- Boost Your IQ: Techniques to Increase Your Intelligence Quotient Today By : Stivenson
It is possible to enhance your intelligence quotient in a matter of 10 minutes. Some techniques to do so are discussed below. Don't you want to enhance your IQ? Of course, you can use the brain power exercises and techniques. But these are long term and you would need to regularly practice them. What if you want to boost your IQ now, when you don't have more than 10 minutes. - Good IQ Score: The Myth And The Truth By : Stivenson
There might be some people who claim to have a very good IQ because they have scored good in some tests. Some go to the extent of displaying their IQ score wherein sometimes the score is said to be as high as 120! The intelligence is directly proportional to the score – so is the prevalent belief. But such a claim and belief is false and biased. Each IQ test is unique, hence a high score in one test may cannot be compared to an average score of another test. - A Psychics Philosophy On And Insight Into Authentic Writing Style By : Frederick Gimino
Being a psychic and owning a psychic website requires writing for the mean reader. Unfortunately, the act of crystallizing thoughts into coded words to create a primary text from a dynamic creative thought process often leaves lingering questions. These Questions, often regard the authenticity and true meaning of the primary text. - 7 Tips to Shock Your Out of Your Creative Rut By : Andrew Leigh
7 ideas to set your imagination free and fly out of even the deepest of creative ruts. - Flower arranging - the love of flowers and colors is all you need By : zaczebra
Flower arranging - the love of flowers and colors is all you need - All the Time in the World to Follow Your Creative and Artistic Path? By : Andrew Leigh
When is the right time to get serious about your creative instinct? How long are you willing to put off your exploration? - Who's The True Creative You? 5 Questions To Help Unlock Your True Creative Self By : Dan Goodwin
All of us in our everyday lives have to play a number of different roles, and put on a variety of personas. Different parts of life require different abilities to come to the fore, and similarly, different people bring out different parts of our personalities.But, when you come home at the end of the day, and are able to remove all the various hats, relax and detach from the expectations of the various roles you play, who is it you're left with? Who's the true creative you?Here are 5 powerful questions to help you get closer to your true creative self - Short Sleeves Insights- The Elephant, The Candle, And The Eye Of The Sea By : Hal Manogue
As I was looking through Andrew Harvey's book, "Teaching Of Rumi," I found this wonderful story Rumi wrote in his Mathnawi - Short Sleeves Insights - Are You Ready To Make A Leap? By : Hal Manogue
"We are on the verge of the new age, a whole new world. Human consciousness, our mutual awareness, is going to make a quantum leap. Everything will change All this is going to happen just as soon as you are ready." - Why You Should Become A Mastermind By : Jimmy Roos
We all know what happened after September 11, when airlines and other firms started to downsize. Thousands and thousands of highly qualified people were laid off to roam the streets looking for jobs. Thousands more left colleges and joined the thousands already on the streets hoping to find a job. - Warning - Reading These 7 Books May Change Your Life By : A. H. Scott
Have you ever noticed how many ways you can be busy in order to avoid things that are not comfortable for you to do? I was quite good at avoiding reading, until the day I read Matthew McConaughey's story in Parade Magazine. - The Creative You By : Michelle Morovaty
The Creative you is you.How do you know? I know that you know. You know that you are.Your Creative you is active all the time.How do you know? You know as you know that you wake up in the morning. You know as you know that you drink your water, tea, juice, coffee or any other drink. - Creativity - What Can I Do On Monday? By : Derek Cheshire
You've heard the talk, read the book, bought the T-shirt but what practical steps can you take on Monday morning to help creativity to flourish? - Colour Healing: Bringing More Gold into Your Life By : Lucy Costigan
Gold derives from yellow and is the colour of wisdom. It is the colour of old souls and sages, of protection and deep healing for past wounds which still linger and need special healing. Gold signifies the highest spiritual colour. - Unleash Your Creativity - How Creating A Little Each Day Can Help You Be More Creative By : Dan Goodwin
