The solution to these problems, or in other words, "achieving the dream," lies in the creative faculties of the individual because creativity means creating something out of nothing, the thing that does not exist at present.
The person's goals and aspirations will only come true if they use their imagination to create a practical action plan. These goals and aspirations must be remembered. However, they continue to cause anguish and frustration and are a source of sorrow in their souls. In other words, having creativity is essential to reaching all of your goals and solving all of your problems.
Five obstacles that kill creativity
Five obstacles that kill creativity are arranged in ascending order from the least dangerous to the most dangerous:
1. Raise expectations
History proves day after day that overcoming crises and achieving outstanding achievements in life is not done overnight and that the time required to achieve a specific goal is directly proportional to the magnitude of the problem and the importance of the dream to which the individual aspires.
All individuals nowadays expect their desires to be met instantly and achieve success rapidly. When this mentality is applied, people become frustrated and demotivated when goals are not met in the anticipated amount of time they prepare themselves for failure, impairing their ability to be creative.
Ambition and optimism are acceptable, but expectations regarding the amount of time and effort needed to accomplish a goal should be reasonable and realistic.
2. Setting goals without an action plan to implement them
“Genius achievements are achieved by hard work, not just creative thinking,” says the American inventor Thomas Edison. No success without hard work and creative thinking is good, but achieving dreams and fulfilling desires is linked to implementing these ideas.
Most individuals have a prominent ability to proceed with their goals at the beginning, but their "enthusiasm" is quickly depleted, and progress in the action plan becomes daunting. At this particular stage, most individuals give up. Successful individual is characterized by their ability to continue to implement their strategy, no matter how bad the circumstances get and progress becomes difficult.
To overcome this problem, we advise you to prepare psychologically from the beginning to face the frustration and desire to surrender at a specific stage after overcoming the enthusiasm and inspiration of the start, and you intend to continue implementing your plan in various circumstances and conditions.
Most individuals reach the stage of frustration when things go wrong or the individual believes that their work is useless, that no one cares about their struggle, that they are a failure and other frustrating ideas.
When you are prepared from the beginning for the possibility of losing motivation in one of the implementation stages, you will be ready to contain the situation and overcome it with the least possible losses; it will not take you by surprise; you are waiting for it to happen, and you can control things again by committing to continue your work as you pledged at the beginning.
3. Waiting for inspiration
Your progress toward achieving your dream may be slow because you are "waiting for inspiration" to come to you to fuel your enthusiasm, boost your energy, and increase your productivity and the quality of your work. The problem is that the influence of inspiration and motivation is temporary, and there is no point in waiting. They may never return.
The right solution requires you to commit to hard work and intensify your efforts as much as possible. In this way, your inspiration will be constantly renewed because hard work and progress stimulate feelings of enthusiasm and inspiration so you can achieve your goal in the end.
4. Pessimism
Never listen to the words of the frustrated who question your abilities and eligibility and discourage you with their toxic ideas, whether they are family members, co-workers, friends, or your boss.
Sometimes, people feel frustrated when thinking about the harmful experiences of the past and remember every word said against them, whether from their parents, siblings, teachers, or friends, and they begin to doubt themselves.
The real issue emerges when these detrimental ideas and uncertainties take over a person's thinking and integrate themselves into their daily routine. Therefore, you must be aware of these negative thoughts that lead you to question your abilities and surrender and separate them from your mindset and decisions because they are not related to you personally.
Yet, they are the consequences of your past and current experiences. If you were not qualified to succeed, you would not have had that dream and would not have wanted that goal in the first place.
There is no need to confront these pessimistic ideas when they come to you so they do not worsen. It is enough to realize that they are alien to your mindset and do not relate to you from near or far and that they are the deposits of the words that were said against you and previous damaging experiences and the resulting doubts and fears that have nothing to do with you in the first place. In this way, you will eliminate harmful ideas quickly without draining your efforts and time in confronting them.
5. Vanity
Vanity usually arises after individuals or institutions have achieved outstanding successes due to their efforts in the previous stage, such as accomplishing enormous revenues or achieving fame from actors, authors, and others.
This vanity must be followed by failure in the human or institutional current and future life stages. Therefore, paying attention to this mentality is essential to prevent it from destroying your dreams and successes, and you must always be humble. Humility is the nature of successful people.
This mindset can be prevalent in your organization or your life in particular. It includes your belief in your superiority over everyone, your outstanding experience, your lack of need to continue learning because you have all the knowledge and expertise, and refraining from careful study of the next stage because you have been in the field for a long time and you are sure to achieve success this time.
This mentality leads to failure and overthrows creativity, innovation, and productivity. The American inventor Thomas Edison says: "What we know is a drop, and what we do not know is an ocean." Accordingly, there are no actual experts in any field of life, no matter how brilliant an individual thinks it is, and people around him praise his successes and achievements.
That proves the experience of computer and programming companies. When IBM was at the peak of its success and fame, Microsoft exerted its effort to innovate and outperformed it, and when it reached the stage of vanity in turn, Google, Facebook, Apple, and so on.
Ancient wisdom taught us that humility is one of the attributes of the competent, and no matter how much human understanding increases, it does not constitute a drop in the ocean of science and knowledge. Thus, we advise you to continue learning regardless of your successes and excellence in your field of work, as we are students of life until the last moment.
In conclusion
This article has discussed five barriers to creativity that you must prepare for and eliminate as soon as they appear in your life to achieve your dreams and goals.
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