We all have a self-image, a picture or collection of pictures in our heads about how we think we are and how we think we appear to the outside world.

Speaking personally for a moment, I’ve met a number of new people in the last couple of months, and many of them have told me how I’m confident and capable.

I’m delighted and grateful about the compliments of course, but a little voice deep inside still says:

“Confident? Me? Come on, I’m just a shy and scared little boy!”

The mostly positive self image I have of myself still has a few fragments of an old and outdated self image that occasionally reappears.

Maybe I DID used to be a shy and scared little boy. Or maybe I never was. But the reality is, to the outside world now, I’m appearing with some positive and valued attributes that people are attracted to and responding to.

It’s a bit like one of those criminal identikit pictures you see in old crime shows.

The victim goes to the police and scans through hundreds of sets of eyes, ears, noses, mouths, dodgy haircuts and other facial features until they’ve fitted together the best picture of the person they saw committing the crime.

So how does this apply to your creative life?

What does your creative identikit picture of yourself look like?

We’re not talking about physical features here. Let’s look deeper than that.

How do you present your creative self to the world? How do you exist and interact in the world as a creative person?

If you picked 5 words that described your creative identikit - how you see yourself as an artistic creative person right now – what would they be?

Adventurous? Experimental? Productive? Imaginative? Confident?

Or would they more likely be:

Fearful. Inconsistent. Stuck. Fraudulent. Inadequate.

What 5 words would you LOVE to accurately describe how you are as a creative person?

While you ponder that question, let’s have a little reality check here.

And the reality is that you’re probably actually far closer to the 5 words you’d love to accurately describe you than the first set of 5 words you came up with.

Often, we find we’re carrying around with us an old, tired, outdated self-image of ourselves that, even if it was accurate many years ago (and even then it’s likely it was negatively biased), it’s a long way from the truth of the person we are now.

What parts of your outdated creative self-image are causing you unnecessary pain, and choking your creativity?

Identifying the parts of your creative identikit picture that are inaccurate and outdated is the first step to setting yourself free from them.

The second step is replacing them with new, shiny bright positive and accurate ones.

So think about the positive attributes you have as a creative person.

What positive creative traits and strengths do people mention to you and compliment you on? Those kind of comments that you brush off with “oh that’s nothing special” and “yeh, I suppose, but anyone could have done that.”?

The evidence is there that you have plenty of positive creative strengths.

It’s time now, for the sake of your creativity, to throw away that old outdated creative identikit image and replace with one that’s more truthful, more accurate and a more positive reflection of the wonderfully capable and creative person you are today.

Take the next step to increase your creativity and build that new creative self image today! Get your FREE copy of Creativity Coach Dan Goodwin’s powerful and practical “Explode Your Creativity!” Action Workbook when you sign up to the FREE twice monthly ezine “Create Create!”. Visit the website now: www.CoachCreative.com

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