Creating a little each day is quite probably more powerful and fundamental to a highly enjoyable and rewarding creative life than any other.It's the key and the cornerstone to producing wonderful creative works over and over again, and growing and developing our creativity to new levels as we do.So here's how, in 5 simple steps, you can apply the technique effectively in your creative life: - Unleash Your Creativity - How Rewarding Your Creative Achievements Can Help You Be More Creative By : Dan Goodwin
We nearly always find it easier to acknowledge and give praise to the creative achievements of other people, and stand in awe at what people accomplish in their creative lives.How many times have you found yourself thinking "Wow, I wish I could be as creative as they are" ?When it comes to our own creative achievements though, most of us suddenly developed an acute blindness to the bare reality.So here are two simple steps to rewarding our creative achievements, and therefore helping us increase our creativity: - Unleash Your Creativity - How Chunking Down Your Creative Projects Can Help You Be More Creative By : Dan Goodwin
Often, as creative people we're highly ambitious with our creative projects, and have ideas for vast far reaching work that'll change our world, and touch the lives of many others. This is all fantastic and gives us plenty to aim for. But then what usually happens right after is we expect to go from having the initial ideas to completing the project in a couple of days, a completely unrealistic timescale. The alternative is to "chunk down", break the project down into manageable chunks and approach them one at a time, building momentum as you go. Here's how this helps increase creativity and why- - From Competition to Co-creation - Expanding Your Playing Field to be at Choice By : Michelle James
Move beyond your "resonant mode." Every time we expand our habitual paradigm or mental playing field, new choices, options and possibilities open up. By yes-anding each of the 4 collective modes, creative choice emerges. - Look At Old Ideas With A Fresh Pair of Eyes By : Carl Mays, CSP, CPAE
Everyone faces challenges and problems, and everyone has the tendency to become shackled by old ways of thinking about things, making it difficult to develop new ideas about ourselves, our companies, and the people with whom we work and live. That's when it might be a good time to ask the question, "What if?" - Stuck for an Idea - Tap Your Creativity By : Cheryl Leitschuh
Truly creative ideas often seem very simple - once somebody has thought of them. But how do you get a truly creative idea? Here are some ways to generate your creativity. - Creativity is Magnetic - 4 Ways to Boost Your Brain By : Scott Ginsberg
Even if you're not the most outgoing person, creativity is your surefire road to success. - The Who, What, Why, Where, When and How Of The Impossibly Humble Radish By : Robert Daniel
I like to think of a guarded, shy little man in a sombrero furtively dressing up as a radish and frolicking around his neighbourhood at midnight because it's 'his thing', a fetish he cant resist and, for reasons best known to themselves, his fellow Mexicans joined in. - Unleash Your Creativity - How Finding The Right Creative Environment Can Help You Be More Creative By : Dan Goodwin
Finding the right creative environment can help you be more creative.If we try to give ourselves fully to creating when all around is chaotic, noisy and distracting, we're not likely to produce much creative work that we're happy with or that highlights our creative potential.We're simply not giving ourselves a fair chance.So here are the two main types of creative environment that can help us, and how: - Walking and Creativity By : Phillip Bilzon
We can often think that the main benefit of walking is physical. However, Thom Hartmann, author of Walking Your Blues Away, thinks there’s more to walking than just good physical health. - Unleash Your Creativity - How Getting Yourself A Cheerleader Can Help You Be More Creative By : Dan Goodwin
Creating can be a lonely process and it's all too easy to stuck in a tangle of our own thoughts and lose perspective and focus. Before we realise it, our minds can feel overloaded with a combination of negative doubts and inner criticisms, and about as organised as a plate of spaghetti Bolognese thrown against a wall. So something of great value is having someone to be your cheerleader. Your cheerleader in this sense is simply someone who will encourage and support you and your creative work. Here's how to pick a good one for you… - The Success Train - Or What Station Do I Get Out At? By : Susan Feder
Are you unknowingly holding up your own success? Statistics show that less than 26% of people turn their dreams into tangible results. Which means that 74% of the population never allow their dreams and goals to come to fruition; they just swirl around in their minds and always remain what ifs, should haves, and could haves. Goals must have a measurable result with a time frame for completion. A measurable goal is quantifiable. - Turn Your Mind's Creative Imagination into Experience By : Jeremy MacDonald
