Do you primarily see your life through a lens of scarcity or abundance?

Whether you focus on lack or provision, it will feel true.

Imagine creating something with God that is beyond your wildest dreams. You can’t wait to show others. To launch it. To watch it accelerate as the world discovers it.

A better question than “What are you creating?” is “Why are you creating?” What we create focuses on output. But why we create cuts deeper. It reveals motive.

Superman was my favorite boyhood superhero. He still is.

The Man of Steel is invincible to everything except for one thing. His weakness is a glowing green substance known as Kryptonite.

Our stuck places can feel like a desert we can’t escape that leaves us lost, parched, and isolated. Jesus comes for us in these moments, not to give us just water, but living water.

When something is off with our creativity, it’s hard to know what to do.

It’s the same feeling we get when something’s off with our vehicles.

We’re about to explore the main ways we get stuck and why certain categories seem to derail us more than others.

Before we go there, I want to offer another consideration. Staying in the same place isn’t the same as being stuck.

It’s also not good to cover up our stuck places. Even with the best of intentions, doing so makes us—and our plans—unreliable, slippery, and unproductive.

It’s not good to get used to our stuck places. But that can happen when we live with them for so long we no longer notice their effect or cost.

We love it when things progress without a hitch. Or a glitch. We love smooth sailing in calm water with the wind at our back.

One of my dad’s go-to expressions when facing what he sensed was inevitable was “It is what it is.” I love my dad...and I hate that phrase. The words convey a sense of insurmountable inevitability.

Humans complicate things. God simplifies.

At this point, you might feel the pull to just stick with the way things are. If you do, you’ll stay stuck. So please resist that urge and remain on this journey.

Your current system for how you create has proven itself over time. It is perfectly designed to produce the results you are experiencing.

There’s an old saying that what we feed grows. And we’ve been feeding our stuck places for too long by inadvertently nurturing our glitches.

The best way to identify your stuck places is to consider what seems insurmountable. Not for someone else, but for you. If we keep the concept of the Creativity Glitch at arm’s length, we will limit our understanding to what’s going on in the world around us or in others—but not in us.

One of the first keys to getting unstuck is believing what’s been lost can be found again. This is one of the main things Jesus is passionate about.

Even when we feel stuck creatively, God continues to create within us.

Most of my internship with Quaker Oats didn’t involve the Cap’n Crunch costume but making sales calls at grocery stores in towns and cities across Texas. It’s in that environment that I learned a second lesson on how to get unstuck.

During my college years, I was in a program that required me to secure an internship that aligned with my marketing major. It came down to two choices: Walt Disney or Quaker Oats Company.