How to Become A Creator and Never Make Another Resolution

Every year millions of people make those infamous “New Year’s Resolution” for the nth time. But very few know how to use the power of creativity to manifest what they want. Using the Creation Process, you can give definition to those resolutions, and empower yourself to act toward what you want.

Creating is different from the reacting or responding to circumstances that often motivates your resolutions. The process of creating is not generated by the circumstances in which you find yourself, but from the places in you where true desire dwells.

As you begin to consider what you want to create in your life, it is helpful to understand that the circumstance that you currently experience do not determine the results you desire to create. You are not limited by life circumstances, although you may be entrenched in them, and will need support to move out of them.

The steps in the Creation Process are simple to describe, but we often don’t do them for two basic reasons:

First, according to Robert Fritz, in The Path of Least Resistence (1989), each step is really a set of actions you must take, not something to just think about or visualize. Some steps are very active, while some may appear to be passive. And aspects of the steps call for different skills, some of which you may have already mastered, and some of which you may have still to learn.

Secondly and simply put, you don’t create because you often lack the support and structure that human beings need to manifest their desires.

1. Know what you want, be very clear about it. Creators start at the end with an idea of what they want to create. Your idea may start as a rough draft or it may come to you clearly and specifically. This step utilizes the power of your conscious mind.

Helpful hint: Talk over your idea with a trusted advisor, coach, or supportive and knowledgeable friend. Hearing your ideas out loud and getting encouragement and feedback often helps to clarify and define what you really want.

2. Let yourself really want what you want. This is the acid test. Feel how it feels as you experience having what you want now. Take deep breaths and let it in. See it clearly in your mind’s eye. You may feel some anxiety or uncertainty, but mostly you will feel excited, challenged, joyful, hopeful, etc. If you don’t, then this is probably not your true desire. Instead, it is may be an “ought to” or a “should”

Our cultural conditioning in our families and communities often alienate us from our true desires and the rightness of our wanting. One of the skills you may have to develop is knowing and owning what you truly want.

3. Assess the current situation. See what currently exists in your experience. Be aware of what you have created so far. Name the obstacles you perceive to creating what you want, for example: time, money, knowledge. Know what your resources are and what resources you need.

Barbara Sher, teaches an exercise, called The Idea Party (click here to January newsletter, The Idea Party) that supports people to find answers to their obstacles.

4. Take action in a supportive environment. Once you have gotten to what you really want and know what you currently have, you are ready to take action. But what type of action(s) do you take? Creating is a matter of invention, says Fritz (1989), rather than doing the same things over and over again. Invention is not a skill reserved for geniuses and scientists, but another skill to develop. Inventing is setting new goals and trying new strategies, some of which will work and some of which won’t. Understand that creating is a learning process, and you will know what works and what doesn’t by at first watching the results. And then over time, you will develop a wisdom or a knack for knowing what works and what doesn’t

Again, take action in a supportive environment. As Barbara Sher says, “isolation is the killer or dreams…. Human beings need support and structure….” to be creators. So, contrary to popular beliefs, the lone dreamer is not the best creator and our inspirations are unlikely to flower when our thoughts are always the lone seed.