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Struggling to be More Creative? How to Truly Make Space for Creativity in Your Life
Have you ever tried repeatedly to bring certain new things into your creative life, only for them each time to be ineffective or short lived?However many different ways you try, you just can’t seem to make them stick or take hold?Maybe it’s been a habit of creativity you’ve been trying to develop, by writing a few pages each day?Read more…Creative Day Jobs: How to Support Yourself While Pursuing Your Creativity
There are few creative people who are able to pursue their artistic and creative talents whilst earning a reasonable income from just them exclusively.Often the creative work that is most original, most challenging and pioneering, is, due to its nature, without precedent and so not immediately accepted or sought after anyway.How many great painters do we hear of only becoming famous and respected after painting hundreds of canvases?Read more…The Comfort Queen Sallies Forth Unbidden, but Deeply Needed
I write to you from the box of the icky place. The walls of the icky place are constructed of out of whack hormones, sadness over my Aunt's death, a healing crisis from a nutritional program (which allows NO chocolate, that alone should give you some idea of my mood), and my overwhelmed feelings when faced with the scope of what I am attempting to create. The dominant characteristic of the icky place is to want out--out of my skin, out of this mood, out of the moment.Read more…Got Creative Imagination Yet?
Navel, Belly-Button, and Umbilicus1. For the past 2,500 years Buddhists have taught students that their center-of-gravity is located in a region just two-inches below the navel. Focusing your attention on your belly-button, also called your umbilicus and abdomen, centers us mentally as well as physically, and offers us the competitive-edge in learning and career.In Zen training - using your Hara – Japanese for stomach – is critical.Read more…Saying "NO" in Order to Live Your Dreams!
Free Newsletter with up to the minute coaching on business, marketing, networking, self empowerment and successful living. www.irisfanning.Read more…How To Introduce Creativity, Innovation and Changing?
Creativity, innovation and change begin with the top team if possible, i.e. the leadership group.Read more…The World Within You
If you have a highly developed intrapersonal intelligence you will probably have clarity about what you believe – and you might also have strong values. You might also have vivid remembrance of your dreams, and/or constant awareness of your emotional state. You probably also find it easy to talk about your emotions.Read more…Unleashing Creativity - The Link between Humor and the Creative Process
Today more than ever we are required to be creative. From solving managerial problems to coming up with new product ideas to inventing yet another process, the demand is real and increasing. Without tools and processes that can help break the restrictive patterns of selective thought, we’ll continue to work only with what now exists and miss the joy of releasing our natural creative abilities.Read more…Nurturing Hyper Creativity or Curing It?
When we find people in our society who are hyper creative should we in fact cure this problem because it is different than other folks in our communities or should we nurture it and allow the individual increase this gift or ability? Certainly there have been many a creative genius come along in the human race and there is plenty of example of this in human history. Obviously these hyper creative people should be of value to the whole?Read more…Can a Tune Get Stuck in Your Brain?
Recently I went on a business trip to Florida. I was looking forward to sunny Florida and getting a little R & R between meetings. On the morning I was leaving for Florida I happened to pick up a newspaper on the plane that had an article from the L.Read more…Creativity and Innovation Management: Simultaneous Steady State and Radical Disruption
What do creativity managers do?Replace the word management with the word optimisation.That's what creativity managers do: they optimise the quality of the idea pool (creativity) and the implementation process (innovation).Read more…Journaling: A Powerful Tool
At Christmas I went to visit my parents. Helping my mom de-clutter some old paper work, I discovered an old journal I had written. I was appalled by what I read.Read more…Thinking Out of the Box
What is Thinking Out of the Box?Thinking out of the box is the mode of thought that dares to challenge conventional wisdom, ie it dares to question beliefs so deeply held by so many that they are considered almost sacred. Thinking out the box is an all too rare quality, but when applied it can bring revolutionary leaps in human progress.Read more…Creativity - Now That You Have It What Do You Do With It?
A creative person will do their creative thing regardless of finances or circumstances. They cannot help themselves! They are the producers.Read more…Art And Creativity - What Is It? Where Does It Come From?
