Jumpstarting Your Creativity
(Simply & Effectively)

1. Maximize your limitations.
• What are limitations? Limitations are barriers. They could also be seen as mental chains as ways of thinking that are hard to change. What are some limitations you have that are stopping you from living out your dreams? We often look at our limitations for what they are, and not for what they can push us to do. That's right, limitations are the key to breakthrough. You are more creative when you lack what you need. For example, in grade school when there wasn't
enough green paint to go around your teacher told you that you had two options: wait until the green paint was available or figure out how to make green by mixing the few colors you do have. So you mixed yellow and blue paint to make green. The lack of supplies, made you utilize the little you did have to create something that you needed. Make great use of the little things, it may lead to a great discovery.

2. Collaborate.

• Two brains are better than one. Creative people are in a world of their own for a reason. Society rejects us because we are peculiar, so we isolate from the popular and gravitate towards those who "understand us". With that being said, there are a huge number of people running around with these big imaginations but don't have a feasible way of brining to life the imaginative world that exists in their head. Collaboration opens up the door for people to exchange ideas, learn, get inspiration, but most importantly become motivated to step out of their own box. Birds of a feather, flock together.

3. Identity.

• Having a deeper understanding of who you are and what your gifts can accomplish are very essential in jumpstarting your creativity. One of the main reasons why the "art" that is being produced by the entertainment world is lacking substance, is because there is a huge amount of artists who don't have an identity. When you don't know who you are, you open the door for others to control you and make you their puppets. To have full control and access of the art you express, understand your purpose. Live, breathe, eat, sleep who YOU are. By understanding your purpose, you build a foundation for great creations.