5 Practices to Recover the Creativity You Forgot You Had
Christian Ray Flores here.
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In This Issue
• Deep Dive: 5 Practices to Reignite the Creator in You
• Win of the Week: Why I’ll Always Have a Coach
• In My Headspace: Creativity, Music, and Meaning with David Andrew Wiebe
• Pulse: Do you think of yourself as creative?
• Opportunities: Coaching spots open — let’s talk
Win of the Week
Being a business coach, I sometimes forget just how transformative it is to be coached.
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks working with a personal trainer Monday to Friday in the gym for an hour. And in just two weeks — my entire philosophy of exercise and nutrition leveled up.
I’ve hired coaches for basically anything I want to accelerate.
And I’m still amazed how much faster it gets me to clarity and results.
I’ll never stop working with coaches. Ever.
Opportunities
I have a spot opening in my coaching cohort in August.
If you’ve been following along and feel like it’s time for a shift — in your life, your career, or your personal brand — let’s talk.
In My Headspace
This issue was inspired by a recent podcast with David Andrew Wiebe — we started on creative business and ended up in a deep dive on purpose and creativity.
You can watch it here:
👉 Creativity, Music, and Meaning – Full Interview
Deep Dive
5 Practices to Reignite the Creator in You
Creativity is a forgotten superpower in a world of high performance that pushes out most of the mystery — the same mystery that, ironically, unlocks our most extraordinary performance.
Today’s Deep Dive is about five lifestyle patterns I use to stay in a creative state most of the time.
Before I unpack them, here’s why this matters — even if you don’t see yourself as an artist.
I first felt that jolt of creative bliss when I joined a children’s choir.
We were living in Mozambique, part of a community of Chilean exiles — a strange mix of people and culture.
We sang Latin American songs, and during rehearsals, I sometimes felt I could do it forever.
That experience taught me something: this state of creativity — flow, connection, meaning — is where I find value I can offer to others.
It may seem impractical to many, but I find it the most practical, enjoyable way to create value in any space: business, art, charity, you name it.
And once you learn it — it cannot be unlearned.
We’re all creative. Every single one of us.
The desire to build something, that deep intuition, the longing for beauty, purpose, and significance — it’s in you.
We come alive when we create. Creation is simply an idea becoming reality. We crave it like oxygen.
Some people retain their creativity for life.
The rest rationalize away the inner desert: “This is just life.” “Being a responsible adult means letting that go.”
But that longing never leaves. Ever.
You know the feeling — a story so deep in your soul you’ve wanted to tell it for years.
Or that itch to start something — a coffee shop, a travel agency, a boutique hotel, a framework to teach, an expression of your expertise that feels constrained where you are now.
The most sacred version of creativity is building a family.
A marriage that breathes and lives in rhythm.
Children whose lives are woven with yours — wisdom and connection flowing freely, without the conveyor belt constraints of a 9–5 job or standardized education.
But we tell ourselves, “That’s not me.”
“I’m not free-thinking like that.”
“What could I possibly create of value?”
And this is where we’re wrong.
We live in an era where our creativity, when connected to our expertise, can find a grateful audience.
And if done right — it can fund your life.
The modern world kills creativity with distraction, stress, and complexity.
So if you want to reclaim it, you have to build the environment for it.
These are five of my personal creativity boosters — and they’ve become an endless source of ideas, joy, and most importantly, impact.
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