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Welcome 2023 🌱✨

I’m starting to write the first blog post of 2023! I wasn’t that excited when I was planning this post, but when I looked at the previous similar blog posts , that same feeling came back. As you can see in the post, there is a board. While reading , you can answer the questions that I will ask with paper and pen in any way you want, work on the same board, and/or you can place the answers by creating another board by designing it the way you like, similar to board I shared. 🤓 I used some symbols so that the questions and the board support each other, but as I wrote, you are in one of the best times to be creative. 🌟

📍 Why is the new year important?

The new year, especially the beginning of the year, is one of the most well-known times to set goals and focus on dreams. New chapters are forming in our lives, both chronologically and mentally. Of course, we may have other mile stones, but the subject of today’s post is the beginning of the year. ☺️

While determining your New Year’s goals, you can ask yourself the following questions and fill in your board. I wish you a happy new year again and I wish that the things on your board come true faster than you think. ✨🌱🌳

1. By focusing on which 6 goals/dreams will make 2023 as you want?✨

2. Other than the goals/wishes you have chosen, what would you like to accomplish as you enter 2024?🌟

2. What makes these 7 goals/dreams special from others?❤️

2. What keeps you on track in all circumstances while reaching these goals/dreams?🚲

3. What steps will you take to achieve these and when?💬

4. What will help you in taking these steps?

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Creativity ✨

🌱

Creation

Creating

These words may be some of the most reflective of human nature. Even in the simplest way, it has a meaning. While cooking in our daily lives, we mix and cook more than one different ingredient. Or, while writing something, we draw/write something that is not there on the paper with the ink of the pen.

As you have read, creativity exists in some forms in every aspect of our lives. Even when we are not aware of it, we are surrounded by things we have created. Recently, I watched the “Creativity” episode of the “The Mind, Explained” documentary series on this very subject, and as a person who lives with drawings and colors, it inspired me a lot.

What is creativity according to the documentary?

Creativity isn’t as mystical and hard to find as we think, it’s a muscle. With practice, that muscle gets stronger and becomes part of our routine in a way that feels natural.

How to be creative?

As I just wrote, creativity gets stronger with practice. However, there is a very important question that helps the process here, “What if?”. If creativity is a formula, it is to combine things in different and new ways. This question also adds a sense of curiosity to the process.

You can see another creative point of view in improvisation. Improvisation performers increase their creativity with the “yes, and…” technique. With this technique, people listen to each other during improvisation, add their own thoughts, and a performance that is the common product of everyone is created. In other words, people work with each other in an environment that is open to communication and people don’t judge others.

The difference between creativity and imagination

Imagination is one of the starting points of creativity. Every creative person uses their imagination, but not every imaginative person can be creative. Focused imagination makes a person creative.

How to focus? What increases creativity?

First of all, keeping the sense of curiosity will start many things. Curiosity creates a field of exploration and, as a result, creativity. If I were to convert that into a shape as well, it would be a circle representing a loop. The more we explore, the more creative we become and strengthen this cycle. But it is also worth remembering that the creative process is not a straight up line. The important thing in this process is to stay determined and be joyous. Being determined moves you forward, while joy allows you to solve setbacks in the easiest way possible.

Apart from this, the technique we call sleeping on it is also very useful. To put it another way, it’s about letting things go according to flow and making more accurate observations. Sometimes this really means leaving it for the next day or other days, sometimes it can be daydreaming to hear yourself and see next possible steps better.

Finally, as I wrote above, focusing is one of the important ways to increase creativity. Curiosity and focus are one of the most important factors of the formula. If we don’t think about it and take steps, a thought that can fade. We have to work on it and define it. Of course, focusing methods can be a very personal thing. Therefore, ways that will make the creative journey enjoyable will always be useful. Accordingly, I would like to ask you one last question; What makes you joyous all the time? ✨

Note: Anyone who has watched the documentary and wants to watch it, please share your ideas with me via serraispahani@gmail.com or my Instagram profile.☺️

The Mind, Explained, Creativity , https://www.netflix.com/tr/title/81098586 *

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