High performance leaders are constantly creating. It could be a new product, a new service, a new relationship, a new work of art. We create to improve. We create to solve. Leaders create.
Creativity leverages itself.
When we start to create, we think of more to create. When I write my morning pages (see Julia Cameron) it sparks new ideas. Even when what I'm writing is utter drivel or emotional purging, the impulse to write remains and is much more easily converted to action.
Creativity inspires itself.
Draw a picture, paint a painting, act in a play, write, sing (even if it's just in the shower) and your creative juices start flowing. You can't help it, or stop it, you become more inspired by firing up your creativity. It's simple, you've just got to do it.
Creativity wants your attention.
If you're at all like me, you've had stretches of time (like that time working in a glass factory) when creativity feels like too much of a struggle to pay it any mind. Ignoring your need (yes, I said need!) to create only pushes it down until something inside you is quietly screaming for your attention. Listen! No one demands museum quality first drafts: simply create.
Each day is given to you to create. What will you create today?
-- Doug Smith
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