Life is so much richer with creativity.
After my home studio got flooded out and I had to move, I haven’t been painting, and I have missed it so much.
I decided I just HAVE TO DO THIS, as is, within my limited space, because it’s too important. I kicked this off by grabbing an old canvas begging to be painted over, to add some more layers, play around, and it feels so good! I feel really good about the direction of this work, it’s feeling free and interesting!
If you’re not doing anything creative in your life, I recommend finding something. It engages a different part of your brain and is so good for mental health and well-being. It will help you with work too, opening up new neural pathways and ways of generating ideas.
Here’s 5 things you can get creative with really easily…you might do these things already, but if you just go through the motions of it, I’d suggest injecting creative juice into it and make something new.
🥘 cook something new, follow the recipe or make something up
✍️ get a notebook and pen and do a little sketching, get others involved and do a portrait of each other
📝 do some non-work, creative writing - find prompts on the internet
🥕 gardening is art AND science, and it’s so good to get your hands in the soil
💃 get into some of your favourite music and even have a little dance
The biggest thing about this, is that it doesn’t have to be “good”…whatever the hell that standard is anyway. Noone has to see it, it doesn’t need to be a side hustle, it’s just for YOU and for FUN.