Where does creativity come from?

Over the past month, I’ve addressed some of the bigger questions we get to ask ourselves.

Questions like:

Who am I?
How do I serve?
What do I do next?

Of course, the field of education calls to me each and every day. Since volunteering as a tutor for migrant families in Santa Barbara County back in 1992, to donating my summer to a bilingual school in Argentina in 1997, to being selected as a “Teacher of the Year” [while teaching high school] in 2000, I have known it was calling to work in the teaching field.

When I left formal education, and worked as a consultant from 2000-2006, and since then starting my own coaching and leadership development firm in 2007, I have further solidified my resolve to be the guy who shares good information.

It is my intention, my goal, and my calling to create learning opportunities the help people reach beyond their current experiences and comfort zones; and, achieve more of what they want out of their lives.
To do all of that, I have found, it is imperative that I invite creativity and innovation into my life. That is here this post started.

One day I wrote in my idea journal the following:

How do I create the space to create?
What do I have to let go of, get rid of or do to gain the area I will need to be more innovative?

Over the years, I have come up with my own ideas on clearing space to be creative. It will be great if you share your ideas. Please leave some comments below!

Comments

[Robert]

I spend a few minutes each day engaged in something that I have no prior experience with.

I often do this by following a web link to something that normally I would skip over. Sometimes I spend 15 minutes researching a company or industry that I've never looked at before.

By thinking about how this new (to me) thing could influence or improve past and current projects I frequently create new ideas.