Creativity

Creativity Index

201. A Quick Course in Creativity By Paul McNeese
     This quick course in creativity is designed to give you a platform to stand on as we look at the various ways you can handle home, social and workplace situations, job-search details and career-path decisions. Let’s examine what creativity might look like.Here are some of the ways in which creativity expresses itself. Perhaps the creative idea is one that mixes and matches items or ideas that haven’t been combined in just this way before. A wonderful example of this comes from Anita Roddick, w…



202. Art, Artists and Money By Mary Baker
     Practical money tips for people in the arts.1. Sock it AwayIf you are in the arts there is no such thing as a steady paycheck. Money usually comes in spurts with no money, often for months, many months, in between. Don't make the mistake of thinking that spurts of income will happen on a monthly basis.When you get money from selling paintings at a show, a role in a play, an advance for a book, any art project--sock it away in a very safe place, CD's or bonds or a savings account. Rainy …



203. Creativity Management – Artists and Creativity By Kal Bishop
     Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of novel ideas.There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development …



204. Re-Awakening Your Intuition By Nick Arrizza, M.D.
     Whenever you listen to children you often get a wonderful sense of how open and free they are to what they are feeling and experiencing all around them. As they grow up however we also sadly witness how these childlike qualities slowly begin to disappear. Developmental experts often describe this evolution as the formation of the adult personality and therefore justify it as a normal and necessary human phenomenon.Many of us however, if we are honest with ourselves, recognize that something of…



205. Creating and Living Your Ideal Legacy By Steve Brunkhorst
     A legacy is more than a gift that lives on after you. Certainly, a legacy is a contribution to humanity. A legacy provides value to future generations. However, if you are creating your ideal legacy, it will also make your heart bubble with passion and excitement today!Louisa Alcott wrote: "When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but…



206. How to be More Creative and Enhance Your Creativity By Adam Eason
     efore thinking about how to be more creative, let me begin point out some real barriers that some people seem to have when wanting to enhance creativity, have a think if any of these things are applicable to you and your life;1. Lack of time. This is not as major as you may think. Linking thoughts and ideas only takes seconds. It can happen anytime, anywhere. Provided you are in the right state and pay attention to your own experience.Creativity in my opinion is more about the quality of the …



207. Stress VS Creativity By Silvia Hartmann
     Now when I use the term "creativity", I mean the kind of states of mind and body where thoughts and ideas flow freely; where there is a STREAM of data information that comes clearly from a very different place than one might normally inhabit and which translates smoothly and perfectly into colours, visions, sounds, patterns, movements, actions and resolutions.These are very beautiful states, very precious; this flow of "creativity" is nourishing, enlivening and one can do so many things for a …



208. 10 Ways to Thrive as a Creative Artist By Linda Dessau
     1. Connect with your DREAM – Indulge yourself in a vision of the bigger picture and get out of the mire of self-doubt, details and challenges of today. What’s the purpose of it all? What are you working towards? What is your unique mission to carry out?Daily Practice: Spend a few quiet moments reflecting on your BIG CREATIVE DREAM. Then, capture your thoughts through words, images and/or music and look back on these every day as a way to reconnect.2. Connect with your “INNER ARTIST” - That par…



209. Connect With Your Creative Dream By Linda Dessau
     We get so busy in our day-to-day life, with all the doing and actions and daily chores, that we can quickly lose sight of the BIG PICTURE. What's it all for? What are you working towards?If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there?Taking the time to connect with your creative dream allows you to visit (and then revisit) the big picture. For instance, if I know that these smaller articles are going to come together into a book, I'm going to approach writing them w…



210. Top Ten Ways To Jump-Start Your Creativity By Danielle Hollister
     1 - Take A Tour of the Great Outdoors Consider a hike in the mountains, a stroll beside the river, a run along the beach, a jog through the park or a walk around the city.2 - Soak Up Your Surroundings like a New Sponge Open your mind to the unknown and grasp the little details often overlooked in every day life.3 - Read, Read, Read Read anything that interests you... Regardless of whether it´s related to writing or not! Think variety - from trashy romance novels and bad tabloids to The New …



211. Creative Thinking Mastery - 5 Steps To Fearless Creative Thinking By Wily Walnut
     If you want to practice dynamic, fearless, brazen creative thinking, follow these 5 easy steps:1. Prepare to STINK when you start to think! Perfection is for saints and I've never met one. Your creative thinking is going to stink at times. You are going to come up with some truly hideous ideas. Probably a big steaming pile of them. And that's great! You should be mentally willing to be a human craptivator -- churning out bad ideas. Go for quantity before you look for quality. In amongst those …



212. Creative Thinking versus Critical Thinking By Kal Bishop
     The process of creative thinking is often, mistakenly, intertwined with critical thinking. There is a tendency to write and edit simultaneously, couple hypothesis generation and evaluation, combine problem identification with solution.To increase effectiveness, one should first apply creative thought, which is meant to be daring, uninhibited, free-spirited, imaginative, unpredictable, and revolutionary. The trick is to ignore content and maximise the size and richness of the idea pool.Second, …



213. Computer In The Shop? What Do You Do Now? By Janice D. Byer
     Have you ever had one of those days when you just feel like something is missing? … something just doesn’t feel right… like you should be doing something but you can’t remember what?Well, I had one of those days recently… my computer was in the shop for a minor repair. Ahhhhh! What was I going to do?Ok, so I planned to take my computer in for the repair. Then I would go shopping for my daughter’s birthday present and have lunch with my husband. But, that still left half a day. No problem. That…



