How to Live a Creative Life in Your Spare Time

Making time to create during the weekly grind.

As a creative-with-a-capital-C person, the need to make things is embedded deep into my personality. It’s fairly easy to find time to work on a DIY project or write blog posts or take photographs or paint something when you’re in college, and your schedule consists of four classes every week and that’s about it. But ever since I’ve started working full time, I’ve realized how difficult it is to balance my time. I’m lucky to work in a job that allows (and basically hinges on) me flexing my creative muscles, but still, creating things for yourself is a whole different animal. I figured the old cardinal rule is true – if I’m feeling it, other people must be feeling it also. So I figured I’d share my tip and tricks for being a creative free-spirit even when you’re working 40+ hours a week.