Albert Einstein said that the greatest creative force in the universe is creative imagination. Learn how to use the power of subconscious mind to turn imagination into experience. - Unleash Your Creativity - How Giving Yourself Time To Learn Can Help You Be More Creative By : Dan Goodwin
Giving yourself time to learn and develop can help you be more creative.The only way we can truly learn, develop and evolve as creative artists, and as human beings, is through experience, through trying out something, seeing what works for us and what doesn't, then doing more of what does work, and less of what doesn't.It's OUR creative life, we can make a deal with ourselves when we start each new project as to how it’s going to be, and how we will approach it, so it's as fulfilling as possible.To make this easier, focus on these 3 key elements: - Unleash Your Creativity - How Listening To Yourself Can Help You Be More Creative By : Dan Goodwin
Listening to yourself can help you be more creative.So what does this mean, listen to yourself?You may feel you've heard all you have to say to yourself about your creativity. Maybe you find most of it often comes out as pretty negative and unconstructive comments.But have you truly LISTENED to your creative self?Here's how to start today - Unleash Your Creativity-7 Ways YOU Can Tap Into The Unstoppable Flow Of Your Inner Creativity Today By : Dan Goodwin
How often in YOUR life do you truly unleash your creativity?How often do you feel that you’re creating as naturally and fully as you’re able, where ideas and action all flows easily and freely?It’s very likely that you’re not creating as often, or as fully, as you'd like to be.So here are 7 simple ways you use to can tap into your inner creativity today: - Short Sleeves Insights - Just Let That Creativity Flow By : Hal Manogue
"When we speak of nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe". - Where Did My Mojo Go? By : Karen Senteio
Mojo is in your heart and your head. Bring it back to life by recognizing it was temporarily buried, and knowing you have the ability to recapture it again. - Permission To Create - Why The Gateway To Your Creative Dreams Is Always Locked By : Dan Goodwin
Do you find in your creative life that you keep coming up against the same old stumbling blocks? Whatever your approach, time and time again you get so close to your creative dreams - and the creative life you truly want - before somehow falling short of the target? In fact, all that's stopping you from moving closer to your creative dreams can be summed up in a single word. Read on to find out more- - Improve Creative Output with Organic Goal Setting By : Andrew Leigh
Been turned off by the apparently hard, businesslike science of planning and goal setting? Then try the altogether more friendly approach - Organic Goal Setting. - Writer's Block - A New Perspective To Help You Overcome Writer's Block By : Dan Goodwin
Writer’s block, or creative block to use a wider reaching term, is one of the most common issues with writers and other creative people. Creating in this frame of mind feels about as easy as if we were trying for the world 100m breast stroke record in a swimming pool of thick treacle. So changing our fixed perception of writer's block is a major step in feeling less fearful of it and experiencing it less often. Read on to find out more - Creativity Is For Life Not Just For Workshops! 3 Top Tips By : Dan Goodwin
Picture the scene. You've just returned from a weekend break away, a creative retreat. You've enjoyed the weekend immensely and come back feel more energised and in love with life and your creativity than you have done in years.After a few days (or even hours!) back in your normal world though, the events and impositions of daily life start to take grip on your creative work again, and the red hot spurt of motivation you experienced has become more of a lukewarm trickle.What happened? Why didn't the creativity and the energy last?Well, creativity is for life, not just for workshops. Here are 3 top tips how you CAN maintain that creative energy in your daily life, not just the occasional weekend: - The Decision Factor By : Susan Fuller
Recently, I received an e-mail filled with "I'm trying to" and "I'm hoping to." When I hear that kind of language my heart sinks. All of those good intentions will likely lead nowhere because no real decision has been made. Without a clear, committed decision, success is unlikely. - The Secret Behind The Secret By : Susan Fuller
