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THE TOP 10 DECISIONS THAT LEAD TO CREATIVE SUCCESS
Deciding is the most critical habit of any successful creative career
1.DECIDE TO CREATE SOMETHING
One reason creatives suffer over deciding what to create, is they haven’t first truly decided to create something.
Clients sometimes come to me having hit a block. Or a plateau.
Should I quit, they ask.
I tell them to take the decision to quit off the table. For now.
And guess what? Miraculously ideas begin to percolate. Inspiration wafts in. The creative knots starts to unkink.
In creativity questions are the whole game. Love the questions. But if the question is should I quit is taking up all the room the real questions get squeezed out.
Should I quit is the artist’s version of suicidal ideation.
So make the decision to do something. And move on to the other decisions.
Yes. It can be scary to decide to do something if you don’t know what that something is going to be. You enter a liminal space. Between these two decisons. It’s uncomfortable. And in some ways — deciding to be comfortable with being uncomfortable is one of the most helpful creative decisions you can make.
PS. Yes, you can even decide to do nothing about doing something right now. That’s different than not deciding.
2. DECIDE TO DO THIS THING
And then you have to decide to do this thing.
How? With your heart. With your gut. With your consciousness.
If you can follow your heart’s desire, please do. Because there are going to be days you don’t want to work on it. And you have to. That’s how it gets done. So you want to choose something that you will work on even when you don’t want to work on it.
Ask questions. How excited do you feel about it? Does it feel juicy? Even sexy? Is there energy? Does it resonate with the world right now? Has it already been done perfectly by someone else? Are you thinking about it when you should be thinking about other things? Are you making notes about it? Are you curious about it? Does it feel like there is a place for it in the market? Is that important to you?
