Entrepreneurs, how can you optimize your creativity? As a coach, this is the area I work with most often with founders and startups. This is why these 2 Ideas and 1 Playlist help you understand creativity and how to avoid postponing it.
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- Mark
1. Time To Inspiration
Our cars run better when we start them and let them warm up.
Our bodies perform better by stretching and warming up before we exercise.
But, when it comes to our creative time most entrepreneurs schedule it into a busy day and expect the moment we sit down for inspiration to strike. When it doesn’t show up on command we get frustrated and question our creative worth.
“What is my time to inspiration?” is the question you should be asking and understanding.
It takes time to enter into a creative state and feel our creativity flowing. And, each of us has our own unique amount of time it takes from when we sit down to when we hit a peak creative state.
By understanding your own personal “time to inspiration” you will better understand yourself and discover how to optimize your creativity.
2. Delayed vs. Postponed
We often use them synonymously, but they impact our goals very differently.
When a project, a release, or a celebration is delayed it’s late; easily measurable because a deadline is missed. Our typical strategy is to be nimble and work to get it back on track.
When you postpone you intentionally reschedule to take place at another time. Because not just the deadline was impacted but the overall goal of the project.
Having the ability to understand when to postpone versus delay is having the humility to know when the ego is dominating decision making.