5 ways to break through creative blocks for freelancers

Every freelancer experiences the creative blocks and the struggling for that new killer idea. It's frustrating to keep looking for inspiration, but nothing pop up in your head. It becomes more frustrating when you are running out of time with project deadlines. One important thing to know is your creativity and awesome ideas didn't go away forever, it's just a temporary state that can be broken.

Find below some ways that will help you to break through creativity block.

1- Keep your spirit high
Understand that the creativity block is normal and it happens to all designers, it's not just you. Don't lose faith in your design capabilities and stay in a good mood, this will increases your creativity and make it easier for you to get inspired.  

2- Find time for inspiration
Find time to get inspired by doing enjoyable things like listening to an inspiring music or read interesting quotes. Don't just think about deadlines cause looking to that date won't break those creative blocks, rather than that you will become more frustrated. To keep up with your deadlines rearrange your outstanding tasks and reallocate time for those tasks so you can free up time for relaxing and changing your mood

3- Put down your ideas and have fun with them
Put down your original idea and have fun working with it even when it doesn't  seem interesting in the first place. Finish what you've started cause it may turn into something great.

4- Try new things
Don't afraid of using new techniques or bringing new cultures into your work, you can turn something you are not comfortable with into something interesting and new.

5- Bring fun into your studio
Bring new colors and joyful element into your studio, always fill your studio with new energy so you will always enjoy working in it.

The Bottom line is you don't have to worry when you experience those creative blocks, take time to rest and refresh your mind. If you think you will have problems with your time and projects deadlines, you can use acclux timer that can help you to manage your projects and tasks so you will always have the ability to view your outstanding tasks and do all the necessary changes to the time allocated to each task to stay in line with projects progress and deadline.

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