Thoughts come to us in the same manner that we project thoughts. The thoughts you think have their genesis in the giant library of the universal mind and become part of your thought process because you have somehow been stimulated to think them through your experience.

All thought is creative and every thought we have goes out into the pool of collective consciousness and is received from the pool of collective consciousness. Our thoughts create at one level and are not as powerful as words or action, which build on the initial thought in order to manifest that thought into our reality. Everything starts with the thought.

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Does the word “Motivation” have a charge for you? Do you notice that when you get ready to begin certain projects curious personal behaviors emerge? Have you noticed the desire to stop reading this article altogether? This topic can be a bit overwhelming.

How many of us have listened to “motivational speakers” and wanted someone to just, oh, I don’t know, perhaps shush them up!!! Or how about reading books on motivation and finding that you don’t even have the motivation to finish the book? As a human and a coach this issue comes up often. The common thread is that many of us have behaviors that seem to undermine the desire to complete something that we really want to do.

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It can be incredibly frustrating and isolating when you’re creating on your own for days, weeks, months on end, without seeing any real impact that your creative efforts are having.

Have you felt sometimes that no-one in the world even KNOWS you create, let alone cares?

These kind of feelings can be very demotivating, as expressing ourselves and connecting with others are major reasons why we create.

Take heart though, your creating is not in vain. Here’s a story to give you some hope:

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Creating regularly is a great achievement for any of us who are creative.

Stepping up time and time again and showing that you’re committed to this creative life, putting in the hours at the page, canvas, desk, studio or laptop, is to be applauded.

If this is something you’re already doing, then congratulations, you’re achieving a huge amount by living with this discipline.

And yet, there is more to a fulfilling life of creativity than just showing up.

Maybe you show up and write a poem every day. And these are beautiful, touching, richly detailed poems that you’re proud of.

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Finding your creative groove is another way of saying finding your creative voice, expressing yourself in a way that’s purely and honestly you, sharing the things you’re compelled to share with the world through your art and creative work.

Another, equally important, part of your creative groove is creating in a style and a rhythm that works well for you and allows you to create as freely as possible. This includes having (take a deep breath here) habits and systems in place that allow you to be as creative as possible.

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To become great in the field of business or any other field, the concentrated use of the imagination is required. To be able to benefit from this extra-ordinary capacity which we all possess, we need to fully understand and then develop the imagination.

Napoleon Hill in his classic book, Think and Grow Rich, explains the two proficiencies of imagination, namely the synthetic, and creative imaginations. It becomes important to know exactly how each faculty works and learn that one is largely a component of the left-brain hemisphere and one a component of the right-brain hemisphere as is outlined by Denis Waitley in Seeds of Greatness.

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A couple of years ago, I was writing maybe 2 or 3 creativity articles a month. And even this small amount didn’t come easy.

I’d spend hours at a blank screen, trying to come up with new ideas for the ezine or article that was due the next day.

Painful.

It wasn’t a very relaxing situation to be in, and of course not very conducive to creating freely and easily.

This last month I’ve written about 35 articles.

So that’s an increase of more than ten times what I was writing before.

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How easy to you find it to focus on one creative project, and to really make some significant progress?

When’s the last time you really felt “That was a great session of creating, I really enjoyed it and feel I moved it on to the next stage”?

Most creative people struggle to get this focused. New ideas pour in constantly, and rather than stick with the project you’re working on, it’s so easy to just jump aboard the next interesting new wave and ride it until another new one comes along.

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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.

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Let me tell you a story about Dr. Finsen and the cat. Dr. Niels Ryberg Finsen is the famous “light cure” specialist who started to treat lupus (tuberculosis of the skin) with electric light in 1895. In 1903, he received the Nobel prize in medicine and physiology. One summer day, Dr. Finsen gazed outside his study window and saw a cat sunning itself on the roof of a shed. As he watched, the cat happened to rise and move a little in order to get out of the shadow cast by a house wall. A few minutes later, the cat moved again when the advancing sun lengthened the shadow. Amused and at the same time in a questioning mood, the scientist continued to watch the cat. A third, a fourth, and yet a fifth time he saw it change position to keep in the sunlight. He noted its attitude of complete relaxation, its evident feelings of contentment. The thought occurred to him “It must be that this cat is getting something out of the sunlight of great benefit to it. Would human beings get the same thing?” Thus, the story goes, Dr. Finsen began the studies that led to his Nobel prize winning “light cure.”

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