Banish Your Inner Critic to Unleash Creativity

Introduction

• Imagine trusting your ideas and feeling great about what you create

1. Remove Your Creative Blocks

• The origin of creative blocks and why we need to remove them
• Creativity and the inner critic
• Recognize your inner critic

2. How to Silence the Inner Critic

• Our mental power tools
• Using neuroplasticity to silence the inner critic
• Using mindfulness to silence the inner critic
• Using self-compassion to silence the inner critic

3. Own Your Creativity and Initiate Idea Generation

• Discover your creativity
• Stop killing your ideas
• Become an idea machine

4. Develop Mental Mastery and Break the Cycle of Self-Doubt

• Transform self-talk: Give your self-talk a reboot
• Be self-referential and release “shoulds”
• Break the cycle of rumination
• Learn to deal with criticism with ease

5. Stop the Comparison Cycle and Own Your Talents

• Transform envy
• Focus on your successes not comparative failures
• Stop toning yourself and your talents down
• Be and share your brilliance

Apply What You Have Learned

• Welcome back to your creativity