| When you're constantly hung upon being perfect in | | | | creative range becomes. Perfectionism becomes |
| everything you create, it's not only exhausting, but it | | | | addictive and ever contracting. Before you realise it, |
| prevents you from enjoying and expanding your | | | | even the work you were pleased with creating 6 |
| creativity in a whole of host of ways. Here are 5 of | | | | months ago doesn't meet your ever more perfect |
| the most valuable you can experience when you send | | | | criteria today. The result is your creative range |
| your inner perfectionist packing. | | | | becomes more and more limited. When you start to let |
| 1. You find new rhythms in your creativity. If you | | | | go of the need to be perfect, your range expands |
| always dance to a fixed rhythm, you never hear any | | | | again, and your creativity swells exponentially. |
| others. In most latin music for example, like salsa, | | | | 4. You experiment with more freedom. Creating with |
| merengue and cha cha, there are multi layered | | | | the need to be perfect forever looming over you is like |
| rhythms. If you're prepared to be open and listen, you | | | | trying to dance with your ankles bound together. When |
| hear a new richness to the music and different ways | | | | you relax and let perfectionism go a little, you become |
| to dance. It's the same with however you create, if | | | | more experimental, more free to create what you've |
| you're prepared to let go of being perfect and be | | | | always longed to create, rather than just the same old |
| more open, you find new rhythms in your creativity | | | | projects you know you can finish and make perfectly. |
| that have always been there but you never heard | | | | 5. You have more fun creating. The creative life of a |
| before. | | | | perfectionist is not much fun. Your focus is always on |
| 2. You move on more quickly, so you create more. If | | | | getting thing exactly right - the end "product", rather |
| everything you create has to be perfect, you take so | | | | than enjoying the creative process. When you're |
| much longer to finish projects. That's if you finish them | | | | prepared to make a mess you shift your focus to |
| at all. You start with an enthusiastic sprint, which turns | | | | enjoying your creativity in the moment, whatever the |
| into what feels more like a crawl through treacle. | | | | outcome. Not only do you have a lot more fun, but this |
| Instead of creating something that's "perfect", aim to | | | | new sense of pleasure and energy is reflected in what |
| create "the best I can create right now", then move on. | | | | you create. |
| Then you allow yourself to move on and create the | | | | Which of these benefits would you most like to see in |
| next creative project that's the best expression of | | | | your creative life? |
| your creativity today, and so on. | | | | What's the first step you can take today to let go of |
| 3. You widen your creative range. The longer you cling | | | | your perfectionist tendencies a little and free yourself |
| on to the need for perfectionism, the more limited your | | | | to be more creative? |