As The Secret streaks across the planet with dizzying speed, this seems like a good time to revisit this thing called 'The Law of Attraction'.Clever marketing aside, 'The Law of Attraction' is real and is operating in our lives at all times. It only takes paying the slightest bit of attention to see that. Why then, is it such a problem for so many people to achieve what they want in life? - Whole Brain Thinking By : Michelle James
Take this quiz to determine your brain dominance and learn 4 whole brain integration techniques. - How to Follow Your Creative Flow AND Keep Your Business Profitable By : Tamara Esgoode
Creativity and inspiration are essential to any business venture. Without these, your business will become stale and may even begin to lose profitability. Owning a business means that you will constantly be in a state of change and improvement, and so it is crucial to stay connected with your own creative flow. - Increase Creativity - How To Become A Creative Gardener & Nurture Your Creativity For A Full Harves By : Dan Goodwin
As creative artists, there's much we can learn from our outdoor loving, horticulturally passionate colleagues Here are just a few tips on how you can become a better Creative Gardener and see your Creative Garden give an abundant crop season after season: - Creative Evolution - Letting Your Creativity Flow Naturally Without The Feeling Of "Selling Out" By : Dan Goodwin
It's natural and healthy as creative people to want to be on an upward spiral of our own personal creative evolution.When this spiral of creative evolution begins to change from simply steadily moving onwards and upwards, into wanting every creative project to be an exquisitely perfect work of unparalleled creative genius, that’s where the problems occur.How often have you felt that by not following the original plan for a creative project that in some way you’re selling out or letting yourself down? - Be More Creative - 7 Reasons Why Everything You Create, Perfect Or Not, Has A Valuable Purpose By : Dan Goodwin
Trying to be absolutely perfect in every detail with everything we create is an easy habit to get into.The fact is, whoever we are, everything we create WON'T be perfect. - What Makes The Creative Geniuses The Brilliant Innovators That They Are? By : Lance Winslow
Creative Geniuses are brilliant in many ways and yet the stereotypes we think signify the creative genius mind or personality are often bathed in myth or common folklore. Creative Geniuses have been misunderstood throughout time and yet time plays such an important factor in their lives. These brilliant innovators to truly shine must own the Clock and be masters of their time, not beholden to schedules to enjoy the flow of their creative endeavors. - Planning And Goal Setting For Artistic Creativity - A Message For The Terrified By : Andrew Leigh
I know that many successful artists have harnessed the dark arts of planning and goal setting to their advantage. But it's my guess that for many more, any thought of imposing any kind of order on their creativity is enough to have them crouched and quivering in a corner. - Original Thinkers Must Have Massive Data - Information And Observational Input By : Lance Winslow
Every industry has super innovators and creative geniuses. These are the people who make change, but for such original thinkers they must have massive amounts of data and information input. Indeed that information input must also span across several industries or industry sub sectors to do any good. - Data Dumping For The Creative Genius Of Original Thought By : Lance Winslow
Creative geniuses have to be careful that they do not get too caught up in all their ideas. Some creative geniuses have two or three excellent ideas per day. Many of the concepts they create are not economically viable although they are quite unique. Therefore a creative genius will need to data dump. Or simply put the idea into a computer or tape recorder and forget about it and move on. - Planning and Goal Setting for Artistic Creativity – a Message for the Terrified. By : Andrew Leigh
I know that many successful artists have harnessed the dark arts of planning and goal setting to their advantage. But it’s my guess that for many more, any thought of imposing any kind of order on their creativity is enough to have them crouched and quivering in a corner. - Creative Triggers and Connections - the Sparks and Flames of Artistic Output By : Andrew Leigh
Have you ever been hit by a bout of unexpected creativity? How to encourage free creative thinking. - Creativity Management - The Value of Structure By : Kal Bishop
The common belief is that lack of structure and randomness enhances creative output, whereas in truth, creativity is enhanced when it is organised, systematic and based on highly structured processes. - Unleash Your Creativity And YOU Can Change The World By : Dan Goodwin
