Creativity is defined as the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, and the like.
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Creativity is originality, progressiveness or imagination and to be creative is to simply utilize this skill.
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With this in mind, every single person is creative. No matter what you may believe, within you is a source of daring, freshness and innovation – in other words, creativity.
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You may not believe it, or your own abilities, but they are there, within you. They are simply waiting for you to take notice and begin to utilize them. Yes, you may be quite rusty and clunky with your creativity at first, but like with any skill, with use you will being to define and hone and find your ease.
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Living creatively means that you keep expanding your own horizons. That you continuously look at things with fresh eyes and an open mind. It means that you search for differing ways to troubleshoot or problem solve (and let’s face it, each day provides multiple times one has to do both!).
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Being creative also means that you allow yourself to loosen up, not take everything quite so seriously, and you let yourself play. You laugh and you find joy in the silly and fantastic. You get a little goofy and you shift your focus from everything being black and white, this or that, rigid and inflexible. Life is simply not meant to be that solemn and grim.
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To live creatively is to live deliberately and thoughtfully. It’s an expansive, multidimensional, engaging way to exist and it’s never dull. You don’t have to be considered an artist to be a creative, that’s merely one aspect, one faucet, of creativity.
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You get to define your creativity through your explorations of it and it’s all on your terms. What way will you choose today?
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This is an excerpt from Monday Mantra 247 ~ To read the rest or to discover even more #motivationalquote delight check out the #highvibe Monday Mantra feature on my blog http://lawhimsy.com ✨
With Halloween, Samhain and The Day of the Dead so very close at hand, I felt that an otherworldly sort of word would be quite fitting and eldritch is a rather delightful word with Old English/Scottish origins (both of which are deliciously filled with otherworldly history, myths and lore). May your day be filled with all sorts of pleasant, eldritch occurrences – and for those who are being affected by Sandy I hope that you and your dear ones are safe and secure!
“Do not expect again a phoenix hour, The triple-towered sky, the dove complaining, Sudden the rain of gold and heart’s first ease Traced under trees by the eldritch light of sundown.” – Cecil Day-Lewis ‘From Feathers to Iron’.
An eldritch scream filled the still night air and my awareness of the thinning veil between worlds grew stronger…
It’s also a She-Ra title: The Eldritch Mist…so much more of my life makes sense now…
In relation to 80s cartoon shows that is. 😉