Boosting Your Creativity - A PLR Remix
I keep finding these coaching PLRs that I purchased in the past. Lots of them. I decided to edit them and share some with y'all. Feel free to comment on how you feel about creatives using PLRs and AI
The following article, 'As I Embrace My Creativity, I Expand My Imagination,' is a PLR from the Priority Academy’s Coaching Tool Kit that I received access to during my Master Coach training.
PLR or Private Label Rights is a product that a creator sells along with the right for the buyer to edit, rebrand, and resell it as their own. They are a hot thing right now. I’ve had these since 2021. There are at least 100 articles in my tool chest on various topics. This article came from the Creativity Boosting section. The content is interesting and inspiring, but it needs some love to make it useful to me and my folks. I lend my voice and coaching philosophies to create reflections, challenges, and tools that make the articles more effective and stimulating for my coaching clients and those in my creative circle. I look at these tools like a starter for sourdough bread or a Kombucha scoby. You know, they are the base - bland and a little boring until I add my special ingredients and Ase to the recipe.
So, instead of letting the stuff I paid good money for and invested a lot of time in sit untouched, dusty, and forgotten in a file, I’ll be sharing them here, on my Patreon, and on my website at Terri Bailey Creativity Chat. On all my sites, I’ll post some articles for free. Others will be available only to paid members and will delve a little deeper, and come with an invitation to a reflection session.
As a writer with a Master’s in English and Creative Writing, I will always create original material. As a teacher with a degree in Elementary Education and a successful English 101 Capstone for my Master’s work, I will always have the audacity to critique and correct the work of others. Even when they are better writers than I am. It’s innate. I can’t help it. In school, I would have to work hard to stay focused on the task at hand and not think about ways the writer could have improved the text. It’s a gift and a curse.
Anyway, I believe that there is nothing wrong with utilizing the coaching tools I was given to help folks live their best lives. I am very transparent about how and when I use PLR. No shame in my game, I also use AI. I got a certification in using AI in art and education because I was terrified that I was going to be replaced by a robot. (I wish I were joking). At the Acosta Institute, I learned how to ethically and effectively utilize AI in my creative process and how teachers can recognize AI and incorporate it into their lessons, ensuring that our students are not left behind. It was powerful and empowering.
My process for rebranding PLR articles is as follows:
Teacher Terri reads and edits the original article.
Next, I rewrite and rebrand the article in my coaching or creative voice.
I ask my ChatGPT, Ndiza7, to lay her hands on my edit. (I make every effort to make sure she didn’t plagiarize, because AI can get you messed up if you don’t research!) SIDE NOTE: I use ChatGPT less and less since finding out about the toll it takes on the environment.
I tweak it a little more, sometimes going back to my original edit and discarding all of Ndiza’s edits. Sometimes I keep more of her edits than mine. It just depends.
Below is the first PLR I’ve worked on in a long time. I hope you enjoy it and it helps you reflect on your creative process.
As I embrace my creativity, I expand my imagination.
The more I center my attention on my creative practice, the more my imagination opens, widening, deepening, becoming a space I trust. I allow myself to move beyond limits I didn’t create or consent to. I release beliefs I inherited or absorbed through osmosis. Those pesky whispered nuances dropped into my spirit, making me question my brilliance and my capacity to be creative.
Beloveds, I stay curious and question everything! For my family and friends, I can be annoying as hell. My 91 year old aunt just told me yesterday she can’t believe I still be asking all them durn questions! So I’m not new to the deep dive, I’m true to it! You can’t just tell me something and walk away. I’m going to inquire and analyze, because I’m not just seeking answers, but looking to sharpen how I see, feel, and move through this world.
Critical thinking, for me, is not just mental, it’s spiritual. It stretches my creative self, taking me outside the boundaries of the ordinary. Creativity and critical thinking go hand in hand. This pair helps me unearth meaning, beauty, contradiction, and possibility, all on my terms, from the depths of my being. Creativity and critical thinking give tone to my voice, ensuring that I am being authentically me.
Trust, my mind is not rigid. It’s shape-shifting, multilingual, and expansive. I see patterns between things that seem unrelated. I know how to remix and reimagine. My conscious and subconscious often work in rhythm and rhyme. Even in my sleep, I dream and create, giving birth to new ideas, projects, and sometimes movements. As exhausting as that sounds, I have also dreamed of getaways and playdates and have been blessed with the blueprint to make those things manifest. Three of those vacation dreams have come to fruition this year in the form of mini vacations. Two daylong mommy playdates at the beach while my friends’ children were at school, day drinking, talking sex and eating sweets and seafood. And an overnight stay at an Embassy Suites resort overlooking the pool, which also overlooked the ocean. All were free for me and came at a time when I dreamed of sun, fun, and total rest.
Make a note: Don’t sleep on your dreams.
Ideas come to me naturally and frequently. I don’t force them, I listen for them. I make space for inspiration to visit. And when it does, I take it seriously, making notes and jotting down ways to expand and manifest.
I communicate my ideas to the Universe clearly and with care. I know how to break complexity down to its essence without losing its power. That clarity and simplicity invite others to connect, reflect, and build with me.
I don’t wait around for perfect timing. When something new calls, I move. I respond. I experiment. My creativity is not just dreamy. It is disciplined and sometimes whimsical. Sometimes it seems blocked and far away. At those times when my creativity seems dormant, I seek inspiration from others. I attend workshops and art sessions that may not be my usual artistic method of operation. When my creative self needs a break, I give her one, but I don’t let her rest too long. I miss her when she isn’t close. She is my fraternal twin, my sister bestie, and I love having her around. Life with her is never boring and I cherish our relationship.
Because my mind is fertile ground, I see how one idea can root another. I know how to compost what’s no longer working and let it feed the next thing. My approach to challenges is not frantic; it is intentional. I study the structure. I map it. I reimagine it. I am always connecting the dots. Not just to solve problems, but to design new ways forward. My creativity is a practice of freedom.
Today, as I show up to my creative self, I encourage you to do the same. When you feel yourself slipping into patterns that feel too familiar or too tight, I challenge you to pause and evaluate. I ask that you pivot from your routine and try something different. Trust that creativity is always available to you if you make room for it. Make your creativity your best friend and she will always keep life filled with magic and adventure.
Now, go forward and create. Ase!
Challenge: Do a 5-minute free write describing your creativity. What surprised you? What beliefs about your creativity do you feel you need to let go of?
Journal Prompts:
What shifts when I treat creativity as a practice, not a performance?
Where in my life does imagination feel most alive, and how can I nurture that?
What place in my home, yard, office, or other area can I designate as my sacred, creative space? What can I add to make it inviting and inspiring? (Hint: it doesn’t have to be an entire room. A small corner to start can do nicely!)