Be More Creative - 5 Reasons To Let Go Of Trying To Be Perfect
When you're constantly hung upon being perfect in everything you create, it's not only exhausting, but it prevents you from enjoying and expanding your creativity in a whole of host of ways.
Here are 5 of the most valuable you can experience when you send your inner perfectionist packing.
1.
You find new rhythms in your creativity.
If you always dance to a fixed rhythm, you never hear any others.
In most latin music for example, like salsa, merengue and cha cha, there are multi layered rhythms.
If you're prepared to be open and listen, you hear a new richness to the music and different ways to dance.
It's the same with however you create, if you're prepared to let go of being perfect and be more open, you find new rhythms in your creativity that have always been there but you never heard before.
2.
You move on more quickly, so you create more.
If everything you create has to be perfect, you take so much longer to finish projects.
That's if you finish them at all.
You start with an enthusiastic sprint, which turns into what feels more like a crawl through treacle.
Instead of creating something that's "perfect", aim to create "the best I can create right now", then move on.
Then you allow yourself to move on and create the next creative project that's the best expression of your creativity today, and so on.
3.
You widen your creative range.
The longer you cling on to the need for perfectionism, the more limited your creative range becomes.
Perfectionism becomes addictive and ever contracting.
Before you realise it, even the work you were pleased with creating 6 months ago doesn't meet your ever more perfect criteria today.
The result is your creative range becomes more and more limited.
When you start to let go of the need to be perfect, your range expands again, and your creativity swells exponentially.
4.
You experiment with more freedom.
Creating with the need to be perfect forever looming over you is like trying to dance with your ankles bound together.
When you relax and let perfectionism go a little, you become more experimental, more free to create what you've always longed to create, rather than just the same old projects you know you can finish and make perfectly.
5.
You have more fun creating.
The creative life of a perfectionist is not much fun.
Your focus is always on getting thing exactly right - the end "product", rather than enjoying the creative process.
When you're prepared to make a mess you shift your focus to enjoying your creativity in the moment, whatever the outcome.
Not only do you have a lot more fun, but this new sense of pleasure and energy is reflected in what you create.
Which of these benefits would you most like to see in your creative life? What's the first step you can take today to let go of your perfectionist tendencies a little and free yourself to be more creative?
Here are 5 of the most valuable you can experience when you send your inner perfectionist packing.
1.
You find new rhythms in your creativity.
If you always dance to a fixed rhythm, you never hear any others.
In most latin music for example, like salsa, merengue and cha cha, there are multi layered rhythms.
If you're prepared to be open and listen, you hear a new richness to the music and different ways to dance.
It's the same with however you create, if you're prepared to let go of being perfect and be more open, you find new rhythms in your creativity that have always been there but you never heard before.
2.
You move on more quickly, so you create more.
If everything you create has to be perfect, you take so much longer to finish projects.
That's if you finish them at all.
You start with an enthusiastic sprint, which turns into what feels more like a crawl through treacle.
Instead of creating something that's "perfect", aim to create "the best I can create right now", then move on.
Then you allow yourself to move on and create the next creative project that's the best expression of your creativity today, and so on.
3.
You widen your creative range.
The longer you cling on to the need for perfectionism, the more limited your creative range becomes.
Perfectionism becomes addictive and ever contracting.
Before you realise it, even the work you were pleased with creating 6 months ago doesn't meet your ever more perfect criteria today.
The result is your creative range becomes more and more limited.
When you start to let go of the need to be perfect, your range expands again, and your creativity swells exponentially.
4.
You experiment with more freedom.
Creating with the need to be perfect forever looming over you is like trying to dance with your ankles bound together.
When you relax and let perfectionism go a little, you become more experimental, more free to create what you've always longed to create, rather than just the same old projects you know you can finish and make perfectly.
5.
You have more fun creating.
The creative life of a perfectionist is not much fun.
Your focus is always on getting thing exactly right - the end "product", rather than enjoying the creative process.
When you're prepared to make a mess you shift your focus to enjoying your creativity in the moment, whatever the outcome.
Not only do you have a lot more fun, but this new sense of pleasure and energy is reflected in what you create.
Which of these benefits would you most like to see in your creative life? What's the first step you can take today to let go of your perfectionist tendencies a little and free yourself to be more creative?
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