The Kaizen-Muse model of coaching specializes in moving individuals past the following creative blocks:
- Fears related to the creative process including of fear of failure, of wasting time and resources, of being judged, of inadequacy.
- Fear of success (i.e. the increased pressure and responsibility associated with success).
- Self sabotage (the continual frustration with setting intentions and not taking action).
- Procrastination
- Immobilizing perfectionism
- Overwhelm
- Self-Doubt/ Comparison/Low Self Confidence
- Inability to focus on just one idea
- Finding the time to engage in creative passions
- Difficulty starting or finishing projects
- Difficulty returning to creative endeavors previously enjoyed
- Feeling stuck in unrewarding habits such as TV, computer games and incessant email checking :)
- Other fears associated with the creative process
If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.
- Rodney Crowell
Writers, artists, and other creative people are able to finally "get" to their work, bypassing fear. perfectionism, and procrastination with small steps, feeling supported in a sometimes lonely pursuit and enhancing resourcefulness with innovative triggers designed to elicit greater ingenuity.Individuals in mid-life are guided through overwhelm, perfectionism, procrastination, comparison and self-doubt with structure, time-finding techniques, prompts, thought-training, and small actions that increase the creative appetite for more.
Business professionals discover a whole range of innovative prompts, perspectives and tools to help their ability to create together as a team or individually, augment the distinction needed for competitve ingenuity, and deliver refreshing marketing strategies.
