the way to a never-ending supply of creativity

Too often, we "save" the best of ourselves, thinking that if we use all our great ideas up at once we won't have anything left to say. Here are 3 ways to maintain a never-ending supply of creativity.

1. do what you love
First and foremost--make sure you are doing what you love. But I have to work to pay the bills, I can't do what I love, I have to do what pays!! True, bills are important. But so is your happiness. Happiness leads to health. Health leads to lower medical/weight-loss/therapy-shopping bills. Get my point? Shed what isn't working, it's stifling you. Hold onto your job (you need the money) and put your feelers out there. See what's available. In the mean time, start a hobby. What do you like? Start small, in your home. Invite friends and make a social network around your interests.

2. trust yourself
You've found your hobby, your interest. Trust your talent. If you like what you've created--jewelry, short story, wood work, exercise routine, etc.--then someone else out there will, too. Not that you need outside validation to carry on in your passion, but it doesn't hurt. Get your pieces out into the community. Enter an art show, make your hallway a gallery for a get-together, submit writing samples to contests. Have faith in yourself and your work. Go public with it!

3. use it all up
Each time you create, use all of your ideas--every last one of them. Don't hold back thinking that if you use all these ideas today that you will have nothing to use for tomorrow. There's only so much creative space in your brain, you can use it to hold onto old ideas or clear it out for new ideas.