Practicing Creativity

How do you practice your creativity? You can start by picking up a disposable camera and taking a few photographs around town or in your office. It is through the eye of the lens that you start to see the world in a different and more creative way. The next time you are asked what you got on your SAT test, pull out a camera and start taking some pictures instead. Isn’t the creative approach to diffusing a difficult situation more valuable?

Your Imagination Is Your Greatest Asset

Using your imagination is fun. It connects us to the child within us. It is our greatest creative skill and when harnessed, it makes the impossible become a reality.

The Two-minute Drill: Crisis Resolution

Here is the shortest explanation on crisis resolution you will find. If you are skeptical, read on!

Feng Shui - What It Can Do For You An Intro

The ancient art of Feng Shui can bring you success in a number of forms including better relationships, health, creativity and generally more success in work and your personal life. It's easy to do so lets look at Feng Shui in more detail.

Spiritual Rebels - Their Name Fit the Character

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.

Creativity Coaching: But Isn't That Just For Professional Artists?

The main blockage many of us have when it comes to being creative is that we simply don't think that we are. And so, by not even considering that we are creative, and thinking that our creative work isn't valid and important - whether we write, weave, paint, knit, act, sculpt, cook, compose, sing or enjoy any number of other creative activities - we limit ourselves from receiving the recognition and nurturing our creativity deserves.

The Negative Pressures of Mass Culture

What are some of the impediments to create your own reality? Watched TV lately?

On Becoming A Cartoonist

Alexa and Netcraft's top-ranked cartoonist talks about the land mines and challenges of becoming a cartoonist, shifting gears in mid-life.

Being More Creative: What's YOUR Story About Why You Don't Create More?

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?

Dare To Experiment With Your Ideas - And Reap The Rewards That Come With It

An excellent quality you'll want to develop in yourself, if you want to experience more fulfillment in life, is the willingness or courage to experiment. It is one of the key qualities of highly creative people.

7 Improv Principles for Creative Flow and Cultural Transformation

By adhering to 7 basic improv principles you can access greater creative flow. They are fun and effective for personal, organizational, or cultural transformation.

3 Ways to Unleash Your Creativity

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.

Original Thinkers Must Have Massive Data - Information And Observational Input

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.

Planning And Goal Setting For Artistic Creativity - A Message For The Terrified

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.

Writer's Block - A New Perspective To Help You Overcome Writer's Block

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...