Bright Sparks: Creative Practices to Light Your Way

Hi, this is Diana. Bright knowledge instants give you one thing you can do today to move your creativity ahead. And right now we're in January. A lot of decluttering is going on. What I would love to do is invite you to declutter negative self talk. Negative self talk is one of those things that gets right to the heart of your creativity and stops it dead in its tracks.

And it happens to all of us. All of us have negative self talk pretty much on a daily basis. So what is one of the best ways to counter that negative self talk? Well, it's to put a but in it. And that's b u t the word but. We tend to avoid this word because it negates what came before it. Well, that's exactly what we want to do.

We want to negate this negative self talk. So for example, if you find yourself saying something like, ah, my playing is sounding so choppy. You would say, but I'm actively working on my technique so that I will play with fluency. You might find yourself saying something like, ah, my writin...