Creativity is one of most underutilized commodities that we possess. If you want to gain leverage with anything and everything in your life, it is imperative that you develop your creative muscle. From expressing yourself artistically, to cultivating your relationships, to unlocking your imagination on dreaming big about your life and wants, to troubleshooting a broken printer. Creativity can take you a long way.

I developed the Tech of Creativity as part of my Doctorate Studies at the Peace Theological Seminary and College of Philosophy. I discovered that through accessing and exercising my creativity I was able to gain a huge amount of energy to leverage the things that I wanted to create in my life. Growing and expanding as a poet and a performer was the ultimate bonus, but how my life flourished, and how this Technology has transformed others is why I am committed to practicing it, sharing it, teaching it and writing about it.

What is the Tech of Creativity?
It is a simple practice of dedicating yourself to engaging in some type of creative endeavour regularly.

On paper and in action it is really very simple, which is the good news. However, my spiritual teacher, in describing many of his teachings, would say: “I said it was simple, not easy”. Sometimes we dismiss the simple, because it appears too easy. But the power of this program is in it’s simplicity.

There are 3 core activities.
1. Create. 2. Nurture. 3. Inspire.

1. Create:
def: make, cause to become, bring into existence, be engaged in a creative activity, produce.

You spend time on actually creating something. Writers write. Photographers shoot. Painters paint. Dancers dance. This is free flow, no agenda. Time to explore, express, release. No judgment, no critical thinking just you, pulling things from the invisible. It will sometimes be good, sometimes bad. But this is not the time to decide. There will be plenty of time for that later, now is the time to do and play.

2. Nurture:
def: foster, help develop, help grow, raise, nourish.

Now is the time to spend on reviewing your work, where you decide what is deserving of more of your attention. (Ideally this would not be the work you have just created. I suggest letting that breathe. Of course if you fired up, go right ahead.) Writers review, edit and proof their work. Photographers review, refine, fix etc. Painters work with an aim to complete, mount, frame. Dancers and musicians, practice technique, rehearse.

3. Inspire:
def: heighten or intensify; prompt: serve as the inciting cause of, cheer, revolutionize.

You spend time on ways you would like to share your work with the world. This may be creating something fairly significant like developing a website or a public presentation to showcase your work, or simply creating handmade gifts or cards for your family at Christmas time. The creativity cycle requires an outlet in order to maintain its flow.

Is that it?
Yip, that is pretty much it.

The pivotal aspect of the Tech of Creativity is the commitment to spend a little on each of these 3 activities, all the time. I prescribe 10 minutes of each a day, for people who want a radical personal (r)evolution in a short amount of time. For most people, just 10 minutes on one of these or a combo of these will be powerful and remarkable. The good news is, if you skip a day you can catch up.

Do I have to be artist?
No. Basically you can pick any area of your life that you identify as something you want to develop and start there. Write to me if you get stuck or don’t know where to start.

What if I don’t have a “thing“?
Write to me and I will get you started… or better yet….click here.