Getting Unstuck - Letting Your Inner Decorating Diva Shine Through

My clients and students think that I was born with a flair for color, placement and a keen eye for design - creative traits they believe they lack. Of course they don’t immediately believe me when I tell them that creativity is a trait that they can nurture and foster themselves. If I could learn how to mix, match and coordinate colors, fabrics and textures, layout a room visually in my mind and accessorize without fear then they could too. The key, and this is the most important part, is that you have to get unstuck - you have to allow yourself to be creative again.

As children we are extremely creative. As a matter of fact my favorite author John Maxwell in his book Thinking For A Change quotes a very insightful passage from the book Say Yes to Your Potential by Skipp Ross:

A survey was done to discover the creativity level of individuals at various ages. After all the testing, the statistics indicated that 2 percent of men and women who were in their forties were highly creative. As they looked at younger people, the results emerged that 2 percent of the thirty-five-year-olds were highly creative; 2 percent of thirty-year-olds were highly creative. This went on down to each age group until they reached the seven-year-old children. Ten percent of them were highly creative. However, further study showed that 90 percent of the five-year-olds were highly creative. Between the ages of five and seven, 80 percent of us who are highly creative develop an image, a picture, an attitude that we are not creative, and begin to deny that particular part of our God-given equipment.

Amazing isn’t it? By the time we are seven years old our creativity is effectively destroyed by some external force. I think what separates those who are highly creative and those who have long ago forgotten their ability to be creative is fear. Fear of rejection and being mocked for your ideas. Of course that is my opinion, I’d love to hear yours.

Anyhow, I am making it my mission to get you unstuck and to help you rediscover your creative talents. I will be posting a series of articles over the next few weeks that will be instrumental in the process of unearthing your creativity so that you can become a super-creative -completely -unstuck-full-of-great-ideas-and- inspirations decorating diva. Stay tuned.

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