I'm Jody Moore and this is Better Than Happy Episode 168, Accessing Creativity.

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This is Better Than Happy and I'm your host Jody Moore.

Hello everybody!

Welcome to Episode 168. I have a really fun episode in store for you today.

I want to talk to you about creativity.

I want to talk to you about how to access your own creativity and specifically we're going to speak to some of the blocks that get in our way when we're trying to be creative.

I want to mention first of all that I do believe that we are creative beings.

That we have this desire or drive or need within us in some way to be creative.

We are created after our Heavenly Father. He created us in his image and he is of course the ultimate creator.

He created us. He created the earth, everything in it.

I think it's part of our makeup if you will to have a desire to create, to put something into the world that didn't exist before, to put our unique spin on something.

I think it's maybe a form of giving back but I think even more than that it's a form of self-expression.

It's a need that I think is important to pay attention to and to make sure that you're nurturing.

Now the way that you meet that need and nurture that desire within you doesn't really matter and it's different for all of us.

It can look like a whole bunch of different things.

I used to sew a lot and I really liked sewing and I could tell that sewing kind of met that desire that I had within me to be creative.

It was fun. I didn't ever do it professionally or for money. I wasn't that good.

I just did it more for my own enjoyment and to make something that didn't exist before.

Now that I have this business, I don't really so very often although I am starting to get my sewing machine out and sew a little bit more.

My daughter is going to maybe start sewing so that will be fun.

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