The biggest issue that my creativity coaching clients struggle with is having enough time to create.

“Dan, of course I’d love to create more, and spend more time on creative projects. But I just don’t have time!”

As long as you don’t feel you have enough time to create that’s what will be true. And that’s how you’ll act and live your life.

All the while you believe that you’re not in control of your time, well, that will be true for you too. You won’t be in control of your time.

It’s easy to see time as a universal, intangible and mysterious thing that none of us can ever hope to tame. Of course it’s true you can’t stop time, or actually make time go any slower.

But what you CAN do, and what is so easily overlooked, is you can CHOOSE how to spend your time.

Every second of every minute of every hour of every day is yours to decide how to best use it. Yes you have basic needs like sleeping and eating and earning money to live. But you can choose when you fit these into the rest of your life.

Does everyone, around the world, work at exactly the same time? No. Does everyone around the world sleep for the same amount of time, and at the same time of day? No.

Once you realise this simple fact, that YOU control your life, and only YOU can make the choices that you wish to make, then time – or “lack of time” - becomes so much less significant.

What does “I don’t have enough time to create” REALLY mean?

It means: “I’m not prepared to prioritise creating. I’m choosing instead to spend my time doing things other than creating.”

There’s no judgement attached to this, it’s your life to live. But if you take nothing else from reading this article, realise that “I don’t have enough time to create” is not the real issue.

As soon as you reframe this as “I’m choosing not to prioritise creating” you’re instantly back in control.

Now you can take the logical next step, and remind yourself: “I can choose how I spend my time. If I want to have more time to create, I have to make creating a higher priority than some of the other things in my life.”

It really doesn’t need to be any more complicated than that.

What less significant things can you drop for 15 minutes a day and instead prioritise that time as time for you to create? Make a list right now. Then tomorrow, make the choice to change the priority of your creativity, act upon it, and start creating…

Would you like to find out more about how to increase YOUR creativity?

Then get your FREE copy of Creativity Coach Dan Goodwin’s powerful and practical “Explode Your Creativity!” Action Workbook when you sign up to the FREE twice monthly ezine “Create Create!”. Visit the website now: www.CoachCreative.com

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