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Your Heart's Desire – Getting What You Want
This is a fun and easy exercise, but it is extremely powerful. It can make all the difference in the world in helping you achieve your dreams and get what you want out of life.In a way, getting what you want out of life is a lot like going to the drive-through window of a fast-food restaurant.Read more…Enhance Your Psychic Powers – Using Magic Herbs
There are many herbs that you can easily use to enhance your own natural psychic ability. I believe that we all have these special psychic powers, but because we are usually so busy in the outer world, with all of it's distractions and demands, it is difficult for some people to tap into their natural psychic power.So the trick is to learn how to quickly and simply change gears.Read more…The Essence of Minimalism
Minimalism as a way of life is that of simplicity. It is reductionist compared to the world of the ego, which is almost always expansionist.In minimalism the dominant force is subtlety of feelings.Read more…Of Toilets and Talents
It's been quite awhile since we've had house guests. We live in Florida. Like most people who live in Florida, we have more friends in winter than we do in summer.Read more…Is Manipulation Wrong?
If you choose to stand out from the crowd and become a leader, you must first learn to change yourself to suit their beliefs, needs and expectations. If you are secure in your own character, internally driven, and need no one else to confirm your worth, stop reading and go your own way.You may truly be a creative genius in art, science, or academia, but leadership, will elude you, as well as promotions and personal financial wealth.Read more…Trip the Life Fantastic
I open my front door to get the morning paper and the world is there suddenly stunning me with gratitude, Warm tropical waters lap between my toes Ice drips off the twigs of a gnarled apple tree And across the street, the rusty textured door of a cobalt blue home in Santa Fe glows. But wait, do I live in Santa Fe?A junkyard, a yard sale, the flea market to end-all-flea-markets, an auction of fairy gardens and Joseph Cornell shadow boxes has appeared in my side yard.Read more…Colours In Your Life
Whether we accept it or not, the way we dress communicates something about us. Colours affect movement of our lives although most of the time colour choices are done unconsciously. We all have a favourite colour and often wear clothes of that colour.Read more…Creativity Management: Synthesise Collaboration With Competition
I recently gave a presentation at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design on a topic entitled "Is creativity management an oxymoron?"The essential confusion to people resistant to the idea of "creativity management" was the word "management." Replace it with the word "optimization" and the resistance disappears; all we're really trying to do is optimize the quality of the idea pool and optimize the implementation process.Read more…Get Cre8tive
Every human is creative. There, I've said it. However, you must understand that creativity and artistic ability are not one and the same.Read more…Pump Up Your Brain
According to Nobel prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling, the best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas. Unfortunately, school teaches us to find the right answer, when actually there is usually more than one right answer for a problem.When an adult is challenged to come up ideas, he or she typically generates three to six possible solutions.Read more…New Ways to Free Your Creativity - The Experimental Sandbox
Brian Wilson, after creating what many consider the finest pop album of its time – Pet Sounds - famously went through a period of composing the follow up album – Smile – sitting at his piano in a sandbox in his living room. He claimed it aided his creativity because it replicated the feel of being at the beach and “created a mood that was magic”.He also gave some of his musicians vegetables to play, recorded songs in an empty swimming pool and instructed the symphony orchestra to wear toy firefighter’s helmets.Read more…Mindfulness and Painting: Playing Without Expectations
Painting is my new passion. Who knew?A few days ago, I was talking to my mother on the phone.Read more…How to Draw Fantasy Creatures
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.Read more…You Can Fly!
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.Read more…Perfect Gift Wrap Ideas - Master the Art of Wrapping Your Gifts Beautifully
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...Read more…Lessons From The Subway
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.Read more…Access to the Creative Flow
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...Read more…Creativity and Original Thinking: Suggestions from Personal Experience.
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.Read more…Creativity: The importance of Incubation.
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.Read more…What is Creativity?
Creativity is not mysterious. It can be learned and enhanced with some effort.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.