{"id":25,"date":"2017-06-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyricwell.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2024-11-16T20:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T01:57:04","slug":"artistic-exercise-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyricwell.com\/blog\/artistic-exercise-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Use This Artistic Exercise to Release Your Inner Child and Build Creative Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-63 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lyricwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ChildlikeConfidence.png\" alt=\"Coloring - get back to that childlike confidence using this artistic exercise\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lyricwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ChildlikeConfidence.png 560w, https:\/\/lyricwell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ChildlikeConfidence-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing my daughter loves to do, it\u2019s anything artsy. It\u2019s very rare for her to go a day without drawing, painting, or coloring something. Many people start out life like my daughter, confident of their artistic skills, but as they get older that confidence fizzles as their work is criticized and eventually they stop. That may or may not describe you.<\/p>\n<h2>This Week&#8217;s Artistic Exercise<\/h2>\n<p>This week it&#8217;s time to get back to that childlike confidence and express your creativity in a way you may not normally do. Every day, paint or color something whether it\u2019s freehand or something in a coloring book. Don&#8217;t worry about what other&#8217;s might think since you&#8217;re the only one who has to see it!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some freehand ideas &#8211; something you can see, something you\u2019re feeling, a favorite childhood memory, something using only one crayon\/color, a place you want to go, a picture based on one of your favorite songs, a picture showing where you want to end up with your music.<\/p>\n<p>If you know a kid who loves art, have them join you and do this activity together!<\/p>\n<h2>Challenge: Dare to Fail<\/h2>\n<p>Are you afraid of failure? Are you afraid no one will like your songs, your lyrics, your music? If you are, you\u2019re definitely not alone. It&#8217;s hard to pour your heart into something only to have it ignored or even mocked. But failure doesn\u2019t have to be the end, if you learn from it, it can be a step toward success. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-34775411\">Failure helps creativity<\/a>, it improves it.<\/p>\n<p>Today, along with your weekly creative exercise, I dare you to fail musically. Take a song you\u2019ve been wanting to work on and do it, today. You\u2019ll make more progress writing 100 bad songs and figuring out why they are bad than trying to write that one perfect song.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.songwritingscene.com\/2015\/10\/overcoming-your-biggest-songwriting-fears\/\">Here are some tips to help you overcome your songwriting fears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have not failed. I\u2019ve just found 10,000 ways that won\u2019t work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Thomas Edison<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Winston Churchill<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn&#8217;t really matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; D.L. Moody<\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Flyricwell.com%2Fblog%2Fartistic-exercise-creativity%2F&#038;text=%E2%80%9COur%20greatest%20fear%20should%20not%20be%20of%20failure%2C%20but%20of%20succeeding%20at%20something%20that%20doesn%27t%20really%20matter.%E2%80%9D%20-%20D.L.%20Moody&#038;related' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cOur greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn&#039;t really matter.\u201d - D.L. 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