Are people born creative? Is the urge to make things, to draw, to paint, to just put things together, an inherent part of our being? Many say yes, we are born with the desire to create, hence, the thirst for more knowledge.Read more…The Wonderful And Complicated Organ Called Brain
The actual storage capacity of the human brain has never been measured, although it has been estimated that during our lifetime we store about ten times more information than is contained in all the books in the Library of Congress. Anthony Smith, in his beautiful book, ‘The Mind’ quotes that if a computer were to be constructed like a human brain, there would have to be ten thousand million of the most minutest transistor valves which at a few pence each, would cost 375 million Sterling pounds for a start. All the connections at two cents each would cost far more and the contraption would need an aircraft–hangar.Read more…Curse of the Creatives
If you feel driven, yet overwhelmed by the many diverse life goals you’re having difficulty completing, you’ve likely caught the “curse of the creatives.” Find fulfillment with one of two approaches to goal completion.Your drivenness is caused by your self-expectation that you should do it all.Read more…The Tools of Creation
The tools are ready and keen; our bodies, our senses, our minds, our thoughts.They are the tools that generate our realities.We find ourselves discovering them anew, during the course of our life journeys, as if they were suddenly introduced to us in those moments of clarity by chance, forgetting that they were actually created and fashioned at the brink of our emergence into human existence to serve us for the purpose of manifesting our reality in the existences we were to be passed into.Read more…Inside Your Mind - A Conscious Journey Of Discovery Through Reality
Have you ever wondered how huge the world is that we live in? Of course you have. The world only ever gets bigger as we see more of it.Read more…What is Wildstorming?
Wildstorming is the radical cousin of traditional brainstorming, as it turns the process upside-down and inside-out, where strange and bizarre concepts are the rule.During a wildstorm session, team members suggest absolutely crazy solutions to the core issue which is being examined. Wildstorms are a great place to ponder ideas that are true overkill or prohibitively expensive.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Creativity category
- Creativity and Original Thinking: Act Like a Child - By: Lucretia Torva
When you feel you are not creative, remember what it was like to be a child. Tap into that fresh and creative point of view. - What is Creativity? - By: Lucretia Torva
Creativity is not mysterious. It can be learned and enhanced with some effort. - Creativity: The importance of Incubation. - By: Lucretia Torva
When do your best ideas appear? Is it when you least expect it? There's a reason for great ideas appearing at odd moments and it's just how our minds work. - Creativity and Original Thinking: Suggestions from Personal Experience. - By: Lucretia Torva
A successful visual artist shares tips and tricks to support creative and original thinking. Your great idea may be one simple step away from taking shape. - Access to the Creative Flow - By: Patrice Julien
Imagine what you call reality as being the images of a movie on a screen, the source being a "realistic" scenario inside the projector you are.Without this "SHIFT" we continue to be the slaves of an illusion of "reality" and the victims of our cultural overlays. To illustrate how those overlays shape the energy around us I will take the example of a very deep evidence we all share : the fact that we have to work to get money... - Lessons From The Subway - By: John Dir
In solving problems, I often recall a valuable lesson I learned while traveling the subway in Washington D.C. Some years back, a friend and I attended a large gathering of people from all over the country. - Perfect Gift Wrap Ideas - Master the Art of Wrapping Your Gifts Beautifully - By: Michael Douglas
Haven't there been times when you've received presents that have been wrapped so beautifully that you've let them remain unwrapped simply to admire their beautiful state? Now you too can wrap gifts to perfection and know that people will admire and remember them for a long time to come. Here's how... - You Can Fly! - By: Mark Hamer
Well, it depends on what you mean by ‘fly’ doesn’t it?Let me explain. If you want to fly in business, or in your social or creative life, to fly means to be able to fulfill your potential, to allow your creativity to flower, to exploit your own uniqueness as an individual, to enjoy the freedom of feeling fulfilled and successful. - How to Draw Fantasy Creatures - By: Will Kalif
Drawing fantasy creatures takes some skills that go beyond the normal realm of drawing because you can’t find a subject to pose for you – unless you live in an enchanted forest! So you are faced with not only the task of learning how to draw you are also faced with the challenge of tapping into your imagination and then putting this down on paper. Here are some solid tips that will help you imagine and draw better fantasy creatures. - Mindfulness and Painting: Playing Without Expectations - By: Maya Talisman Frost
Painting is my new passion. Who knew?A few days ago, I was talking to my mother on the phone.