THE TOP 10 DECISIONS THAT LEAD TO CREATIVE SUCCESS

Deciding is the most critical habit of any successful creative career

1.DECIDE TO CREATE SOMETHING

One reason creatives suffer over deciding what to create, is they haven’t first truly decided to create something.

Clients sometimes come to me having hit a block. Or a plateau.

Should I quit, they ask.

I tell them to take the decision to quit off the table. For now.

And guess what? Miraculously ideas begin to percolate. Inspiration wafts in. The creative knots starts to unkink.

In creativity questions are the whole game. Love the questions. But if the question is should I quit is taking up all the room the real questions get squeezed out.

Should I quit is the artist’s version of suicidal ideation.

So make the decision to do something. And move on to the other decisions.

Yes. It can be scary to decide to do something if you don’t know what that something is going to be. You enter a liminal space. Between these two decisons. It’s uncomfortable. And in some ways — deciding to be comfortable with being uncomfortable is one of the most helpful creative decisions you can make.