The essence of being gladly human is to be creative. Few things in life are more fulfilling than transforming something obsolete or non-existent into something new, better, faster, less expensive, more lucrative, more efficient, more effective, etc. And the secret to a creative power is to get lost in what you're "creating". Getting lost is essential to finding what's new.
Why? Because you cannot come up with something totally new or different utilising your same old thinking mind. The metaphor and cliché in this strategy is "thinking outside the box". But that's a misnomer because creative imagination is merely partially about thinking. The purpose of thinking and feeling is basically to get things started, get the creative process stimulated - not to get the answer directly. This is where you may get it wrong. The solution cannot be completely thought-out no matter how smart you think you are.
Outside-the-box means outside the conscious, personal, thinking mind and into the subconscious, knowing mind. That's where to find all the creative power and action. That's the faculty in which the answers are sourced. That is the higher level of consciousness you want to operate-on on a regular basis in order to be creative all the time. This is a form of meditation, perhaps the highest form.
All what your thinking mind has to do is merely getting out of the way just to make room for the creative process to unfold. It unfolds from the subconscious by itself to a degree your personal, thinking mind is out of the way - your ego is out of the way! Don't try to push or stress. That's the catch: Your effort needs to be effortless for it to work.
First, think about the new thing you strongly desire to create. Once it's evidently in mind and you are most likely satisfied it is, then overlook it. Drop it. Detach from it. Let it incubate. Allow it sink into the subconscious for advanced processing.
Finally, you should be steadily and patiently receptive to the answer - which is guaranteed to come to the degree you are persistent and certain that it will come.
You become an originator, inventor, explorer of that which is new and different -- what has never been produced or expressed exactly this way before. Your getting lost in uncharted, unknown world is the fantastic joy, thrill and adventure of creation. You were created to be a creator, and fulfilling that purpose is exactly what the good life is all about.