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Sam Harrison has a list of things you can do to help you be creative:

Some if it gets a little....Mickey Mouse Club for me at times, but still food for thought, nonetheless.

Here is my favorite: Build on mistakes. Know the difference between good mistakes (strong effort, bad result) and bad mistakes (sloppy effort, bad result).

Some of the most inspired people I know have been writing beautiful posts lately about the successes they've achieved and the possibilities they've dreamed. None of these would have happened if these people had been afraid to make a choice, afraid to make a mistake.

I have always lived my life at full-tilt boogie, which isn't something I thought to be proud of until my mom said: "You know, you never give up. You see a stop sign and you just try every way around it, over it, under it, until you get past it." I truly saw myself from the outside at that moment, not as someone screwing up, but someone screwing up on their way to a goal.

I make mistakes at that same speed - full on, helmet strapped to my head with duct tape. I would almost always rather take a risk and see what happens. I like the ensuing fireworks.

What I'm saying is I've made plenty of mistakes - but now I realize that I own those. I made them, fashioned from my own fingers and made animate. I rationed and reasoned and thought my way through to some terrible choices. But those are my mistakes, my fireworks.

There's a subtle difference between being assured in your rightness and plowing ahead, damn the torpedos; and in taking that step over into the unknown, willing to accept the consequences.

I love this aspect of life.