Creativity is a valuable skill that can help you in many aspects of life, but it can also be challenging to cultivate and maintain.  You may feel stuck or uninspired, and you can't seem to generate any new or original ideas. Today’s guest, Helena Holrick has some great tips to help you get unstuck, reframe your fear of making mistakes and keep your creative passion burning.

Helena Bio

Helena Holrick is the Chief Cheerleader at Helping You Shine, where she gets entrepreneurial creative souls into alignment or back on track.  She helps you ‘Succeed As You’ through personal growth, practical learning and professional guidance.    

Having trained thousands of people in diverse organisations for over 30 years, and coached hundreds of entrepreneurs, Helena knows that structure and systems are the key to success for every business. She’s trained in many tools, models and qualifications to support personal and business growth – including Clean Language, NLP and Strategy On A Page. She’s strategic and creative, using her perspectives and learning to define and reframe individual success, so it’s sustainable and manageable and growth is possible for all those she works with.

Her core philosophy at Helping You SHINE is to help you  ‘Find, Own and Share Your Brilliance’.  Her signature programme ‘Trust Yourself To Start Anew’ is focused on getting you the clarity, certainty, and confidence to live a life you love - sharing what you know, making the impact you want to make and bringing your unique brand of creativity and perspective into the world.

She’s tireless about helping you overcome your hesitation and step out of hiding so you can make your difference by using your creativity, building connections and being the contribution you want to be.

● [02:33] – The Edge – up to date creative news and views

● [04:37] – Helena tells us about her brand of creativity

● [08:07] – Nikki asks Helena ‘What are the common things that hold people back?’

● [12:25] – Nikki shares a useful tool to combat comparisonitis - The 4 stages of learning

● [13:38] – Helena talks about the fifth stage – reflective competence

● [18:37] – The foundational steps to take before a creative switch.

● [22:33] –  Helena advises taking the time to learn and enjoy the learning

● [23:52] – Nikki recalls a recent mindfulness tip from Jay Shetty

● [25:54] – A life ‘On your TERMS’ – Helena explains what it means.

● [28:47] – Finding your Creativity – it’s all about the ‘exploring’

● [32:00] – A discussion around connections and connectivity.

● [35:58] – Finding your purpose and then what?

● [44:08] – Creative Adventures – How to deal with feeling vulnerable about your creativity

Four Creative Nuggets

“Belief systems are pesky...” To replace an old unhelpful belief, ”you might have to have three or four interim beliefs” to embed a new one." HH

“If you really want to master your expertise or your creativity, it pays to actually go. And how am I learning that? And what am I actually doing that allows that to happen?.” HH

“You know that you're feeling creative simply by the feeling.” HH

“Inspiration is the spark that helps to join the dots.” NV

Links

Helena

https://www.helpingyoushine.com/