3 Ridiculously Easy Ways To Overcome Creative Block

Creative block comes to us all from time to time. You start feeling stuck with that blank canvas staring back at you. It can be incredibly frustrating, especially if you're a solopreneur who depends on your creativity for income.

However, it can be beneficial when it lets you think about and analyze your creative process, but it's more likely to leave you frozen in place, making no progress at all.

Here are three easy ways to overcome creative block that you can start doing today:

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1. Surround yourself with creative energy

It's the age-old adage: "You are what you eat." But it also applies to what you're looking at and who you're interacting with. If you find yourself stuck, start looking to your surroundings for inspiration. You never know when something beautiful will jump out at you and break that wall down.

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2. Put yourself in an unfamiliar environment

Creativity is all about making connections — taking two seemingly unrelated things and connecting the dots in unexpected ways. The more ideas we have in our heads, the more connections we can make. So if you're trying to get unstuck, change your scenery completely! Go somewhere that gets your gears turning, even if it's just across town or a few neighborhoods away from where you live now.

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3. Accidentally on purpose

Start by saying "yes" to every opportunity that comes your way, big or small. This helps put us in the mindset of being open to possibilities as opposed to shutting them out with excuses of why something isn't right for us.

Luckily, there are always answers to overcoming creative block and these 3 tips can help you out. To end with one of my favorite quotes: "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." -- Albert Einstein

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