Finding ways to recharge your creative spark and inspire yourself is not only worthwhile for growth, but it's also imperative. Here are five tips for re-inventing your creative relationship with your craft. we can just as easily find ourselves growing bored and settling into complacency as the novelty of what was once new wears off. This can pose a challenge, especially if we love what we do, and want to have a long-term career in one field.

 

Finding ways to recharge your creative spark and inspire yourself is not only worthwhile for growth, but it's also imperative.

 

Here are five tips for re-inventing your creative relationship with your craft.

 

- 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐭

If you’re feeling burnt out and uninspired, know that "this too shall pass" -- but only with dedicated action. This feeling you have is serious, and it deserves your attention.

Your career fulfillment is important, and writing off your brewing discontent as a bad week or a low month could be doing you a disservice. Take accountability for how you’re feeling and realize that nothing is wrong with you! It’s in our nature as human beings to need challenge and change.

 

- 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦

Remember when you first started out in your field of choice? There was such magic in everything; every spreadsheet was Mt. Everest, every meeting was an Olympic event and every sale was the greatest success you’d ever seen. Ask yourself: what was it about those days that was different? Perhaps you celebrated your successes more than you do now, and all you need is to add that ritual back into your life. Or maybe you actively challenged yourself to hit higher and higher goals and you haven’t done that in a while. Regardless of what’s changed, one thing is generally true: we often forget to dream as boldly as we did when we first started out. Don’t be afraid to set goals that seem outlandish or impossible.

 

- 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩

Take a trip somewhere work-related that will give you a larger view of the impact your role has on the rest of your organization. Perhaps you’re a sales rep and you want to visit your distribution centers, or you may be a baker who wants to travel to the oldest bakery in Europe and study their core processes. Widen your lens to what is possible and gain inspiration from the masters around you.

 

- 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐲

If it’s possible, take a day to work remotely in an unconventional environment. Perhaps it’s a coffee shop, an airport, or a public library. The weirder the location, the better. Disrupting your neural pathways in this way can lead to some pretty astounding breakthroughs.

 

- 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥

You are a pioneer. You are a philosopher of your craft. If you don’t ask the questions, who will? Keep a little journal (on paper, a computer, or on your phone) where you can write down all your burning questions about what is possible. “What if we tried making this in-house instead of outsourcing it?” “What if we focused more on the aesthetics than we ever have before?” As you start answering these questions, check them off. You don’t need to answer all of them; all it takes is one revolutionary idea to inspire your work again.

 

Source: Entrepreneur