The obsessive need to achieve perfection comes in different forms. The desire to perform, create and be perfect may initially seem as a great motivation but in most cases it appears to be a crippling detractor resulting in intertia. Perhaps striving for perfection is noble in many ways but demanding from ourselves to immediately create something brilliant fresh can stifle our productivity and even our desire to begin working on a task. “A different part of our brains is activated when we think about what’s possible rather than what’s required.” - Seth Godin Competing rarely leads to freshness. Speed does not guarantee success or originality either. Depth and insight are the cumulative result from focused effort, clear intention and perseverance over time. Freshness thrives on making connections between seemingly unrelated things. Freshness of thinking requires time to look at things differently and with more curiosity for longer often by not trying to achieve anything else than pur
Do not wait to start until creativity or inspiration to finds you. Just show up at the page/canvas/screen/keyboard and start making something. Anything. Even if you’re making bad or unimpressive stuff in the beginning, that’s OK. What matters is that you keep creating. Always bear in mind that ideas want to materialize through your imagination and your work. In other words, what can be created by you, waits for you to create it. So get to work. Nobody creates masterpieces on a daily bas is. And the more productive you are, the greater chances are that you will be able to create better and more original things. Cultivate your creative habits consistently. Establish your own creative corner . Even if it’s just a table and a chair. Surround yourself with books, designs, quotes, colors, paper or whatever you’ve feel drawn to and intrigued by. Step away from the screen and put your phone in flight mode. Clean up your room, wash the d