How to Transform Perfectionism Into Creativityby Morgan Dragonwillow 5/3/2011 It just doesn’t feel good when you go out to plant a garden and you are frozen with anxiety over what SHOULD be planted where. Or you want to color and the anxiety of getting it just RIGHT makes you want to curl in a ball and cry. The thought of not being able to get it just PERFECT stops you in your tracks every single time. For some perfectionism is the only thing stopping them and they may not even know it. You can transform these feelings of: I am just lazy, that is what everyone keeps telling me. I can’t sing in key so what is the point? I will just ... |
Bringing Back Your Creativityby Chava LeBarton 5/3/2011 Did you know that you can get better at creativity - with practice? This would mean that the older one gets, the more creative he or she is. The article, Age and Creativity (on CreatingMinds.org) states that, "Creativity even affects longevity. It has been proven that people who stay mentally active live longer even than those who stay physically active." This is an invitation to be creative. What exactly is "creativity"? The state or quality of being creative is believed in most cultures to be innate; a natural human gift that we all have. According to dictionary.com, creativity is also ’the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the ... |
Ways to Be More Creative When You Are By Yourselfby Susan Kersley 5/3/2011 It’s not always possible to be in a group or class situation because sometimes you want to access your creativity when you are on your own. Being alone and wanting to be creative can have its advantages so long as you are willing to try some or all of these techniques. Relax fully Start your session for being creative by sitting comfortably and closing your eyes. After taking a few deep breaths and becoming aware of the breath going in and out, begin to relax each part of your body. Start at your feet and move up to your head by tensing each part in turn and then completely letting go. Visualise In your ... |
How to Become More Creative - 5 Tips to Be More Creativeby Susan Kersley 5/3/2011 Take a step back and think ’out of the box’. What does that mean? It means being more creative and here are 5 tips to do just that. 1. Imagine looking at yourself from the outside. Think about watching yourself doing something as if you could see yourself on a stage acting in a play and notice ... |
Creativity - The Art of Lifeby Anjana Dalal 5/3/2011 The most important content of advertising is C.R.E.A.T.I.V.I.T.Y.! Creativity is related to the brand as inseparable as a business from customers. As soon as we take up a project [client] at our agency, then our complete team i.e. from copywriter to visualizer, to graphic designer and all other various departments work as a unit and contribute our creative ideas that can best suit that brand’s positioning in to the market and the ways to organize a budgetary controlled publicity mechanism! After-all, whatever lies in our agency is a creation through our heart n’ soul!! Once while pursuing my education, seeing my acute passion for the creative ideas and suggestions/reforms for advertising industry, my ... |
The Importance of Trying New Things in Discovering Your Creative Sideby Lynn Bradley 5/3/2011 The importance of trying new things in discovering your creative side cannot be overemphasized. You do not know how well you can do something without doing it. After learning the procedure of daily routines, we usually do not even think about it. Our subconscious mind directs us to automatically go through the same motions over and over. New things force us to get off auto pilot and reinvent ourselves. Discovering where you belong is a matter of which one fits you unique abilities. Being creative does not necessarily constitute inventing something. It can be improving processes or procedures. When you find a position that fits your personality and way of doing things, ... |
Creating New Ideas Successfullyby Shane Murphy 5/3/2011 There is a fair amount of information available on-line on how to create new ideas. But there doesn’t seem to be any information on the "entire process" of how to do it as efficiently as possible and keeping expenses down to a minimum and odds of success as high as possible. So, keep reading and l, (a successful toy and game inventor) will share some hard-earned tips to help you along. If you are hoping that you can just sit down somewhere and after a few hours of intense mental thought, come up with a successful board game idea "forget it," it doesn’t work that way. Developing the right mental attitude, not ... |
5 Tips to Generate New Ideas and Inspire Creativityby Jason Lewis 5/3/2011 So! You’re looking at a sheet of paper or at the computer screen screaming for that idea to just jump out at you. You’re being driven nuts. Nothing is forthcoming! Does that sound familiar? It’s a misconception that it is only the chosen few who are creative; we all have the ability. Those creative people who you perceive as being different to yourself are just consciously utilising and developing their skills. Harnessing our inbuilt creativity is a matter of applying the creative powers that we all have and ridding ourselves of negative thoughts. OK, so we’ve discovered that accessing good ideas is not an easy task. There is some truth in the ... |
10 Tips on How to Think More Creativelyby Richard J. O’Neill 1/24/2011 Are you suffering from a lack of creativity or ideas for your business or just in general? I was always very creative, so for me it was never a problem coming up with ideas. However, I still study as much as I can about how to be more creative, and milk my imagination as well as my surroundings for ideas and creativity. It’s amazing how we miss all the inspiration that is all around us, from the weather patterns, to our fellow human beings and their lives, if we would just spend more time immersed in the variety of life, we would be touched by many inspirational moments. The tips I ... |
