How Travel Helps With Creativity
Are you a creative who loves to travel? Well, there might be a reason for that. Although they seem like worlds apart, travel and creativity actually have a lot in common, and they can both inform the other one. Read on for ways travel can enhance your creativity.
Stress Reliever
A lot of the time when we set out to travel, we have one thing in mind: rest. Usually it’s for a vacation, and your only goal is to sleep a lot and hang out by the pool. And, that’s totally fine! As a creative, it’s important to get in your time to rest and restore so that you can continue putting out artistic work and giving to the community. Traveling is a great time to relieve stress and do things that replenish your energy. Whether that is going to a spa, taking a hike or exploring the local city in your destination, taking the time to relax is essential for artistic pursuits.
Get Creative With Your Itinerary
Creating an itinerary can in itself be a creative pursuit. Have fun when designing your schedule (or lack thereof), and try new things if that suits you! Take roads less traveled, visit hole-in-the-wall restaurants, and just simply explore. Wander around and see what you can discover. This mentality will translate into whatever visionary endeavors you have going on at the moment, and help you put out more original and thought-provoking work.
Natural Beauty Is Inspiring
Have you ever stared at a mountain range and just thought: “Dang.” That’s probably also the feeling you want consumers of your work to get. Observe nature and its beauty and allow it to inspire your innovations. Perhaps that mountain range will turn into your next painting, or inspire your next lyrics. You never know where nature can take you!
Practice Artistic Hobbies
Your travels are an excellent time to practice creative hobbies such as photography, videography and writing. You can also take local cooking classes and craftsman classes such as silver making, depending on your location! And who knows, maybe these hobbies will end up sticking with you and even becoming a career.
Get Inspired by Local Artists
There are always local artists wherever you go. Try to seek them out, go to their performances or events, or simply strike up conversation with them to see how they navigate the art world. You might get encouraged to try something new that can benefit your business!
Throw Perfectionism Out the Window
The beautiful thing about travel (and life) is that it never goes according to plan. There will always be bumps in the road where you have to get creative in figuring out how to solve problems. If you have perfectionist tendencies, travel is a great way to let go and surrender to life and what it has in store for you. This can also help you surrender to creating art and not getting stuck/not shipping your work when you feel it isn’t “perfect” (spoiler alert, that’s unattainable).
Visit a Hub for Creatives
Although anywhere you travel can help with creativity, it is especially advantageous if you visit a place where many creatives gather. For example, there are tons of digital nomads/creatives/entrepreneurs in Bali, Indonesia. You can also find like-minded people in Berlin, London, Portland, New York and pretty much every major city. Florence, Italy is also a wonderful place to visit as there is a lot of art to get inspired by there, and the surrounding nature is stunning as well.
We hope this blog post has given you ideas about how you can use travel to your advantage as a creative. The world is teeming with artistic insight, and it is just waiting for you to explore it. So, what are you waiting for? Get out there, and get inspired! You can also check out the podcast that is related to this blog post here. We are here to help you on your entrepreneurial journey. Reach out to us using the form on this website or by email at team@lilalife.co. Love, light and blessings ✨