214. Be Creative to Get Money By Waheed Adegbite
     Creativity alone can make you money and no matter what anyone tells you or what you think, anyone can be creative. Creativity is like a skill that needs to be developed. The more you work at being creative the better you will get. You have to allow yourself to think. Just sit back, read some books, look at TV. Keep feeding your brain with ideas until you find the one or one(s) that will make you that fortune you have been working hard for and waiting to come.Also, educate yourself in business …



215. You Don't Have To Be An Artist To Be Creative By Marcia Zidle
     Imagine that a block of ice has been set on your desk. Now describe it. Square, clear and cold, right! Next, consider it from different points of view: If you were trekking across Death Valley, that ice could quench your thirst; a doctor could use it to reduce a patient's fever; a madman could use it to crack a victim's skull; and an engineer could boil it to produce steam for a turbine.What does an ice cube have to do with creativity? Just this: If you really think about it, you begin to…



216. Creativity Management – Sustainability through Passion By Kal Bishop
     Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of novel ideas.There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development …



217. 7 Techniques to Supercharge your Creativity and Solve your Problems By Avish Parashar
     Do you ever encounter problems, challenges or obstacles in your business? If you answered 'no,' then you can stop reading and continue to rake in the fortune you must be making. For the rest of us, the answer of course is 'yes.' For the most troubling problems, the biggest challenge is in your inability to come up with new and innovative solutions. This is because when you try to solve a problem, you probably use the same approach every time ('let me sit here and think about it until I come u…



218. Ideas By Seamus Dolly
     While the inception of penicillin brought a bit of a stir, and the television warranted some focus, it is somewhat easier now to fashion an idea into something sustainable.Easier again is the ability to make an idea into a business without leaving the house.For this to happen, we must blame our current communications networks, or more specifically, the Internet.Tele commuting, as it is known, can never replace physical relocation. Nor is it likely that we will be able to download a pint of mil…



219. Increase Creativity In Two Steps By Steven Gillman
     To increase creativity, you need to do two things. First, you need to encourage it. Second, you need to train your brain. Start on both of these right now, and you can experience greater creativity today.Encourage creativity and you'll increase creativity. This is true of most things you want to see more of in your life. Encouragement can work wonders. How do you encourage creativity, though?First, by paying attention to it. Your subconscious mind tends to give you more of what you pay attenti…



220. 12 Ways To Boost Your Creativity At Work By Cheryl Lynch Simpson
     As workplaces continue to rightsize and downsize, we all find ourselves doing more with less. How do we stay ahead of the workload while staying sane? The key is to put your creativity to work for you so you can do more with less and shine like never before. Just what is creativity? It is the ability to make, produce, cause to exist or bring into being; the ability to make something out of nothing or to make something better than it was before. Creativity is an inborn force that we all have…



221. Mind Mapping By Robert Abbott
     Ever been on a project where you had trouble keeping all the ‘if’ questions straight? “If this happens,” you say, “we’ll do one thing. But, if that happens, we’ll do something else instead, but only on a Wednesday.”In cases like these, especially with high stakes, you may have drawn a diagram on a piece of paper. That way you could visualize the forks in the path ahead, while still seeing the objective at the end.Diagrams map our reasoning and can be as simple as a few lines on a napkin, or as…



222. True Power: Understanding the Source of All Creation and Creativity By S.C. Giles
     "True Power" is a series that will focus on proven techniques to accomplish any goal. Each exercise is designed to enlarge your ability to believe what you want is possible and will actually happen.How Beliefs WorkYou use them everyday. They determine everything from how you feel about your body to who your friends are, from your political affiliations to your work. "They" are your beliefs. Whether you know it or not, you use visualization, affirmations, and self-hypnosis all the time, and her…



223. We Tend To Make Up Our Own Truths: What Stories Are You Making Up? By Eric Johnson
     Someone once said that man keeps looking for truth that fits his reality. Oddly, more often than looking for truth, we tend to make up our own truths. Meet Roger & Elaine. Roger is attracted to Elaine and asks her out. She accepts; they have a good time. Later, he asks her out again, and again they enjoy themselves. After a while neither one of them is seeing anyone else.One evening on the way home, a thought occurs to Elaine. She says, “do you realize that we’ve been seeing each other for exa…



224. Experiencing Glass By Kenneth Hoffman
     Glass has been part of human civilization for thousands of years, it's usefulness and beauty is taken for granted by most of us. Until a person holds a liquid mass of molten glass on the end of a stick, one can not imagine how wonderfully alive glass can be. Like glass, live can be hard and brittle one moment and hot and flowing the next. One day I decided to experience hot molten glass for myself and on my day off traveled to Glassboro, New Jersey to the Wheaton Village Museum and Glass Fa…



225. Creating Possibility For Transformation By Harry Henshaw
     Transformational Counseling is about assisting another to transform his life. Transforming ones life is not about changing it. While life is much about doing differently, the genesis of the transformation is about a person altering or transforming his belief or thought of who he thinks he is. We tend to believe that our life is determined or influenced by people, places, things, situations and circumstance and that who we are is the mere accumulation of our past experiences but this is not …






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