Yes. You read the title right. Today we are going to push your head back up into the clouds like it used to be.

You may have heard the exact phrase while growing up, “get your head out of the clouds,” or something like it. What does it mean? It means that you need to stop day dreaming and get to work. Buy why, you ask? Well, you parents or teachers were only looking out for you when they said it, but it usually doesn’t do any good to reinforce the belief. Most people around you stopped dreaming along time ago. They found that it was easier to roll through life on autopilot. Go or don’t go to college. Get a job. Then put your head down in a submissive manner and set engines to medium speed. So it’s no surprise that there were so many teachers (the bad ones) who told you this. A dreamer today is rare. You would have had to have survived this onslaught of adversity and come out shining to still possess this quality.

But don’t fret. I can help you again float back up into that cloud filled sky of creativity, intrigue, growth, inspiration, etc… All you have to do is open your mind.

The only thing you have to do to get your mind back in this mindset is to focus on experiencing life in your own unique way, and stop following a path. Stop listening to what you friends or neighbors are doing and follow your heart. Do you like to write? - Then write. Don’t let that voice in the back of your head tell you it is too difficult or not worth your time. Express yourself in anyway that you feel fit.

Here are some quotes to set your mind on fire:

Michael Korda

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Seneca

What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.

You’re either here because you lost your drive to finish something, or you finally gave up on it. Well, luckily I’m here to help you never get stuck again.

We have all had it happen to us, we start something with so much motivation, and then somewhere down the line we lose it. It might be the stress of seeing it to completion that pushes motivation out the door and makes room for more stress. Then again it could just be that the project doesn’t look as appealing as it did two weeks ago. Whatever the case, you need to make change, and you need to make it now. Stop making excuses about difficulty, learning curves, expenses, etc… If you have a will and a passion for it, you can do it.

Here are some things that I do to stay motivated when I feel it starting to slip and fade:

Take a Break

Even though you’d like to show the world how quickly and efficiently you can complete this awesome project, take a break and recollect on what you have already done. Your mind needs time to process what you feed it. So go for a walk or do something off topic for fifteen to thirty minutes. Not only does it strengthen you ability to return to the project again and again, but it might just pop another amazing idea in your head while you relax.

Reinforce by Redefining

Pull up your word processor and outline your goals again. You might have already have done this when you first started the project, but your mind changes and so do your goals. Reevaluation helps you stay on track while you tediously work into the wee hours of the night. When you set goals and complete them, you have achieved something. You have achieved something that you had written or planned- that my friend is one of the best feelings in the world.

Journal

I have learned that it doesn’t matter when you do it, but only that you do it. Journaling is the best way to archive your thoughts away and make sense of everything that happened that day or week. Instead of carrying a burden, stress, or thought with you all week, you can instead write it or type it out and always come back to it later. You wouldn’t believe what a relief this will give your mind after you do it for a day or two. Another thing to realize about journaling is that you don’t ever have to share these thoughts with anyone. I have a folder on my computer called, (as you would have guessed) “Journal.” I never go back and read my previous entries, but just keep adding to the folder.

Well I hope this information has given you some proven steps to making you motivation muscle stronger than ever before. If you have any other ideas or tricks that work for you to stay motivated, feel free to comment below.

Looking at the world in a different way is a great way to become more creative. Take for example the way that children look at the world around them. Everyday they see something completely new and attempt to make sense of it based on their own experience. Yet, as the years pass many of us learn to block out or ignore things which seem unimportant in order to make more time for what we think matters.

Today you are going to look at what you haven’t been looking at. Even though this might seem simple enough, it sometimes isn’t for a lot of people. The reason it is sometimes difficult is because you have to change your perception about the world to look at uncommon objects in uncommon ways.

One way to change perception is find an object such as… a pen resting on your desk, and imagine that you are only one millimeter tall and walking around on top of it. Watch out, you might slide off its slippery surface. But don’t stop there; let yourself fall to the desk. Get yourself up and run across the desk to the stack of CDs teetering on the edge.

So you see, it is actually really simple when you try it. Some people might think it is either childish or pointless, but it is often the best way to brainstorm or just generally improve creativity.

What Inspired me to Write this?
A continual dream to be more creative everyday.