Smallbizmke ThinkTank | What Inspires You to Be Creative?

Tonight’s ThinkTankers discussed continuing the creative process. What is creativity to them? How do they continue to be inspired? What if you are on a deadline and the inspiration isn’t coming easily?

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Find ideas for continuing the creative process below!

Sara Deacon

“noun -the state or quality of being creative. the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination: the need for creativity in modern industry; creativity in the performing arts. the process by which one utilizes creative ability: Extensive reading stimulated his creativity.”
“Journaling in the morning along with other structure I’ve added to my daily habits has helped to open up space for the creative impulse to run into.”
“Either something else has to be produced first, like Anne said, and sometimes it’s something I need to experience or learn before the thing I need to create can be born.”

Tracy Champagne

“because I want the result”
“and there is a sense of achievement”
“Books always inspire me to be creative”
“and then… there is creating your future :)”
“it does take a lot of creativity to problem solve and on demand usually”
“what about the too much creativity , lol…that Is where the discipline needs to come in”
“FEAR, FEAR, FEAR”

Kim Knaak

“I am least creative when I am forced”
“I find myself producing – but it’s not my best, or most creative work if I don’t have inspiration behind it”

Anne Richie

“The Artist’s Way – A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron.”

Jon Goltz

“When you realize not every situation fits you.”
“Reading has given me creativity from time to time. It was a book that got me thinking about entrepreneurship, especially within the sports world.”

Bill Sargent

“Creativity is taking two things that were not connect, maybe totally abstract, and combining them in a brand new way.”

Dwight Lumaque

“What MOTIVATE my creativity is the meditative effect of prayer. Like, if I ask for a solution to a problem that has not been made yet, I pray for an answer.”
“For me, problem solving is the best result of creativity.”
“Needs does come in demand from everyday life. And it takes a lot of creativity to figure out the solution.”

Caryn Willens

“Creativity is partly problem-solving, partly meditation, partly Divine Inspiration”

Doug Williams

“Creativity in business can come when your client has an issue they can’t figure out and you come up with a solution for them.”