Creative blocks come in two main types - having no ideas at all, literally a blockage or having too many ideas. Try these tips to get your "mojo" back.
1. If time allows put the project on the back burner for a week. Don't look at it, don't do anything connected with it at all. Revisit it a week later.
2. Find a simple, mechanical, methodical task - organizing your office or studio, housework, gardening, filing. These tasks get you moving, allows for a sense of achievement from starting and finishing a task - and they take your mind off your creative block.
3. Get moving - take a walk, swim, stretch, dance, breathe - the block is alive in yor body, so movement allows it to find a way out.
4. Explore for a moment the way you are feeling - is it overwhelm, frustrations, pressure, anxiety, indecision? Whatever it is accept it. You can walk with it, journal it, meditate - there are many ways through it, but naming it and accepting it are key to creating change.
5. If you have an impulse - follow it. It might be just where you need to go next for a fresh idea or direction.
6. Do something - a little step towards the project - sharpen your pencil, make that phone call, clean your studio space - one small step and then walk away for an hour. Then do the next step, and so on...
7. Tap into your creative side - leave the editor, doubter, inner critic in another room.
8. Treat your work as play - make the workspace inspiring, surround yourself with inspirational art, ideas, text, etc.
9. Make a list of 10 things you've learned to do despite doubts that you could. This kind of exercise proves you can do it, because you already have despite doubts and difficulties.
10. Approach your task/block as if you were a child. How would a 5 year old do?
