Creativity and Coffee...

I have a question for you...

When are you most creative?

In the past I've written about Morning Motivation and how preparing for your day can boost you from average productivity to a powerful day...

And I must confess... at WORK I'm not horribly creative...

As I've mentioned before, I work in the world of IT and things like DNS and adjusting server notifications don't lend themselves to being horribly creative things...

That being said, I've obsevered a few interesting things that I associate with being creative.

But before I get into those I wanted to define creativity...

And for me, it's really on two levels. The first level is what I'm doing now... writing. I love to write and I love to teach, so I lump both of those into what I call "creativity" for myself. The second level of creativity is with my daughter... Since my daughter lives with me, it's a never-ending song, dance or way that we put on clothes... We make EVERYTHING fun!

So, really, my observances are a bit more personal... They are for the first level of creativity I just described... the "writing" or "art" place in my life. (I'll talk about that second level of creativity in another blog).

The first is coffee... I live in the Pacific Northwest and Coffee is kinda a big deal up here.

I always associate having black coffee with writing and working on my website...

The second is not having shoes... or specifically, being barefoot.

There really is something liberating about not wearing shoes and socks... maybe it's a subconscious thing that keeps me "grounded"... who knows?

I don't want to "read into" this too much, in other words, I don't think these are things that directly MAKE me creative... I really believe that we're all creative people on the inside.

And don't get me wrong, it's not like I take off my shoes and socks at a coffeeshop if I am writing! ha ha!

But the reason I mention these is simply out of observation.

In other words, these are things that I 'naturally' do when I'm at the peak of my creativity... Things that I don't even think about, but that happen on a regular basis.

I also noticed that I tend to get more creative things done in the morning. It tends to give me a good feeling about starting the day remembering that I created something... It doesn't matter if it's a Podcast or a blog entry, it's something that I did that helps others!

So, when are YOU most creative? Have you noticed that at a certain time of day?

Do you have a tendancy to actually DO something, like drink a favorite glass of juice or eat a power bar?

The reason I ask this, and the reason I am sharing, is so that we can learn from each other... We can take bits and pieces of what works for other creative minds and other Single Parents and make them out own.

As you're being your TRUE creative Self, remember that we're in this together, learning lessons along the way!

I'll talk to you soon,

Oh yeah, check out my YouTube site... I put up a new video the other day about investing for your children!