Everyone gets stuck at times. You know that feeling where you want to be creative, but it’s just not happening. Instead you procrastinate, you avoid the project, or you do other “important” things. This episode explains reasons why we get stuck and provides solutions to move into full creative breakthrough mode. Ready to get unstuck? Just click play!What You’ll Learn* How to figure out which stage of the creative process you are stuck in and then how to move forward* General tips that will help you move forward, regardless of where you are stuck* Techniques to help you move into breakthrough thinking and active creatingResources* Blog post: Three Tips to Help you Focus When Writing* Climer Cards* Zig Zag Cards* Strict Workflow by Matchu* Focus@Will* Book: The War of Art by Stephen PressfieldThe Weekly ChallengeTry out one of the tips or tools shared this week. How did it go? Share your experiences below in the comments section.TranscriptFeel like reading instead of listening? Download the free PDF Transcript or read it below. Enjoy!Transcript for Episode #039: How to Get Unstuck and Start Being CreativeAmy Climer: Welcome to The Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode 39. Today, I am going to talk about how to get unstuck and start being creative. So let’s talk first about what is this thing being stuck. What does stuck mean? When I say being stuck or you want to get unstuck, I think of it as not being able to move forward. That you are procrastinating something that is important to you, something where you are trying to be creative. Essentially, you are avoiding the creative act. To me that is what being stuck is. And quite frankly, it is just we get inside our own head and we prevent ourselves from being creative. So I want to share with you basically a system that I have developed for myself that helps me get unstuck. Hopefully, it will work for you. Let me know. I would love to get the feedback from you to find out hey, did this work for you?Recognize That You Are Stuck [The first thing I find helpful is, and this is going to sound really obvious, but recognize that you are stuck. And really just pay attention to, “What is going on? Oh, okay. I am actually stuck. I am not doing what it is I really want to be doing. Along with that, is looking at what are you doing instead of being creative, instead of the creative act. So let’s say, for instance, that you want to have more art in your life. You want to create more art. So you decide that you would like to do some watercolor painting. You have some free time in the evenings, on the weekends, and so you figure yeah, I want to take this up. But then you realize a month has passed and you actually have not done anything. Maybe you bought some new watercolor paints and a paintbrush, but you have not actually made anything. Not even anything bad. You have not made anything. So that would be an example of being stuck. So recognizing that and realizing, “Oh, it has been a month. I have not done anything yet!” Recognizing that.