4 Ways to Activate Your Creator Mode
(You want to be in this mode!)
“If we can free ourselves of the limited emotions of the past, we can use that energy to create a new future.” — Dr. Joe Dispenza
I believe in the potential of every single one of us. I believe we are able to achieve goals we once never even dreamed about.
But what I else believe is that we need to be a creator instead of a consumer. We have to be givers instead of takers. We choose what we want to be daily in every moment.
If you want to be an achiever, a maker, a creator of your future then go through the following four steps.
- Realize, you are in control.
- Improve your self-awareness.
- Get up early.
- Invest in yourself.
You are in control
“Every moment, you make three decisions. What am I going to focus on? What does it mean? What am I going to do?” — Tony Robbins
Your life comes down to your decisions and the decisions you let others make for you. There is exactly nothing in your life you couldn’t change or cannot change.
I got aware of my control after I learned exactly what I wrote above. I started questioning my life. I started questioning the system. I started questioning the people who “won in life”.
The most important lesson I learned was they all worked for the milestones they achieved. They are normal like you and me but they strengthened their mind and improved every day. They focused and did what they wanted to do.
So can we! It all starts in the mind and if the mind is set up for growth and action you will be able to do whatever you want.
“Your Legacy is written by yourself. Make the right decisions.” — Gary Vaynerchuk
Improving your self-awareness
“Being self-aware is not the absence of mistakes, but the ability to learn and correct them.” — Daniel Chidiac
If you want to be a creator you want to prepare yourself for failure. You have to try and fail all over again and again. Self-awareness is the courage to act on your goal although this takes a lot of time and effort.
Get to know yourself. Find out who you want to be and thus who you really are. But be careful you don’t set it without further questioning.
When I was about 17 years old I thought I knew what I wanted. I tried to accomplish a “life without stress” — whatever that means — and I wanted to be happy. I still want to be happy in some way but my mindset changed completely.
I deeply believe it’s not about happiness, it’s about meaning. In principle it is nothing wrong with being happy. But most people think about happiness in terms of ease and comfort. So they strive for ease and comfort and that is not the area where meaning is found.
Working on your self-awareness by improving in a direction you adjust daily is important to get to know yourself. Be open for change and create your own reality from your own values and beliefs.
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they disctract themselves with pleasure.” — Viktor Frankl
Getting up early
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” — Benjamin Franklin
Starting my day the way I want it to start is the absolute prerequisite for a day of creating. To start my day the way I want, independent of what the rest of the world does or what type of obligations I have, it is absolutely necessary to get up before the world does.
As I began to attend university my rythm of sleep wasn’t really a rythm. Because of the different starting times of my courses I used to get up at different times. I was a slave to my outer circumstances from the very beginning of my day.
Nearly five years later I realized getting up early brings so many advantages. At the moment I am used to get up at 6 am. Thus I have at least two hours of creative creating time every morning independent of what the rest of the world does.
The most important feeling I got out of this routine is that I to control and create my day by myself. Thinking in terms of this mindset brought me further benefits. I didn’t look for any job. I looked for a job which fits to my purpose and fosters myself. I looked for a job with meaning.
I see a purpose in each of my actions.
“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” — Richard Whately
Investing in yourself
“The best investement you can make is in yourself.” — Waren Buffett
To be a creator you must have something to give. You cannot create something from nothing. You can only give as much as you have. So as a giver, as a creator you have to grow constantly.
Especially since I started writing I must be able to count on my daily growth. If I wasn’t make progress my articles would be quite boring after some weeks or months.
By investing in yourself you implement a so called force function. A force function is something that forces you to action and thus growth. Learning something new with the pressure of investing money in yourself previously will have a significantly better results than learning the same stuff for free.
Since I started with a speed reading course about two years ago learning and personal growth is a fixed part of my life. There wasn’t any time in which I didn’t do online courses or didn’t read books.
The intention of a creator is to predict his future. So living in the past is not an option a creator chooses. But if you don’t learn new things and only deal with past ocasions you live by definition in the past. Thus learning and growing are the absolute standard of a creator. By investing in yourself your personal progress will accelerate.
“Life is about growing, learning, and becoming. You cannot grow, learn, or become if you cannot embrace the changes in your life.” — Steve Rizzo
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