Being creative can be exhausting

Being creative can be exhausting. Unlike a light switch, you can’t turn it on or off, it just happens. Many times creative ideas come in waves, one right after another. Other times, it is like a proverbial desert, a wasteland. It is just for those occasions that I began writing my ideas down. I keep an electronic notebook that I can access on my smartphone, my iPad, or my computer since I always have, at least, one of them with me. I also keep a list of projects that I want to work on in the same electronic notebook. I just use a different tab for projects.

This practice works well for me and I was able to share some of those concepts in talking to another creative last night when we were talking about future projects. The one thing I do need to get a bit better at though is to write them down when I think of them. On too many occasions I get an idea and may not write it down until sometime later. It’s like trying to remember the details of a dream the next morning. You get the basic concept of the dream but you may have forgotten some of the more complex things.

Here is the exhausting part. I have so many ideas, concepts, and projects in mind and on my list that the challenge is getting them completed. As time goes by I end up getting involved in another project or concept. Whew! I run out of time and steam. This doesn’t even count my so-called 9-5 gig. I’m not complaining. I truly enjoy the creative challenge. In fact, I enjoy the creative challenge so much that I took on another project which is writing this blog daily at 4 AM.

Join me in the creative mindset, and start your own form of the creative log book. As you work on completing the concepts or creating the content don’t forget to catalog the resulting works of art.