3 Steps To Gain Massive Momentum With A Creative Retreat

Every quarter, Becca and I do what we call a “creative retreat”.

It’s an opportunity for us to get away from business, from life, from stress, and just reconnect with nature, ourselves, and each other.

To be honest, I’m amazed that hardly anyone ever talks about this.

Just about every high-level, high-performing entrepreneur I know of does it regularly.

Yet, it seems that people want to believe that the key to their success is just hustling and grinding a little bit harder.

As entrepreneurs, we’re hardwired to take advantage of every opportunity to get ahead, but sometimes it can cause us to work to the level of burnout to reach our goals.

Periods of hustle and grind are really effective for gaining momentum, but if they’re not paired with periods of rest and recovery, the returns diminish over time.

Every time we take time off to do a creative retreat, we come back to the business with greater clarity and higher energy, and it kicks off another period of massive momentum.

It’s like taking one step back to make ten giant leaps forward.

A massive momentum boost

Taking a creative retreat can generate a huge amount of clarity for your business.

But if you want to see a huge momentum boost when you get back to work, that clarity needs to be paired with a winning strategy.

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Now let’s talk about how to do an effective creative retreat…

Where do I go?

First things first, the location of your creative retreat is really important.

The “change of place and change of pace” is a jolt to your creative system.

It has a way of resetting your creativity and allows your brain to operate in a flow state when you’re physically away from your default location.

So choose a place away from your day-to-day that feels inspiring to you.

For me, that’s usually a cabin in the woods or a unique place somewhere in the mountains.

But we’ve also done a creative retreat on a cruise.

And our last one was in a nice clean high-rise apartment overlooking Salt Lake City.

I like using Airbnb to find unique and interesting places that we can go to get away.

Whatever you do, find a place that inspires you and makes you happy.

How long do I spend?

On a small scale, a mini creative retreat could be a day away from the office.

Or it could be an entire month off.

For our quarterly retreats, I find that inspiration starts to strike usually after about 2 days.

So a good retreat for us is usually between 3–5 days.

That gives you enough time to really settle your nervous system and reset your creativity. And then capture your inspiration when it starts flowing.

At the beginning of the retreat, you might find yourself feeling anxious to go back to work.

This is your body’s natural rhythm, and you need to break it to get to the depths of your creativity.

By the end of the retreat, you’ll likely start to feel inspired to go back to work.

This is a good sign.

It means that your creativity is flowing, you’re feeling inspired, and you have extreme clarity on how you should move forward.

What do I do?

The key to a good creative retreat is that you spend a few days doing… nothing at all.

This might seem weird at first, but my most effective retreats have always been when I didn’t have anything planned.

This is not a time for distraction-free productivity.

It’s not time to do your quarterly planning.

The point is to get away.

If this feels a little too extreme for you, then go in with *one single intention—*a question in your mind that you’re trying to answer.

But don’t try to force it. Simply place that question in your subconscious brain and let it flow.

Spend time writing, journaling, reading, meditating, or listening to audio books.

You should spend time being bored, but it doesn’t have to be boring.

Do some light activities or something fun (sometimes we’ll go see a movie together in the middle of it, because it’s something we love to do).

A simple practice

The concept of finding “creative space” has been revolutionary for making me more creative, innovative, and successful in my life and business.

Instead of hustling and grinding all the time in your business…

If you want to see real results in a sustainable way where you can have a great lifestyle while scaling a powerful business.

Make sure you get into the routine of taking creative retreats periodically throughout the year, and watch your impact and your income soar.