As individuals, however creative we may be and however much we want to change the world around us for the better, it's easy to feel disheartened and powerless. "How can I alone make any difference, I'm only one person out of billions"? many of us regularly ask ourselves. Well, the greatest gift you can offer the world is your full true creative self. And you may be helping to change the world already in more ways than you realise- - Creativity Managment - Masks and Trance By : Kal Bishop
One useful import from the field of Improvisation is the concept of Masks and Trance to get people thinking in different directions. - Unleash Your Creativity - 3 Powerful Ways To Capture & Grow More Creative Ideas By : Dan Goodwin
The nurture of new creative ideas can be difficult.Once we get a few creative ideas recorded and growing, before we know it there's another and another, and soon we're overflowing with more ideas than we know what to do with.The more creative ideas we have, the more we seem to have, we've just got to get the cycle going.So here are 3 powerful ways for YOU to capture and grow an abundant flow of creative ideas: - Increase Creativity- Become A Highly Charged Creative Lightning Rod For New Ideas By : Dan Goodwin
If we are to be more creative, and have more creative ideas, we need to adopt some of the properties of a lightning conductor. We must find ways to attract ideas and let them flow to us and through us with as little resistance as possible. Here's a great way of putting this into action- - 3 Ways to Unleash Your Creativity By : Paul Keetch
Everyone experiences times when they are unable to tap their innate creativity. If you're under pressure to perform, here are three easy things you can to do get that creative spark back in your body. - Creativity Tool - The Five Senses By : Amir Elion
This article suggests how you can use the five senses as a creativity tool. The article includes a detailed explanation of the tool and a demonstrative example. It is one of a series of articles that offer simple and practical creativity tools. - Creativity Tool - Children By : Amir Elion
This article discusses how you may harness the natural creativity and curiosity of children in order to come up with creative ideas. In fact, it suggest a way to "turn children into" a powerful "creativity tool". This tool is one in a series of creativity tools covered in several articles. - New Ways To Create - 5 Ideas To Help You Experiment, Liberate And Reach Beyond! By : Dan Goodwin
Whatever medium we’re creating in, it can be easy and very productive to get into a strong flow, but also dangerously easy to get in a creative rut.Productivity, and finding the methods, environments and routines that work well for our creativity is one thing. But becoming a human photocopier and churning out almost identical pieces of creative work time and time again is something else entirely.Anyone who’s committed to progressing and evolving creatively must be prepared to experiment.So here are 5 quick ideas to give YOU new ways to create: - Creativity Tool - Extreme Results By : Amir Elion
This article describe the "Extreme Results" creativity tool. This tool is especially appropriate for coming up with creative ideas in advertising and marketing. The article includes a detailed explanation of the tool and a demonstrative example. - Creativity Tool - Role Swap By : Amir Elion
Sometimes the thing that is blocking you from making a breakthrough is the fact that you are looking at things from the same point of view that you have been used to. This article describes a technique that may help you overcome this creativity block. It includes a detailed explanation and a demonstrative example. - Increasing Your Creativity - What Would You REALLY Do With A 36 Hour Day? By : Dan Goodwin
What would YOU do, if tomorrow a worldwide treaty agreed to change the number of hours in a day from 24 to 36?At first you might think:"Fantastic! That’s exactly what I need. More hours in the day will allow me to work more on my creative projects and increase my creativity. I'll now have time to fit in all the daily necessities, then have time left over to be more creative. What a great idea!"But what if you soon found that actually lack of time wasn't the main factor in stopping you from being more creative? - Being More Creative: What's YOUR Story About Why You Don't Create More? By : Dan Goodwin
Each of us also holds dear a special kind of story.Or more accurately, a collection of stories, our own little pocket anthology.These aren't stories based on our own past exploits, events that have actually happened and we can recollect.These are the stories we've carefully constructed and now carry around, about who we are and what we can achieve.So what's YOUR story about why you don't create more? - Creative Perfectionism Is A Killer Disease: Here's The Miracle Cure By : Dan Goodwin
