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Everyone Can Be a Creative/Everyone IS a Creative
Creativity doesn’t always produce a signature result.
I’ve been writing books since I was 9 years old. Go to Amazon and you can see my growing list of self-published works.
Writing is my primary source of creativity. But it’s not my only source. For example, when my wife and I married back in 2015, I designed and constructed our chuppah to look like the TARDIS from Doctor Who. I’ve built multiple bucklers – small shields we use in medieval fencing. I’ve taken some amazing photos, done some graphic art, even tried my hand at drawing a time or two.
All these created signature results can be shared with the world. I’ve always relished being a creative and love finding new ways to express that. Yet being a creative doesn’t mean you produce a signature result like a book, painting, sculpted figure, or what-have-you.
Everyone can be a creative. Unfortunately, many people, concepts, and notions discourage people from realizing this.
Creativity in the everyday
I recently had the opportunity to share my thoughts on this topic with a broad audience. Granted, that broad audience was in Australia, in the middle of the night, but we still got callers to the show when I talked to on-air personality Michael Pavlich. This was on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC Radio) overnight show. Our conversation starts at 1:06:31.
One thing we explored in depth is how being creative doesn’t always mean producing a “work” or “signature result” like a book, painting, or a shawl. It can be found in the act of making your bed, cooking breakfast, singing to the radio in your car, wrapping presents, choosing outfits, and all sorts of other seemingly mundane things.
What this means is that everyone can be a creative. The trouble is, creativity is frequently discouraged in the name of productivity, profit, and distraction.
Why? Because creativity is empowering. The act of creating is literally choosing to do a thing to make something. That choice is an act of active conscious awareness. That’s mindfulness. Mindfulness, practical mindfulness such as this, empowers you.
The last thing too many so-called leaders want is empowered people. Why? Because empowered people only require guidance rather than leadership. That causes many of our leader-types to feel as if they have less. So they disempower the masses to keep their “power”.
However, in the end, it always comes back to the truth. Everyone can be a creative. You get to decide to embrace that and take it from there. Or not.
Everyone can be a creative
This notion is not the whole truth. That’s because the whole truth is that EVERYONE IS A CREATIVE. Maybe you’re not producing a signature result from your creative work. But you do create regular, frequent acts of creativity.
What did you choose to put on today? Even if you wear a uniform, did you put on colorful underwear beneath it? A necklace or some other piece of jewelry? Have you gotten a tattoo? All of these are creative acts.
One of the reasons that conservatives and fundamentalists attack art is because they recognize how it empowers. The arts make people think and feel, which leads to action. Denying the creative is an ongoing act of institutional and societal control.
This is why it’s important to recognize the creative in everyone. Because that’s a spark of empowerment. Empowerment isn’t given by anyone or anything; it comes from within you. That’s because only you live in your head, heart, and soul. How you live frequently involves creativity of some sort or other.
Recognizing and acknowledging this helps open you to being more genuinely who, what, where, how, and why you desire to be.
Revelation and revolution
The realization of your creative nature opens a lot of different doors. Acts of creativity, no matter their size, can change your life.
External circumstances will impact you along the way. Yet from within, you can work with them or through them to foment change. Creativity is like exorcising demons. It produces a sense of accomplishment that empowers you.
Empowered people gain more control over their life experience. Granted, the only things over which you have true control are your thoughts, feelings, intentions, positive or negative approach, and actions. Yet those internal elements are your core, and they’re yours to accept, alter, and/or change along the way. Doing so adds to your empowerment.
From revelations come revolutions. Turning this fear-based society toward a reasoned-based society won’t happen overnight. Yet it’s possible. But it will take empowered people sharing their creativity to create such a shift.
It starts small. And that’s because you can only impact yourself. But as a creative, you can create a life that is more true to who, what, where, how, and why you desire to be.
Everyone is a creative. Recognizing and acknowledging this individually can change the world for the better. Soak it in, feel it in your bones, and even if you never saw yourself as a creative before, know that creativity lives inside of you.
Thanks for reading. As I share my creative journey with you every week, please consider this: How are you inspired and empowered to be your own creator, whatever form that takes?
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