🎨 Fueling Your Creativity: The Art of Imaginative Living

The driving force behind everything you do, plus 5 simple ways to restore it

I don’t remember much about what I did academically in high school. But even now, 17 years later (🥴) I remember my favorite writing assignment.

It was simple: write about your dream house, getting as specific and granular as possible. My imagination took this seemingly simple prompt and ran.

The modern, 80% windows and black metal desert oasis I conjured in my mind’s eye had a retractable roof you could open to view the Sedona night sky.

The version of me I dreamt up in the essay enjoyed mornings on a garden patio to greet the sun. She worked at home from her spacious office (in 2005 before WFH was a thing!), and relaxed on enormous bean bag/couch hybrid furniture that, I’m pretty sure, only exists in my mind.

Photo by Kelsey Erin Sky

The House recently resurfaced in my consciousness. It got me thinking about its lasting impression on me, and why, to this day, dreaming about it evokes such potent feelings.

🧰Your Most Powerful Tool

Humans are innately creative and constantly creating. Every single moment is an act of creation, whether you realize it or not. I’d argue any action you take that produces something different than what you had before is an act of creation.

Go to work for a 5-hour shift? You just created 5 hours’ worth of pay. Exercise? You just created a stronger body and mind. Held the door for someone? You just created the energy of kindness.

All this creativity is driven by one extremely important mechanism… 🥁