Just make everything up

Just make everything up

Sometimes in my seminars I will ask the people in the audience to raise
their hands if they think of themselves as "creative." I've never had
more than a fourth of the audience raise their hands.
I then ask the people how many of them were able to make things up
when they were younger—make up names for their dolls, make up a
game to play, make up a story for their parents when the truth looked
less promising.

All hands go up.

So, what's the difference? You made stuff up as a child, but you're not a
creative adult? The difference is that we have charged the word "creative" with meaning something truly extraordinary. Picasso was creative. Meryl Streep is creative. Wyclef Jean is creative. But me?

So one of the ways to get started creating goals and action plans is to
just "make them up," like you did as a kid. Think of creating in simpler
terms. Think of it as something all humans do very easily. French
psychologist Emile Coue said, "Always think of what you have to do as
easy and it will be."

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