Five Tips For Creating Your Ideal Creative Space

ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
The Honest Perspective
3 min readSep 14, 2021

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If you are looking for greater focus and productivity, creating space is the key.

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In a bustling coffee shop, in your car while you wait for a child, in an office, a library, or on your bed, where you create matters.

We all have fantasies of the perfect hideaway, stocked full of our favorite supplies (both of the snack variety as well as the endless books and pens we ‘need’), but for most that is not a daily reality. If the muse has chosen this free moment to grace us with her presence, then we had better find a place to take her that she won’t run screaming from and never return!

1.Pick a spot!
It doesn’t have to big a whole room, or even as much as a table all of your own, though if you have space for that then take it immediately. A designated shelf on a bookcase, a window ledge beside your favourite chair, and if space really is a problem, get a bag and fill it with your most essential items ready to move with you to wherever you can find when the mood and the moment coincide.

2. Keep the clutter to a minimum!
Don’t allow your space to become a dumping ground for things that you’ll get round to later, or as a space to store books or other materials. Take that stuff somewhere else, this is an active space you won’t need to do anything to when you finally get…

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ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE

Written by ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE

Writing on female experience, race, motherhood & self-development. Columnist at Green Parent magazine & Parenting Top Writer. Follow me on IG @adeola_moonsong.

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