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7 Habits of Highly Creative Minds

 Antoinette Seaman

3. See The Potential and Make A List

Don't stop thinking just because the technology, money, or support behind your idea doesn't exist yet. It will someday. Reality is the result of imagination. What you put into the machine of creativity is the actual product or innovation you'll get out.

You can create your best work based on the amount of vision you put into a single idea. Even Einstein famously said, "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

Some tend to think lists are too constraining for the creative mind. But this only partly true. A list telling you mundane tasks to do at a specific time sure can be limiting to creative thinking. But good list-making is about more than simple task management.

Creative thinkers use lists as mental roadmaps. As a place to see all their ideas before they get overrun by another wave of creative thought. Thomas Edison, John Lennon, and Leonardo da Vinci are among some of the creative thinkers of history that have used list-making as a creativity tool. Designers and illustrators can either make lists of concepts or keep a sketchpad to quickly draw out their ideas. When a new project comes up, it's easy to be inspired when you already have all your creative thoughts written or drawn in front of you.

Here's what you should do. Make a list of the things you want your freelance business to do, to be, and to achieve. Without editing, without thinking too much, and without believing something's impossible - just write a list.

Now take a good look at your list. Keeping in mind the habits of creative thinking, what is stopping you from making the things on your list a reality? Remember that reality is what you create. Think creatively and you'll find solutions to the issues that may come up when you're working freelance. Besides - clients are trusting you to be a good solution-finder.