On Creativity

There are so many smart people with incredible things to say out there, and when I stumble upon them (online or otherwise), I'm enriched, challenged, inspired.

This week I seemed to stumble upon things concerned with creativity. Not a big surprise; that's pretty much what's been on my mind and in my heart for the past several weeks. Here are my favorites:

1. Jon Acuff's blog is quickly becoming one of my favorite reads. Check out this post on recognizing our own talent here. As a bonus, there's a short video at the end of the post called "Obvious to You. Amazing to Others" by Derek Sivers that got me thinking in a new way about my own self-doubt. After you read/watch that one, here's a great one on ways to stay creative. A challenge, to say the least, but one worth trying, I think.

2. This post about creativity by Kath Cunningham, author of The Long Walk Home blog. She's from the UK, so her perspective is a bit different from those of us in the US, but her ideas and her heart are in sync with my own, and I love reading what she has to say.
 

3. Procrastination. It's not a word I like to use much. In fact, I sort of cringe at it. Not for reasons you'd think, though. It's not because I am overly efficient, am always early, or am even particularly organized. I don't like it because I don't like that it's true about myself. But this video helped me think differently about procrastination this week, and (shock!) I've actually gotten things done. See it on YouTube here.