Episode 142

How To Keep Your Creative Momentum Going

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Creative breakthroughs are magic. Those moments when ideas pour out of you, when everything flows, when your energy feels unstoppable. But what happens when that flow fades? When the momentum dries up just days later, and you’re sitting in front of a blank screen wondering where the spark went?

I’ve been there. And it taught me something important, creativity isn’t a switch we flip. It’s a relationship we nurture. In this piece, I want to explore what it means to treat your creativity like a living energy, how to reconnect with it when the flow slows down, and the unconventional ways I’ve found to keep momentum alive.

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Treat Creativity as a Living Entity

When you view creativity as a living energy, something that responds to care, space, and attention, it changes the way you relate to your work. You stop seeing creativity as a machine and start honouring it as something sacred. Something relational.

One of the most powerful things you can do is write a letter to your creativity. Thank it for showing up. Ask how you can better support it. It might sound strange at first, but the shift it creates is real. It helps you externalise your creative energy so you can work with it more consciously.

You can also:

  • Set a creative “business date” where you take time away from daily tasks to reflect and play with ideas.
  • Change your environment, go to a new café, co-working space, or outdoor spot to brainstorm.
  • Treat creativity like a playful partner or child: give it space, attention, and joy, not pressure.

When you do this, your creative energy starts to respond. The ideas come back. The flow returns. But it starts with relationships, not performance.

Change the Medium

Sometimes your creativity stalls because you’ve been doing the same thing, the same way, for too long. When I get stuck, whether in painting or content creation, I change the medium. That’s one of the easiest ways to shift energy.

If you always write your content in a notebook, try speaking it out loud and recording yourself. If you paint with acrylics, try switching to pencils or digital sketching. If you usually sit at your desk, try creating from the couch or even outside.

I personally move between different creative practices, acrylic pouring, diamond painting, doodling, because each one brings out something different in me. And when I rotate between them, I avoid the stagnation that can happen when you force yourself to stay in one lane.

Borrow Inspiration from Other Industries

It’s easy to get stuck in our own niche. But sometimes, the most powerful creative breakthroughs happen when we step completely outside of it.

If you’re a coach who supports creative entrepreneurs, try looking at how coaches in entirely different fields work, sports, parenting, business strategy. You’ll be surprised at what clicks when you explore beyond your zone. New language. New approaches. New energy.

The goal isn’t to copy, it’s to awaken fresh thinking. When you do that, you stop recycling the same strategies and start discovering new pathways.

Create a Post-Breakthrough Ritual

We celebrate big business wins, but we rarely honour our creative breakthroughs. That’s a missed opportunity.

After a big wave of creativity, maybe you mapped out three months of content or created something you’re proud of, take time to reflect. Ask yourself:

  • What worked well during that process?
  • What supported the flow?
  • What do I want to remember for next time?

Then write it down. Document it. And celebrate it.

You might even want to write a note to your future self, a reminder of what’s possible when you’re in flow. Keep that note somewhere visible so when the next creative drought shows up, you have a piece of evidence that the flow always returns.

Use Intentional Pauses

Taking breaks is necessary—but how we take them matters. Don’t step away aimlessly. Make your pauses intentional.

You might:

  • Take a short sensory walk, notice what’s pink, round, or joyful in your environment.
  • Do a mini-review of your recent work, what lit you up? What drained you? What can shift?
  • Tidy your creative space or change something in your environment to create new energy.

These small shifts don’t just refresh your mind, they recalibrate your frequency. They remind you that creativity isn’t just mental. It’s physical. Emotional. Energetic.

Collaborate with Your Future Self

This one is a practice I come back to again and again: writing to my future self. Ask yourself, what do I want my creativity to look like one year from now? What do I want to have created? Launched? How many clients have I worked with? What has my energy felt like?

Be specific. Write it all down. Then keep that letter somewhere you can revisit when things feel unclear or stagnant.

It’s not about setting rigid goals. It’s about staying connected to your creative vision—so you don’t drift when the momentum slows.

Final Reflections

Your creative energy doesn’t disappear. It shifts. It evolves. And it responds to the way you treat it.

You don’t need to force more output. You just need to reconnect, to your process, to your play, to the parts of yourself that come alive when creativity is nurtured, not pushed.

Momentum returns when you honour the magic, not just in the big breakthroughs, but in the gentle ways you stay in relationship with your creative self.

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