#24: Creative uptime: 6 ideas for growth-minded creatives to nurture their creative spark
Forget downtime - make room for creative uptime!
As creative solopreneurs we need to prioritise creative uptime.
It’s how we recharge our batteries and invest in our creative growth journey.
It's quality time to spark ours imaginations and feel creative connection that is both progressive and meaningful.
If you’ve been feeling empty and uninspired and you’re not sure why - ask yourself if you’re getting enough creative uptime?
These 6 creative ideas will keep your creative spark firing:
Make your mailbox a magical place to spend time
Unsubscribe from boring emails to only see mailers that inspire you with fresh thinking and ideas. Save an hour or two each week to read and ideate from them.
Start a creative inbox for dumping discoveries and inspirations
Set up a ‘creative inbox’ on your notes app for dumping links, thoughts, notes and quotes. Sort these weekly into relevant action folders to organise your creative thinking so it's easy to reference later.
Reinvent your daily routine to optimise creative space
Make like Tim Ferriss and “make before you manage”. Spend time on your creative output before managing email, meetings, clients and work. Try meetings after midday so mornings are spent immersing in creator mode.
Find your way forwards with The Morning Pages practice
A powerful way to connect with your thoughts and ‘purge the muck from your mind’ before you get into your day. Especially useful if your day involves focused writing and creating time.
Find connection and community with like-minded people
We need 'inspired others' around us when pursuing a creative path. It may be different to what our friends and family are doing, so creative, intellectual connection and belonging in a like-minded tribe is vital.
Give yourself a weekly self-mastery day: indulgent, I know!
This is the ultimate work-life hack for solopreneurs; a day dedicated to self-study, coursework, reading for personal or business growth, writing projects, updating your website or personal brand - anything that moves the needle in terms of creative or business self-development.
All of these are ways to keep creatively engaged, and some of them are 'still work', but the kind that replenishes you because it's honoured with best attention and true capacity time.
Growth-minded creativity deserves it’s own time-slot.
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