What is the one single thing that more than anything else stops us from creating?The disease that kills creative projects dead, saps creative energy like a swamp full of starving leeches and can destroy a previously healthy and productive creative artist in hardly any time at all?Read on to find out what it is and how it can be cured - Creative Success: The Razor Thin Line Between Achieving And Not Achieving Your Creative Ambitions By : Dan Goodwin
Creative Success is so much closer than you realise. In fact it's just one simple step away.It's on the other side of the same razor thin line that's the difference between success and failure, achieving and not achieving, in any other area of life.So what is this one single crucial element? - Creative Perfection: 5 Reasons Why We Destroy Our Creativity By Trying To Achieve The Impossible By : Dan Goodwin
Whoever you are, whatever your preferred creative field there's one absolutely, so-sure-you-can-bet-your-house-on-it, way of ensuring you wear your creative energy down to nothing, and pretty much completely destroy your current creative motivation, possibly for ever.PerfectionismOften, perfectionism isn't actually the reason we don't create at all, it's just a convenient label to mask other fears.So here are just some of the most common faces of perfectionism and some alternative ways of considering them. - Increase Creativity and Achieve Your Creative Goals: Putting Flesh On The Bones Of Hope By : Dan Goodwin
The bones of your creative life are the goals, aims and ambitions you have for your creative work and your creative development.Putting flesh on these bones is where you plan how you're going to get there. It involves simply breaking each creative goal on a timeline into clear steps.Read on to find out exactly how to apply this to your creative life - 7 Improv Principles for Creative Flow and Cultural Transformation By : Michelle James
By adhering to 7 basic improv principles you can access greater creative flow. They are fun and effective for personal, organizational, or cultural transformation. - On Becoming A Cartoonist By : Rick London
Alexa and Netcraft's top-ranked cartoonist talks about the land mines and challenges of becoming a cartoonist, shifting gears in mid-life. - Short Sleeves Insights - Death By Design? By : Hal Manogue
" Death is different living for the exalted one. His soul becomes calm and settled. Death is union not torture and suffering. It's different than the ignorant one who dies all the time." Once again my friend Rumi says so much - Brainstorming - Building Great Lists By : Sean Ray
List building is probably the simplest tool you could use, however, most people get stuck trying to figure it out! It isn't rocket science. Simply grab a pen or pencil or sit at your computer. Start with what your site is about let's using antique cars for an easy example. Antique cars, who would be interested in antique cars? Begin by jotting down people or organizations that might be interested: men, women, car clubs, auto shops, antique car clubs, car magazine, body shops. This helps get your mind going. List building is simply brainstorming! Writing the people and organizations- - Art Therapy By : Lucy Costigan
Art therapy provides the opportunity for insight, self-expression and communication, within a safe therapeutic relationship between client and therapist. It can take place in one-to-one settings, or in groups. It is frequently used in educational settings, in psychiatric wards, in art psychotherapy, in self-development groups, in nursing homes, in rehabilitation programs, in prisons, and in many other settings. Art therapy can provide a fascinating pathway to the unconscious world of every person. - An Idea or Concept Perceived by Act May Be More Powerful Than One Created From Thought? By : Lance Winslow
Ideas, inventions, innovations and concepts are something that humans hold at a high value. Ideas or concepts that are perceived or born of an act or an event generally hold a more powerful imprint in the mind than a human idea or concept which is created from only a thought. This is due to the fact that humans tend to visualize ideas and concepts in their minds, thus if they see it or observe it, then it makes a more lasting impression. - Short Sleeves Insights - Next Stop, Within! By : Hal Manogue
"I want to go away, hundred of miles from my mind. I want to be free from good and bad. So much beauty is behind this curtain. Here, there is my real being. Oh, you ignorant ones, I want to be in love with myself." What a trip with Rumi - Super Computers to Scan Data and Find Anomalies in Society and Discover Creative Geniuses By : Lance Winslow
