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Resuscitate Your Creative Mojo in Six Simple Steps

3/30/2016

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The loss of creative mojo is a terrible thing.

For me, it was a season of mandatory and exclusive use of my left brain that did it. I'd been forced to leave my right brain - where creative mojo resides - unattended for far too long. It became limp and lethargic. It began to atrophy. It was dying a slow death. I didn't even realize this until I tried to write, and all I could get was three sentences. That's it. I was horrified and discouraged but not hopeless. Desperate is more like it, so what did I do to breathe life back into my creative mojo?

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Step One:
Step away from the chaos of life.
I took two weeks of vacation from my left-brain job.
I spent the first week with this heart-throb (sorry, I don't share - at least not this guy).

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And a few days with these lovable lovelies (a.k.a. my daughter and her family)

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Step Two:
Have a plan.

Bringing a dying mojo back to life is like caring for someone in the ICU. The doctors and nurses don't watch their patients in hopes that they'll revive. They make a plan. They follow through. They get results.

My plan was to take each morning of the second week and spend it in prayer and motivational reading.I'd heard a lot of praise for The Gifts of Imperfection by Dr. Brene Brown, so I bought a copy and saved it for this week. I highly recommend it.

I wanted to read the book from start to finish during that week, so I divided up the pages (126) by five and committed to read a set number (25) each day.

It was great. My mornings were wonderfully refreshing.

Step Three:
Give your brain space to breathe.
Take walks around your neighborhood. Take walks on trails. Go for a hike or two or three. Sit on your deck and let your brain relax. Don't think. Just be.

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Step Four:
Give your mojo a little exercise (but don't overdo it).

I I wasn't quite ready to write just yet. That involves the left brain. I'd given my left brain the week off, so I took up loom knitting (I don't think the hat is going to be a keeper). I also made a wall decor for a poor barren wall in our living room. This was a lot of fun, very therapeutic, and it turned out! Win! Win! Win!

Step Five:
Rest. Laugh. Enjoy. Love.

These three heal the heart, mind, soul, and mojo.

Step Six:
Check your mojo out of the hospital.

By now, my creative mojo was breathing on its own and able to walk, though it wasn't 100% just yet. Healing takes time.

I am now writing again, but my right brain mojo is still in recovery,
so I'm not too concerned with writing well just yet. I'm just writing.

And it's so much fun.
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