If you are frustrated, stressed or extremely busy, all these can hinder your creativity for a few days or for a few months. Especially around the holiday season, it can be very challenging. The goal is to prevent any type of creative hinderance so you can keep moving forward in your pursuits.
Here are 5 tips on how to stay creative during the holidays:
1) Comparison – Being in the information age with constant updates, tweets, facebook and more, it’s so easy to think that someone else’s …
this music article blog post was incredibly inspiring to me and I want to share it with you. I have included an excerpt here.
With the challenges our country is facing these days it’s a miracle just to get out of bed in a good mood. Watch the news for 5 minutes and you’ll be bombarded with fear-based headlines and emotion evoking drama. Everywhere around us the media has it’s pull, through advertisements, TV and the internet drawing you into it’s fantasy, the lies and unrealistic …
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. (Martha Graham)
…How many times has a hook, a song idea, or a poetic/song’etic mood come to being and thoughts of ‘I don’t have time’ or I’ll do it later’ flood your mind? Would we truly …
“We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.” (Brenda Ueland)
Ever notice creation of your best melodies and song ideas happen in your car or right before sleeping. Why is that?
..There are no distractions.
Of course, it’s easy to zone out and be available for music creativity when you have no distractions. That’s just not realistic though. With today’s music technology and social media explosion, …
“Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.”
(Bernice Fitz-Gibbon)
At first, being creative is a very subtle entity… It is that voice and those thoughts that quietly give you amazing song and musical ideas… Sometimes, the mind is too noisy or busy to understand. Sometimes, it’s easy to hear but not listen – We hear ideas but don’t write them down. Other times, there are ideas that have potential, but need massaging. These ideas usually visit you the most often and often …
