However much you want to just let go and unleash your creativity, sometimes it feels like running through treacle with lead boots on.

There are many different ways we experience creative block, and a variety of reasons behind them.

The most valuable first step is to recognise the creative block, then we can take action to begin to work through it.

Here's one of the most common forms of creative block and some tips to overcome it:

Creative Block: "My work isn't good enough".

How you know when you're experiencing it:

You're creating less and less because you fear that your work - the art and the projects you create - just isn't good enough.

At some stage, from somewhere or other, you've inherited some measure of what "good enough" looks like and sounds like.

The only problem is, your version of "good enough" in fact to others looking in from the outside is more like "impossibly ambitious" and "perfect in every last detail".

There's nothing wrong with creative ambition - it's highly important to all of us. Being willing to create the best you can is also honourable and admirable.

But striving to be perfect with every project, and as a result not finishing any of them, is simply not healthy and productive for our creativity.

Tips to overcome this type of creative block:

At the root of this creative block is the pursuit of perfectionism. So the natural way to overcome it and work beyond it is to reject - or at least greatly reduce - our quest to be completely perfect with every creative project.

Here's some ways to do this:

Progression not perfection. Replace your pursuit of perfectionism with a pursuit of progressing yourself creatively. With each project aim to give the best creative expression of yourself at this time, rather than the absolute perfect creative expression possible.

Allow creative projects to evolve naturally. Maybe you start writing an article about choosing vegetables to grow in your back garden, then find most of what you're writing is about how to prepare the ground.

So your article goes from being called "Grow Your Own Vegetables: Choosing The Right Produce For You" to "Grow Your Own Vegetables: Preparing The Soil For A Bumper Harvest".

Let it evolve naturally, and you have a great focused new article, plus part of the original article to expand in the future. Resist letting the article evolve and you end up with a single confused, half finished article, that isn't want you wanted anyway.

See each creative project as a learning experience. With everything you create, ask "What can I learn from this project? What do I know about myself and my creativity that I didn't know before?".

If a project gets just too stuck, take a break, create something else. Choose something small, fun and with no expectation. When you return to your main creative project you'll be in a different frame of mind to continue.

Feeling "My work isn't good enough" is just one of the most common creative blocks we experience.

Use the tips above to experiment and start to overcome this form of creative block yourself. Persist and you'll soon see how you're beginning to unleash your creativity.