Although inspiration needs space and unfocused time to gestate it is also necessary to plan focused time in a place where we can carry out our creative plans. Moodling and focused work on a project are simply two sides of the same coin. Moodling involves a more open mode where we enjoy letting thoughts come in without an immediate purpose or with any pressure to accomplish. We also need time in a more closed mode we are purposefully implementing our ideas and our options are narrowed somewhat to what will work for the specific project.
Creativity is a cycle including a time of observation and imagination in the early stages.
We then move on to working directly on our plans. This later part of the cycle is the one we are most concerned with in this article. There comes a time when we must sit down and concentrate on our creative projects. We will still find we are observing and using our imagination as we go, but the main focus will be carrying out the work to complete our creation. Finding time and space to work is an important beginning.