Life Lessons
The more you can lessen your inner struggles, the more your creativity can come through. Life speaks to you at the beginning in a whisper. If you ignore the whisper, the message comes to you louder, and each time life increases the intensity and the noise to get your attention. Eventually you will be in the eye of the storm.
Self-awareness will help you learn to listen to the whisper. When you have a challenge, don’t wait for it to build into a storm. Ask yourself, what is this situation trying to teach me? Use all your skills from developing self-awareness and determine the answer. Learn to master the lesson the first time. Otherwise you keep repeating the lesson, and it gets harder and more uncomfortable each time.
The challenge or the darkness is there to show you your light. Solve your challenge and move into the light. When you are living in the light, your creativity can shine through.
A Meaningful Life
Once you become more self-aware, have a conducive environment and learn to listen to the whisper, you will have a stronger understanding of your values. This leads to the next area of clarity that will help develop your creativity.
When you have a deep awareness of who you are and why you’re here, you know your purpose. This will show you how to live a meaningful life.
Once you develop passion around your purpose, you will be living in the light and your creativity will come pouring out because it is at the essence of who you are.
Thank you for reading.
Wishing you beauty and joy, kindness and compassion, and creative super powers.
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About Super Powers
We break the year down into 12 areas of balance. You will achieve greater growth and life balance by intently focusing on one area at a time. This month’s Super Powers focus is on creative life. Next month is about community life.
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Our goal with the Super Powers newsletter is to guide you with small, easy steps to improve many areas of your life. Over time these small changes add up to significant growth and improvement. You will be amazed at how far you have come when you look back at all your progress.
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