Although there are few that see things the way I observe them, I have noted that there are always anomalies in human societies no matter how small the data set. Take a High School for instance, there will be a few students in the school who are geniuses, a few spelling bee champions, a few super athletes, etc. What is important is that we find these superstars of the various domains and allow them to excel for the betterment of all. - Fostering Creativity, Innovation and Geniuses in Our Society By : Lance Winslow
Is it possible to modify the way a society thinks about creative geniuses, invention and innovation to increase the sum total output of the civilization? I believe it is, do you want to know how I believe this can be done? - Definition of Creativity is Arbitrary; Let's Make It More So by Scrambling the Information Flow By : Lance Winslow
Many believe that the definition of creativity is arbitrary and they give many reasons for this. Perhaps this is because there are so many creative people in free-societies like the United States and because they appear to be so very diverse. Indeed, I completely concur that the definition of "creativity" is arbitrary and cultural based and that in the present period we know little about it. - Master Da Vinci's Streamwriting Technique By : Brad Isaac
Let’s suppose for a moment that he wasn’t born genius and whatever tools Da Vinci used we can use to tap into the hidden genius too. What would it mean to you and your life if you could use the same tools Leonardo used in his life? What if you could apply those tactics to open the same pathway to the superconscious he did? Would you want to see your life from that perspective? Would you want to apply this expansiveness of thought? - The Laws of Creativity By : Mario R. Churchill
Creativity is the process of formulating new ideas and concepts. It is also associated to finding the connection between these thoughts. Looking at creativity from a scientific perspective, creative process (which is also called divergent thought) are said to be original and appropriate. - Creativity: The Constant Invitation By : Michelle James
Creativity is not just the domain of those in the arts - it's there for everyone all the time. It makes the impossible possible by creating the pathway into what is possible and what is next; and transforms perceived limitations into surprising opportunities. - Creativity Defaults: How Are You Unknowingly Limiting YOUR Creativity? By : Dan Goodwin
What would you say if someone suggested to you that you were greatly limiting your creativity and creative output without realising it, every single time you come to create?Each time you settle down to create, are your creativity default settings - both internally and externally - set up to enable you to create as easily and freely as possible? - 50 Ways To A Bright Idea By : Derek Cheshire
When you have a bright idea there is always someone who takes the wind out of your sails by asking "what about?" Why not preempt them by doing a little homework first? Here are 50 questions, variations on the usual who, what, why, when, where. Think your idea through using these as prompts and see if you can improve your idea. - Imagination: Your Connecting Point to All Possibilities By : Julia Rogers Hamrick
Your imagination is your connecting point to all possibilities. It is where you download divine ideas, view holograms of them, and charge them with energy. One aspect of you is an expert at using this premier tool in your creativity toolkit. - Natural Resistance Within The Creative Process By : Michelle James
How do you recognize and move through the "Natural Reistance" that emerges within the creative process? - Why Do We Want to Be Creative? By : E. Raymond Rock
The first and most important question to ask ourselves is why we want to be creative. If our answer is not profound, then our chances of becoming truly creative are slim. - The Negative Pressures of Mass Culture By : Philip Harris
What are some of the impediments to create your own reality? Watched TV lately? - Creativity: Acting Like God By : Harlan Hodge
Creation is humanities purest desire and writing is our highest form of expression. Recently, my desire to write has been reignited by a friend who has successful connected by passion for writing with my desire to create. This revelation has resulted in my passionate encouragement of others to trek this course of creation through writing. - Writers Thrive On Anxiety By : Bryan Knight
Writers are fuelled by fear, driven by anxiety. Ralph Keyes inspires writers in his book "The Courage To Write" by showing how every writer needs both the fear and the guts if he or she is to thrive. Recognition and retribution are a writer's well-earned rewards. - Creative Support: Are You "Reaching Out" But Not "Letting In"? By : Dan Goodwin
