Do you consider yourself creative?

I'm Kelly Wilkins here with Anita Joyce, and this is decorating tips and tricks.

Learn to be more creative at home.

I think everybody's creative, and I hate to hear it when people say, I'm not creative

because I think everyone is. I agree. I agree. I think we say we're not creative and I used to

think I wasn't creative. And in fact, I was told I wasn't and people just made this assumption

because I was doing technical work. But what I found was when I separated myself from

that situation and did some of the things we're going to be talking about today, I found out I could

be creative. So you really thought you weren't creative because you wanted to be an artist. So what did

you think? Well, no, it's not, well, let me put it this way. It's not that I didn't think I was

creative, but when we would sit in these meetings and come up with ideas, I was usually the

one sitting there not really coming up with ideas. I felt like I was creative in an artistic sense,

but I really was not good at generating ideas. But once I became, once it became part of my habit to do a lot of

idea generation later on, it became a part of who I am. And now I'm pretty good at generating

ideas. So it's not that I was just inherently, I don't even think it's that I just have this

inherent ability to do it. I think I just did it a lot.

And that helped me to, you know, become more creative. But I don't want to get ahead of myself here.

Well, I mean, yeah, it's just like anything. I mean, you have to practice it. Okay. So let's talk about

getting creative and how did you get more creative and how do we suggest other people learn to be more

creative? Well, before we start, I think, I just think about what hurts creativity. And I'm thinking

boredom, routine, I think even unhappiness. And I think also the thought that you're not creative. I think all of those

things can really just start off putting you kind of in a bad place as far as creativity goes.

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