Understanding Your Creative Rhythm

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by Jocelyn P. Kelly

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Jocelyn P. Kellyjocelyn@realizingyourcreativelife.com

Writer. Artist. Publisher. Clarion West Alumni.

Creativity Coach. Enthusiastic Spark. Supporter of Good

Cheer and Good Will. Insightful and often witty.

Understanding Your Creative Rhythm

Our creative rhythms are unique to each one of us and expand and contract as we change throughout life.

As we learn new skills, our mind opens up to new possibilities, new ideas, and new patterns of thinking. 

To help you understand your creative rhythm, I've broken it down into six steps.

Finding Your Rhythm

Honoring Your Rhythm

Mining Your Rhythm

Recovering Your Rhythm

Appreciating Your Rhythm

Acknowledging Your Rhythm

Finding Your Rhythm

Sometimes finding your rhythm is a lifelong process and often it is a changing one.

Creative rhythms transform and spiral as we grow. Our rhythm goes through a series of patterns as we journey through life.

When you find your rhythm, you will know because it is when you experience the feeling of flow.

Honoring Your Rhythm

Boundaries are key to managing your time and energy when working on creative projects.

Taking time to understand them and create healthy boundaries is vital for creativity to flourish.

Knowing when to plow ahead, when to take a rest, and when to move on are key factors in honoring your rhythm. 

Mining Your Rhythm

Once you get a sense of where your rhythm lies and already have a good practice for honoring it, you can begin to cultivate your routines to help you build upon your skills and really play with various creative techniques.

When we mine our rhythm, we begin to build muscles that we can use for greater creative projects or for our long-term career choices.

Recovering Your Rhythm

One of the hardest challenges is recovering our creative rhythm after a life event or after we've allowed our rhythm to diminish.

To recover our rhythm is to recover from what is commonly known as a "block."

There are some strategies that can help.

Appreciating Your Rhythm

When you appreciate your creative rhythm, you lessen the chances of having to recover it.

Gratitude works wonders for mood and perspective and when applied to creativity can make you more resilient.

Acknowledging Your Rhythm

When we acknowledge our rhythm, we make known to ourselves when we experience our own individualized ebb and flow.

For some people this can look like seasonal creativity where we create in the spring, look for feedback in the summer and then showcase our work in the fall.

It is best to declare our differences and accept our rhythm for what it is. The best way to do this is to write a credo.

Interested in working with someone who can help you with your creative rhythm?

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Jocelyn P. Kellyjocelyn@realizingyourcreativelife.com

Writer. Artist. Publisher. Clarion West Alumni.

Creativity Coach. Enthusiastic Spark. Supporter of Good

Cheer and Good Will. Insightful and often witty.

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