Maintaining your creativity.

I randomly picked up a book from Barnes & Nobles last week. The book is called ‘Creativity Sucks’ by Phil Hansen. This book cover is not particularly well designed. The main cover has hand written white chalk on blackboard like typography. Also, the book has many illustrators or visuals that is hand drawn with pencil like textures. I have been drawn to this book because I resonate so much with this topic. As a creative designer and educator, I have constantly felt the creative blocks. I have ran into this barriers to inspiration, inability to access my most creative thoughts. I have felt un-inspired. For the past several years, I felt like my duty was to manage all my workloads and reduce noise from cross functional members. I felt like I am asked to just get projects done and push through. I was so used to this day to day task. I got really good at it as well. But, I felt like something has been taken away from me. My ability to think independently and create something that is new, innovative, breakthrough, and inspiring. The joy of creating something from scratch has been missing. I am now able to feed my creativity once again. I am able to feed my creativity soul with some new ingredients. I can’t wait to see where this new beginning will take me.