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Creativity Dwell Time
Sometimes when you are in a creative endeavor and you need to get an idea or further the process it makes sense to allow for creative dwell time. How so you ask? Well creative dwell time can be as short as 20 seconds or a much as a three days or perhaps just sleeping on it.Read more…Creativity Flow Rates
What is your creative flow rate? Have you ever heard of such a thing? Being a creative person is not easy especially when you use your creativity to do your projects, your profession or your hobby and you put your self on a timetable.Read more…Creativity and Full Court Press; Thinking Under Pressure
Too much stress on a creative soul and some creative people just go haywire and cannot seem to keep it going. So, lets discuss Creativity and Full Court Press and the theory of Thinking Under Pressure. Perhaps you have noticed a very creative people cannot seem to do their work when there's a lot of people and commotion around.Read more…Creativity Cadence
Getting in the creative zone and staying there requires a little bit of practice and that means you need to boost the pace a little and get into a creativity cadence. Most creative people will tell you their creativity comes in spurts and if you've ever worked in retail sales at the cash register you know that the customers also come in spurts and that's OK. But I would like to talk to a little bit about creative cadence.Read more…Super Charge Your Creative Mind - Think Tank Topics and Titles
For those folks who have set up impromptu think tanks and they wish to expand their horizons then they will need to perhaps consider more potential topics. Think tank topics and titles are not easy to come up with. In fact categorizing thought is often inhibited do to the linear selection of subjects and this makes it hard to discuss new ideas, when the group is stuck discussing all the former topics.Read more…Creativity Gone Ballistic
Well there certainly are some creative people in the world that's for sure and everywhere we go we see creativeness. For instance if you pick up a paper and you read the articles many of them were written with a little creativity and the people they interview are in business, sports, politics, nonprofit organizations or just enjoying life and in their own world creativity, this is evident by their quotes in the paper. When we look in the newspaper we see cartoons made by creative people as they use cartoons in humor so we can laugh at ourselves and think.Read more…Change 101: How to Respond Creatively When You Are Confronted with Change
I recently spent a few days at the beach, trying to slow down the end of summer.While enjoying the surf, it struck me that playing in the waves is a great metaphor for dealing with change. Much like change, a wave is a force you just can't fight.Read more…Developing Your Intuitive Business Skills
At some time, each of us has had a gut instinct. It’s a moment when we just know something feels right, but too often we discount these instincts or intuitions as lacking any basis in fact. However, most successful business men and women will tell you that when you ignore your intuition, you limit your decision-making capabilities.Read more…Unlocking Your Creativity
As an avid crafter, I often give handmade presents to those among my family and friends who appreciate this type of gift. For her birthday last year, I gave my best friend an amethyst necklace, bracelet and earring set. She loved it but responded as so many people do with a self-deprecating compliment: "You're so talented.Read more…Luv Your Brain and Feed it Pictures
Peg System: 20-100You know Zero to Ten (0-10), Zero is a Hero, and Ten is a Hen. Now we add Twenty to One Hundred (20-100), Virginia to Century.a) What is thirty-three?Read more…Increase Creative Self-Belief: Overcoming The Danger Of Negative "Snap-Back"
Isn’t technology wonderful when it actually improves our daily lives?An example is a product that’s used for the frames of many modern pairs of glasses. Flexon is a laws-of-nature defying material that has its own “memory”, allowing the frames to instantly return to their original shape when they’ve been bent or distorted.Read more…Creativity Secrets Revealed: The Best Place to Start Your Next Creative Project
Under the banner of creativity there are a huge number of different disciplines and media that can be considered as creative, and expressions of our creativity.There are those best known professions, creating the “Classic Arts” such as Novelist, Painter, Musician, Film Maker, Photographer and so on, as well as a large and diverse number of other equally valuable and important highly creative professions from architect to basket weaver, video game designer to choreographer, and stand up comedian to biochemist.What all of these professions, and all of these varied types of creativity have in common is that they all create.Read more…Increase Creativity: New Creative Wardrobe - Where Would YOU Start?
Imagine that you lost all of your clothes in a domestic disaster like a fire. In some ways you’d probably be very upset at losing some of the garments that you love, make you feel good about yourself, and trigger off happy memories.Looking at it from another perspective, there were probably lots of garments you hadn’t worn in months or years, just taking up space and gathering dust.Read more…Are You as Lazy as You Dare to be?
Lazy as we Dare to be?How much effort would you expend to permanently double your retrievable memory? Before you answer, would you be motivated to change your status- quo, your comfort-zone, if your peers, instructors and career-superiors began to think of you as their resident genius – the go-to individual who remembered it all?Read more…Shake Your Brain a Little
Good Day – SpeedLearners: Take two-minutes to refresh your mind – now!Please read and retain: What you focus on today, expands tomorrow – so let’s focus our curiosity on improving these four skills:1. Healing – ‘Every day in every way with help, we’re getting better and better.’ Emile Coue`2.Read more…Einstein's Mental Snapshots Rule
Einstein and Mental SnapshotsThe name A. Einstein is a universal metaphor for genius and intelligence. Even those of us who are math and physics challenged may be aware of terms like E=MC2, General and Special Relativity, and his Nobel Prize in 1921 in physics for the Photoelectric Effect.Read more…Overcome Creative Block: When The Best Creative Work Is Not Just In The Words
Imagine this scenario: You’re a prolific writer, a veteran of a dozen critically acclaimed and best selling novels, and currently deep into the juicy heart of your latest work.The words are flowing like Niagara Falls after a week of torrential rain, your characters are rich, alive and thriving, the story is galloping along like a herd of wild angry buffalo, and creatively, nothing could be going better.And then, without warning, it hits you.Read more…Increase Creativity: The Invisible Threads That Hold Together A Creative Life
For most creative mediums and forms of expression, there is some tangible way of measuring how much we create.The value and quality of this output we often see as a secondary measure, believing it’s more important to write 5000 words of anything than 50 words of dazzling compellingly original prose.There’s something about the bulk factor that soothes us, reassures that yes we are creative, more importantly we are ACTIVELY creative, we go to our creative workspace, create huge and create often.Read more…Creative Authenticity: What's Your Biggest "Project in the Closet"?
As actively creative people, we can have any number of creative projects in progress at any one time. These can be of different types and styles, and vary in size, complexity, depth and ambition.We all work a little differently, and finding what gives us best results, what helps us create most effectively and with most meaning, is all part of living our authentic creative life.Read more…Problem Solving: Just Sleep On It
Ever have a nagging problem that you cannot resolve? Can't sleep, tossing and turning with a million things in your head? Feeling under pressure and stressed out because you just don't have enough time in the day to get to every little detail?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.