One year ago, I quit higher ed because I was fatigued of the constant deconstruction mode. The tearing apart of mind, body, and soul. I was ready to reimagine a paradigm shift beyond the fear and shame. My journey had placed me back at home within myself.

I stepped back a little in my blogging and outreach this past month because I’ve been preparing for BIG transformation. When I’m in that space, I step inward. I even start organizing and purging the house — I imagine that’s an outward manifestation of what’s happening inside.

Routines can give you back your sanity, time, and spaciousness for your creativity. And even more than that, routines train your brain - when you have a creative routine you are prepping your neural pathways for the work. Creativity needs the support of some variation of routine and discipline/commitment.

The topic of practices to unblock creativity is closely tied to the previous one on creative rest and to the next one on routines. I’m a big fan of framing activities - especially the ones on this list - as practices because every day and time will be different based on mood, energy, context, time, space and more.