EP 45 // Feeling Uninspired? 3 Ways You Can Find Creativity & Inspiration For Content Creation

I don't know about you, but there are times when unfortunate stressful situations come up and just stomp all over your flow of creativity or at the very least you're just finding yourself in this creative plateau when your creativity has just kind of dried up and you've tried all the things to get your creativity flowing again and just nothing seems to work. And maybe you even start to question what you're really doing is what you really should be doing. And it almost feels like it's forced rather than things just coming to you naturally.

So you might find it hard to focus on writing and planning content. And you might even find it hard to sit and complete even the most simplest of tasks, especially during the holidays when you have all this stuff to think about like possible travel plans, dinner plans, gift shopping, creativity and inspiration just kind of takes a backseat with so many other things on your mind in that moment. So today I'm sharing three ways to get over your creativity slump and how to get inspired again so you can continue to show up for your business and work with your creativity flowing.

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ly slash business growth community. There are a lot of times when, whether it be because of circumstances or motivation that I just start to feel very uninspired and things just start feeling very forced and feel more like a chore rather than running a business or doing house chores. I mean, you can pretty much make yourself feel however you want to be able about, however you want to feel about certain things. But when you feel very unmotivated to continue with something that used to light you up, you really start to question like, is this really my purpose?

Or is this just my fleshy, selfish decision to have this business? Or am I still anointed for it and I'm just having a dry season? When I have these seasons, it's hard for me to focus. The hardest part for me to focus is on writing and creating content when I have these moments.

So if you're stuck and you feel like I can't think of any kind of content to create, it's not because if you, you created everything for content and there's nothing left, it's because of your, you're lacking creativity. But if you aren't doing anything creative, you aren't going to be creative. If you're spending more time creating an ongoing list for yourself of what you need to create and over expecting of yourself to create a massive amount of content, you're going to lose your creativity.

So the first step is to stop tacking on obscene amounts of tasks daily and even weekly. This has been very difficult for me to do because usually when I start working on something, I can't stop and save my work on that one task and move on to the next. And when I get started, I usually don't want to stop working on that thing until it's just completely done. While it's good to have that kind of motivation, it's also bad because time management is so important to learn.

So you're not spending all of your available time on one single task. When it's your business, learning how to balance tasks and operate at a productive level is very critical to learn. So the first thing that we need to do is to stop pressuring yourself to write and create content. You can't force creativity.

And you really need to stop overexpecting yourself to crunch everything in all in one day to have things done. You can't meet unrealistic expectations like that. So you need to be honest about the time that you do have and what your schedule actually looks like. So create a daily schedule and stick to it Another reason why we start to get so unmotivated and uninspired is because we tend to go all in when something is new And I get it because I I done this many times and you have to, you really have to set boundaries for yourself.

So if you decide, okay, I'm going to work from 7am to 7, 3pm, then you really need to stick to that no matter what. if you chain yourself to your computer because of your list of all the things, of course you're going to get tired. You need to give your mind a break. And something else I've done is, and it also, it sounds pretty corny.

I reward myself if I get my tasks done. So for example, we're kind of a gaming family, more of my kids and my husband than I am. And they play to be competitive and I play more for fun. So the deal I made with myself is if I don't get a set task list done for myself the day those tasks are due, and my daily task list is pretty minimal, it's not a crazy obscene amount of tasks, then I don't get to play games.

And I know it sounds very silly, but this works for me, so I do it. So maybe you don't play games, but maybe you have a favorite TV show you like to binge or you like to go out on lunch dates with your biz besties. Whatever your rewarding system might look like for you, try it and see if it works. The second thing is take a break.

If you get caught up with the intention that you were going to prioritize content writing and you got your coffee ready and you sat down to work and you looked at your workflow and opened up your Google Doc and nothing is coming to mind and your mind feels all cloudy and you literally cannot think of anything to write and the blinking cursor is just taunting you. One thing is don't continue to sit there and waste time staring at the cursor. If you are uninspired completely, take a break, take an hour, make something to eat, read a book, or at the very least close out that tab and open something else that you can work on that does not require you to sit and write from scratch.

You can go update some old content with updated keywords or do some keyword research for future content. Find a task that you can do that doesn't require heavy thinking. If this is like a regular occurrence, because sometimes we can get completely unmotivated to do anything. So sometimes it's really hard to complete certain things.

The best thing that you can do is if you know you can sit and write and it's just a matter of discipline and putting that thing first on your list and getting it done so you can focus on other tasks for that day is really important And the third is to schedule days off And this might sound extremely obvious but it has to be said And I don know who needs this reminder but somebody does I did this when I started. I know how excited you are starting a new business or working on your business, but to avoid burnout.

And you will experience burnout even if you're excited to do all the things, but you have to still take time for yourself and not become a workhorse. there will be times when you're going to have to put in some extra hours when you don't want to and there are going to be times when you have to do more work than you had planned so the worst thing that you can do is right away dedicate too much time and too much work and not enough personal time for yourself self-discipline is going to have to really be put to work here you really get to decide what hours you work and what is non-negotiable but pick a couple of days to regularly take off and make it non-negotiable unless you had to move some things around and take different days off.

You need a couple of permanent days in there. The most important thing to remember is you are responsible for your workload, your schedule, and your time off and your self-care. If you are someone who gets easily overwhelmed with a workload of more than a few tasks, keep your daily task list minimal. It's a matter of listening to what you need and what capacity you can work in.

So if you start feeling forced to sit down and write out some content, research keywords or plan future content, and you just can't focus and feel so uninspired, take a break and don't put pressure on yourself to get creative. Take an hour. Focus on another task that doesn't take as much creativity. get that done and then go back to your writing piece and see how you feel then.

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