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Keeping your passion and creativity alive requires more than just taking some break and refueling your creative juices. It's something that needs to be constantly practiced. Here are some tips to help maintain your creativity despite having a full-time shift in the office.
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1. Take Your Projects One At A Time
Working in a creative environment requires more than just innate creativity, especially if you are on a full-time shift. In reality, creative people need to allocate enough time crafting their masterpieces, and staying eight hours on the desk may not be the best method for creating such magnificent work.
Let’s admit it, office work and doing typical desk jobs in a cubicle kills creativity. Many of us believe that being creative is something that you are born with; that’s actually right. But just like any other skills, creativity should also be honed.
2. Rest On Your Rest Days (And Hours)
Now, if you are one of those creative people who is a corporate junkie and sits at a desk from 9am to 6pm daily (and still work at home after that), you are prone to drain your creativity when the load of work comes in. No matter how much you love your craft, your daily lifestyle can drag you to boredom.
It may be a really great challenge to break your daily routine, especially if you are used to it. But regardless if you think that it works to keep you productive every day, your office habits are destroying the very core of how you are surviving in the first place.
3. Try Working Outside
Keeping your passion and creativity alive requires more than just taking some break and refueling your creative juices. It's something that needs to be constantly practiced. Here are some tips to help maintain your creativity despite having a full-time shift in the office.
We know, it’s hard, especially if you have overlapping deadlines and a long list of tasks to do. But focusing on one project at a time can give you enough time to conceptualize on a certain project. Thus, giving you the opportunity to create a more meaningful and artistic work in every project. Multitasking may be effective in terms of the speed of work, but giving one task just half of your attention can make it less good.
4. Take Note Of It
To be able to focus on one work, you can start by creating a to-do list and crossing out the finished tasks. In that way, you will know exactly what else do you need to finish in a day and you can also track your progress on an hourly basis. It’s going to be more effective if your list is specific on tasks and not deadlines. For example, if you are a writer, instead of listing down the deadlines for each article, you can list down each task such as researching, drafting, writing, and editing (Yes, a single task can have multiple subtasks under it).
It doesn’t make you an awesome employee if you know nothing but to work. If you want to refuel your creativity, start doing other things outside of work. Use your office time to do your job and rest on the days and hours that you’re supposed to be resting. Also, it’s not bad to take a break on your lunch time because you really should. Sitting on your desk (and working) while having lunch doesn’t make you productive. Sure, it helps you progress, but it’s draining you, too.
5. Look For An Inspiration And A Motivation
Moreover, find something else to do on weekends and rest hours. It may be a little tricky to pause your work mind at night because you’re, somehow, preparing for the next day; but if you are efficient during the day, you wouldn’t need to think about any task on your way home. Passion and creativity are sharpened by the randomness and diversity of your experiences.
The ultimate tip: leave your job on your desk. The moment you leave the office, the tasks should be left behind.
6. Read. Watch. Read. Watch.
The only way to kill a monotonous environment is by going to a different environment. No, we don’t mean that you should resign. All you need is a different ambience from time to time.
You can go out for a working lunch and do your tasks in a coffee shop or a restaurant (or anywhere you feel relaxed). An hour of lunch break can already help to refuel your draining creativity. Well, when we say “working lunch”, it does not necessarily mean taking a computer with you and work. You can just bring a notepad or some pieces of paper to conceptualize and think of new ideas to make your tasks more creative.
7. Spread Creativity At Work
You’ll be surprised how seeing strangers can give you inspiration. Going out and getting some fresh air can actually help you gather new perspectives that can be really helpful in finishing your creative projects.
Part of organizing your tasks is also organizing your thoughts. Concepts come in surprise for people with creative minds. Which means that, there are cases where an idea will pop out while you are in the middle of a meeting or a very important task. To keep that thought alive, and to not forget it, make sure that you will take note if the magic bulb suddenly blinks.
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