They say acceptance is the first step.

... never take more than you can handle & always know your dealer.

Hello, my name is Carmella. And I’m a Creative. This is my 12-Step Be-more-Creative technique:

1. I accept I am powerless over Creativity.

2. I believe that a power greater than myself exists. And it is Creativity.

3. I have made the decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of Creativity, as I understand it.

4. I make a searching a fearless inventory of everything, creatively.

5. I admit to Creativity, to myself and to other human beings the exact nature of my creative mistakes.

6. I am entirely ready for Creativity to remove my shortcomings.

7. I humbly ask Creativity to remove all these defects from my work.

8. I continue to refer to the list of all the projects and personal artistic endeavors I have wronged.

9. I make direct amends to such endeavors whenever possible, except when to do so would lack in, or injure the Creativity of my work.

10. I then continue to take personal inventory and when I am wrong, I promptly admit it.

11. Sought through concepting, drafting and revision I improve my conscious contact with Creativity, as I understand it, creating for knowledge of Creativity’s will for me so that I might be granted the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a Creative awakening as the result of these steps, I try to carry this message to other Creatives and to practice these principles in all my affairs.