Creativity Lessons From Kidsby Sheena Witter 1/24/2011 Even while I am teaching I am constantly reminded I have so much to learn. My favorite teachers? Kids. From every child I have taught, I have gained so much. Asking "why?": As we become adults we become more content with a simple, neat answer. Not so with kids. They always want to know why something is the way that it is. They dig deeper, seek to understand. If you have ever had a conversation with a six year old about "why the sky is blue" you will know what I mean. Asking "why?" when we don’t understand something can lead to creative and life changing opportunities. Living the moment: Watching the face of a ... |
Finding Your Creative Passionsby Sheena Witter 1/24/2011 Talking about creativity and passion go hand in hand. It is far easier to be creative when you have passion. What is passion? My favorite definition is Boundless Enthusiasm. If you wake up in the morning excited, or are kept awake at night with ideas and plans and dreams, well you have found your passion. What about those of us who don’t know what their passion is? Or have too many interests they don’t know what to pursue? This post is for you! Discovering your passion is one of the most creative and enlightening things you can do. It gives you direction, especially handy for teens who are always faced with ... |
Be Innovative Nowby Leonard Lambert 1/24/2011 If you are one of those people who think they are not creative, that you don’t have a creative bone in your body, there is good news and bad news for you. The bad news is you’re wrong; the good news is... you truly are creative. Creativity is a process that occurs in the brain when the brain needs to solve a problem. So if you solve any problem, no matter how small, you use the creative process to do so. And since you solve problems all day long just to survive, you are creative. Many people believe there is something mystical about creativity, but the "aha moment" requires no mojo; creativity ... |
A Simple Exercise in Creative Thinkingby Chris Crouch 1/24/2011 In his book, A Whack on the Side of the Head, author Roger von Oech relates an interesting story about creativity. When he was in high school, his teacher put a chalk mark on the blackboard and asked the class, "What is that?" Someone said, "It’s a chalk mark on the blackboard," and the rest of the class seemed relieved that the obvious had been stated. The teacher then told the class, "Interestingly, I did the same exercise with a group of kindergartners and they thought of 50 different things a chalk mark could be." The teacher was trying to illustrate that not only do we learn to look for the one right ... |
Understanding The Creative Processby Mukoro Jude 1/24/2011 Sidney N. Bremrer observed that: "Rich young men who begin where their fathers left off, leave off where their fathers began". They failed because their fathers left them only with the tertiary capital of material wealth and denied them, although not by design, the prime capitals. Their fathers gave them the fruit of their own potency of the mind, without activating the creative effectiveness in their children. The most severe chastisement that you can do any man is to satisfy his need for a moment, without coaching on how to personally sustain or obtain that satisfaction. Any average economist will debate that a capital is any physical asset that has generative ... |
How to Find Creativity - Be Expressive, Be Yourselfby Asia Sharif-Clark 9/6/2010 Self-expression is at the heart of all creativity. How do you find it? By sharing the very essence of your being -with humanity. Use your unique place and experience on this planet to connect to the world around you. Reconnect to those Five Senses, and creativity is everywhere! Feel it and Share it Today, it’s more important than ever to "feel" and be in touch with that feeling. When you experience pain, "feeling it," you’re in a creative state, by having an experience to share. Some of the best songs, books, stories, and tools we use, come from the pain of another. First they felt it, created a solution, then found a way to ... |
4 Paths to a Creative Breakthroughby Karen McMillan 9/6/2010 (Wo)men entrepreneurs know that success is less about strategy and more about centering and intentional action. We also know that it is not about overnight success, but the realization of creative breakthroughs that show up on our journey, at unexpected moments and places, when we blend heart, mind and spirit. A way of being, honoring and realizing a relationship with ourselves and infinite possibility. There are many paths to discovering your creativity, here are four I often travel and wish to share with you. Come with me as I retrace some of the steps on this journey of creativity, innovation and joyful forward movement. 1. Be curious. This is ... |
The Mind and Creativityby Shriram Venkatachalapathy 9/6/2010 It is said that the brain is divided into two hemispheres, the left and the right. Creative thinking, also known as lateral thinking, is the use of the right side of the brain to get ideas. But the right brain alone is not involved in the process of getting ideas. Ideas are based on information gathered and stored in the left-brain through learning. Creative ideas are a need not only in artistic fields, but also form an integral part of every business. In this era, even a homemaker needs to think of a new way to cook or be innovative in presenting her home. So, is everyone Creative? If not, can we ... |
Expand Your Viewpoint With Creativityby Adriana Attento-McKnight 9/6/2010 You have a particular perspective of the world. From this perspective, you experience and view life in a unique way. Your viewpoint is so unique; it has been created by every single one of your experiences - painful and pleasurable, remembered and forgotten, fully or partially lived through. If you’re like most people, that perspective sees the world in mostly limited ways. It is inherent in the conditioning of us all. At the same time, I’m sure you’ve experienced the opening of that viewpoint towards the boundlessness of the universe. When you experience that expansiveness, you might feel that all is fine with the world. Nothing is wrong. In fact, it’s ... |
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