Which means that on a daily basis
I’m talking to colleagues about creativity, explaining why we need to be more creative
as an organisation, encouraging them to try new ways of doing/looking at things…blah,
blah, blah, etc.
But this also needs to be about modelling behaviours and I’ve been conscious for a while that I may not
be as good as I could be at taking my own medicine. I’ve got a bit stuck in my own
ways of doing things. And I don’t push myself out of my comfort zone very often.
So - inspired by a load of stuff,
not least this blog;
a conversation with Alison Williams and reading BITE,
the book she co-edited; and this
IRISS project – I thought, how about setting myself a daily creativity
challenge? And I thought. And I thought. And I thought some more. And then I
thought, if I tell Twitter I’m doing it, then it'll have to happen! So I put this
on Twitter last night.
I think I may just have talked myself into a 'do something creative *every* day' type challenge. Anyone want to join me? #iamcreative
— Lesley Thomson (@lelil) April 1, 2014
And, serendipitously, today I find
myself with a bit of spare time that I wasn’t due to have.
So here’s what I’m thinking. Every
day, I will do something creative. And I’ll share it on this Tumblr and on
Twitter (hashtag #iamcreative). I may post some stuff here. I’ll also post on our Yammer network.
Other than that, there will be no
rules. I’m not going to further define ‘something creative’. It might be
something very obviously work related; it might not. Some days it might be
something very small; other days it might be something big and dramatic! It could be small c creativity; or big C creativity (very unlikely!); or something in between.
I
will try very hard to do something every day, but I’m sure I’ll miss days
here and there. I'm not committing to 365 days, or anything like that - if it begins to feel like a chore, I’ll stop.
If this tickles your fancy, why don't you join me :-) ?