As creative people, many times we may feel that unless we go it alone and create with any outside help or support from others, that somehow we’re not being "truly creative". If we allow any outside input or influence in, it may corrupt and tarnish our inspiration, flow or muse. Then even when we accept we do need support, there's a way to go before we actually allow people to give it, and further still until we let it have a positive effect on us- - Increase Creativity: How To Achieve Your Creative Goals By : Dan Goodwin
By believing that fixed pre-conditions are necessary for our happiness, and then finding they never quite arrive when and how we expect them to, we set ourselves up for much frustration, procrastination, even anger, and can trigger off spirals of negative inner thoughts and criticism.Here's an alternative approach to finding, and then achieving, YOUR creative goals. - Creative Blockages - 7 Killers of our Artistic and Creative Potential By : Andrew Leigh
Everyone knows writers' block and artists' block. But it's not always helpful to think of it so simply, because when it comes to things that stop us doing the creative things we want to do, there's a marvellous variety for us to choose from. - An Ice-Breaker To Reinsure Everyone By : Remy Bertrand
Use this ice-breaker to kick start a creativity workshop or just have a good time with your friends on a rainy afternoon. - Creativity Management: The Value of Time Pressure By : Kal Bishop
There is a pervasive belief that time pressure stimulates creativity. This is both true and false. - Goblins in Thongs: The 5 Rules of Creativity Explained By : Will Kalif
Creativity has a "Mysterious Force" connotation. It is often thought of as something that only genius artists possess. And while it is true there is a bit of mysterious force about creativity, it is something that everyone possesses. Understanding the 5 rules of creativity will help you to develop and grow your creative potential. - Navigating the Unknown: 7 Reflection Tools By : Michelle James
We are in times of unprecedented change, ambiguity and uncertainty. New ways of thinking, doing and being are required to meet these challenges. You've been told to take more risks, be more flexible, and to "think out of the box." But how do you become the resilient adventurer who never meets a box you can't think yourself out of? Read about the 7 reflection tools to jump start that process. - Finding Our Inner Artist By : Barbara Swan
Having a creative outlet, such as drawing or painting or writing poetry is of great value emotionally, practically and spiritually, as it helps us develop the right side of our brain, reduces stress, and most importantly, adds tremendously to the quality, joy and passion of our lives. - Savoring Life: 8 Steps to Living a Juicy Life Now! By : Cynthia Morris
Our dreams for our future give us zest and juice for better days. Yet how do we appreciate what we have right now? Coach Cynthia Morris shares ways to move toward your big dreams while enjoying a juicy life in the moment. - Give Serendipity a Chance By : Mark Sincevich
The process of taking a few wrong turns or saying you are not available to go with the crowd to the business dinner opens up a world of possibilities ranging from the discovery of a new neighborhood to touching the massive bricks making up sections of the Great Wall. These changes in our routines added up over time will form a habit allowing new ideas to seep into your consciousness and innovation to occur in your organization. New innovative ideas will occur when you take the time to alter your perceptions of a place and at the same time this will improve the connection you have to yourself. - Spiritual Rebels: Their Name Fit the Character By : Bhaskar Banerjee
A Portrait is the story of the nets and the escape from them to freedom, and the name of the hero is full of sympathetic significance. Stephen is the name of the first Christian martyr. He protested that God’s message to the people had been misinterpreted. He was accused of blasphemy and cast out of the city and stoned to death. Indeed, Stephen thinks of St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin as his green. - Top 45 Imagination Quotations By : Vernon Myers
How often do you use your imagination? Think about these quotes from famous people to help you harness the incredible power of your imagination. - Rediscovering Your Creativity By : Ken Sapp
We are all born creative. We are all born with a "Sense of Wonder". Unfortunately, as we get older we tend to lose our sense of wonder and consequently our creativity as well. We suddenly have everything figured out. So how can we regain our creativity?
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