Leafing through a back issue of National Geographic Magazine, I spotted this little blurb about snow goggles, a true nod to creativity. I imagine the story goes like this…
Imagine frozen landscapes with brilliantly bright white tundras as far as the eye can see. If you don’t have snow goggles in an environment like that, you most likely won’t have your eyesight either. So, what’s a guy without snow goggles to do?
He’d have to think fast (this is where we count on creativity to help us out). Using his limited travel resources, he’d fashion goggles out of duck tape!

I talk about creativity often and this National Geographic blurb makes a great example of what I think about it. Creativity is not just for artists, creatives, and crafters. It’s part of all of us, every day. We may not be faced with icy tundra’s to conquer but we have real life to manage and creativity is the best tool we’ve got.

So often I hear, I’m not creative but yo are, your creativity grows with you!

When you were a child, say age 5 as I was in this picture, you would have exclaimed yes, I am creative, because you knew you could do anything, you could be anything you wanted to be. When I think of myself at age 5 the world was simple, I lived in the present moment and I was comfortable with me in a way I look back on fondly. I could be a pilot, a judge, a queen, or at that time Princess Leia or whatever I wanted to be and my creativity flowed free in the ways I played to emulate those big ideas. When I did art, I did it my way. I bet you did too. Then, we all got older and many factors came into play that better or worse and took us out of our 5 year old zones.

We likely for the next many years detached from our 5 year old principles but don’t worry, they grew with you! Your creativity is yours alone and it didn’t leave you, you just may have forgotten to tune into it.  Now, Take time to color, to Zumba, to play or run the way you did as a child, (as if you’d never run out of breath). Have a little abandon, your creativity has been waiting for you to come out and play. It’s ready to pick up where you left off. You are creative!

P.S. I created CReATE STUDIO when I was the most disconnected from my creativity. You’ve got this.