6 Tips to Get Over Creative Block
Feeling creatively constipated is certainly not a fun state of affairs!
Writer's block (or creative block) is a horrible experience, but you can minimize it.
Stop torturing your soul and doubting yourself!
Do this instead:
Brainstorm a Ton of Ideas
As many as possible. Distance yourself from the quality of these ideas and just accept that most of them are going to be bad. Obnoxiously so, even. This is not a defeatist way to look at idea creation. Einstein had a lot of ideas - many, many ideas - and yet he has only become well remembered for a handful.
Focus
Yes, focus on what's really needed rather than fancy gadgets or technically astounding innovations. Sometimes people are far happier with something that just works if it saves them time or trouble, than they are if it gleams gold AND makes them toast for breakfast too. ;-)
Track Your Ideas
You may think those 99 ideas that were just "meh" should be ditched, but your analytics might tell you differently. Maybe one of those ideas was "meh" to you, but they shone like the morning sun for a group of people who benefitted from it. That's your winner - despite whatever feelings you may have about it.
Talk to Other People
(I’m here for you too 😉 )
You spend far too long looking at a problem and analyzing it to really understand what the user experience is for someone else. Take a few minutes to look around at how others view solutions and let those ideas inspire you.
Get Up Early
The calm before the rest if your household start boiling the kettle is often a great period of time for productivity. When it's still dark and everyone is in bed, there's a magical focus that disappears when the Sun comes up and your Facebook timeline starts filling up with irrelevant memes.
Take a Chance
Just go with a half-formed idea and see what happens. Runners who look out at an obviously cold, wet and windy day often intensely dislike the idea of going out for a run. But they tell themselves that they'll go for "just 10 minutes". The result is often a very happy runner with another run under their belt. Because they felt better after 10 minutes - their bodies warmed up, their legs felt more stretched - they just went for it!
In your case, just go with any half-good idea and let it take you where it takes you.
You’ll soon see, as you put these tips into practice, that being able to put the little monster back in its cage means you can cope a lot better with your boss or clients' demands for newer and more innovative creative concepts and content on a regular basis.