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Increase Creativity: By Developing The Curiosity Habit
As creative people, one of the simplest and most powerful things we can do to develop and maintain fulfilling creative lives is to develop positive habits.A habit is a behaviour or pattern of actions, often done unconsciously, that we’ve developed through frequent repetition.You may already have in your creative life a number of habits that serve you well, for example writing a journal entry each day, using positive affirmations, visiting a new place of interest once a week, or reading more about creativity each night.Read more…Helping Children To Love Writing, Give Them The Confidence To Write - Two Quick Exercises To Do Now
This one is a challenging exercise, and one for you to do as well when working with children who are reluctant to write.Begin with a description of the ocean. Get them to tell you everything they know about the ocean, using all their senses.Read more…Finding Inspiration in the Exotic and The Mundane
Have you ever noticed that when you finally listen to your intuition and commit to something that may not actually be so convenient or easy to do, you somehow unleash creative and synchronistic energies that move you forward in your mission in life? The sheer trust that we place in this unseen support from the universe takes courage, but it brings so much meaning and connection to our lives. Unforeseen events happen which when you look back, make perfect sense in the scheme of things, but you are not sure how at the time.Read more…How Much Is Enough? Becoming At Peace With Our Creative Output
Creativity can be elusive and complex to describe, and we all have slightly different ideas of exactly what it means to us.However, when we talk of creative people, the images that usually come to mind are those in one of the established creative professions, like a painter, writer or designer.Anyone who is, or desires to be, creative in one of these disciplines, has a way of monitoring their productivity, measuring how much they create, and how much of this they consider worthwhile or good enough.Read more…Kickstart YOUR Creativity - 3 Powerful Tips to Banish Writer's Block
It's the bottom of the 9th – your creativity is at an all time low and you have a web page to write (or a blog entry, or an article, or a story, or a letter, or a thank you note, or a …). That deadline's making you crazy, isn't it?Stop.Read more…Writing For Children Part 2
Too many children’s stories are chosen because they sound good to adults. But children get bored with them. Look at stories that have travelled through time and are as popular with today’s children as they were generations ago.Read more…Writing For Children Part 1
Writing for children is said to be the hardest kind of writing you can choose.Children are the most direct, honest critics you will find. If they don’t like it, they’ll tell you.Read more…Writing For Children Part 3
If you’re stuck for an idea, go to the drawer and get the scissors out, find a piece of card or paper and cut a frame out.Or find an old frame with nothing inside it.Now go and find an interesting spot, and write about everything you see, or imagine you see, in the picture frame.Read more…Automatic Writing - How to Open the Channel
You may have come across the ‘Seth’ books by Jane Roberts or other works by other spiritual or psychic mediums that ‘channel’ their information from sources believed to be external to the authors by means of automatic writing.Automatic writing is a form of writing in which the author appears to lose all volitional control of their writing and instead another spirit or entity takes control of their hands and writes for them. I want to share some of my own writing tips with you so that you may attempt to awaken your own psychic mediumship abilities to channel information by automatic writing.Read more…Become a Chaos Catalyst and Beat the Emotional Tornadoes in Your Life
Since founding her practice in 1978, Helen Harkness has guided more than 8,000 private clients in making life changes that line up better with their Living Goals. Harkness asks new clients to list their success criteria, or things that give their lives purpose. Then they evaluate how their jobs live up to these needs.Read more…After the Uncomfortable Pause - Seven Questions to Immediately Spur Greater Creativity
I’m betting you’ve had the same experience I have in most organizational brainstorming sessions.You are in a room with beige (or otherwise boring) walls and a conference table. Sometime during the meeting, there is a problem or challenge identified.Read more…Back to the Future Movie Shows how to Connect Your Flux Capacitor & Find Your Jiggawat Jackpot
Annette Moser-Wellman, in her book, The Five Faces of Genius: The Skills to Master Ideas at Work, identifies five creative thinking styles or processes of ideation. The metaphors she uses to describe these creative tools are the Seer, the Observer, the Alchemist, the Fool and the Sage. Wellman shares a story about Albert Einstein to explain the importance of the creative face she calls the Seer.Read more…Finding Truth is a Process that Takes Creative Persistence
In The Courage to Create, psychologist Rollo May describes truth as a never-dying process formed by a personal commitment to hear the tapping of our inner-world of questions, even though this wondering may cause us to doubt.“It takes courage,” explains May to express our own creative ideas and to move ahead in spite of our doubts, and the doubts of others. Commitment is a paradoxical idea that “is healthiest when it is not without doubt… To believe fully and to at the same moment have doubts is not at all a contradiction.Read more…Supercharge Your Creativity: The 5 Power Questions to Ask Yourself
Questions are one of the most powerful tools we have available to us. A great open-ended question can be the key to unlocking a whole undiscovered thread of ideas, reaching a fresh new insight on an old familiar issue, and understanding some part of ourselves and our creativity in a different way.Here are 5 “Power Questions” to ask yourself to illuminate the inner workings of your creativity, and as a result give you a new level of awareness and surge of motivation.Read more…Will You Be in the Innovation Hall of Fame?
Whoever invented the “drive-up window” surly deserves a place in the Innovation Hall of Fame. The drive-up window, now so commonplace, was an innovation that transformed the way whole industries do business. That unknown inventor recognized two loves of our society - the automobile and instant gratification.Read more…Creative Day Jobs: 7 Key Reasons Why A Creative Day Job Can Be Great For YOUR Creativity
Whatever your creative talents, and however much you nurture them, the chances are, like the majority of creative people, you’re not able to make a full time living through them.Maybe this is through not yet being in a place where you have enough exposure and opportunity to earn money from your creative work.Maybe it’s because the work you create is not something that could be easily marketed in large enough volumes or at a high enough monetary value to enable you to live off solely.Read more…Creating Tiny Gardens of Weight Loss and Inner Gain
About a month ago, I decided to diet. I had tried a few crazy diet programs before, but never stuck with them, some not even for two days. I remember the only time I did successfully diet, was a diet that I made for myself.Read more…Creativity & Wisdom: Where Does It Come From?
The Spirit of Creativity is often portrayed as child-like wonder and insatiable curiosity. In the Wonder Guide I define this spirit of learning and creativity as a process motivated by passion and purpose, and grounded in living goals.Living goals are valuable and necessary because they generate energy and inspiration and guide us toward a positive future.Read more…Increase Your Potential: Turn Your Brain Into a Creativity Factory
Increasing the imagination is a process of expanding our interior, psychological space to build a metaphorical factory where creativity happens. Eliyahu M. Goldratt uses an allegorical story to explain his Theory of Constraints and emphasizes the need to prepare our minds with a foundation of creative skills to achieve our goals and potential in an ever-changing, global economy.Read more…Take Control of Your Creative Power: Find Your Passion
The first step in taking control of your creative power is to find your passion. Some people think this idea is a fantasy where we can pretend to be in La La Land where everything is easy. Not so.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.