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| Be Creative to Get Money |
| 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.
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| How Do You Paint New Age |
| About once every year or so, I take a critical look at the design of my web site and now our popular newsletter and wonder what I could do to create a theme background for them.
The site has been changed several times over the last four years, but it doesn't really have a theme backdrop. I deliberately keep it simple for easy viewing and administration.
Once again it is screaming at me to do something. I have spent some time looking over ready made themes and theme pages, but nothing has come More.. |
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| Mind Power Games |
| Want a fun way to tune up your brain? Why not use some classic mind games to help you increase your brainpower and get you out of your thinking "ruts." Good mind games habituate you to using creative problem solving as a normal part of thinking about things.
One lateral thinking puzzle you can try right now involves nine dots, layed out three by three. You have to connect them all with four straight lines, and without lifting the pen or pencil from the paper. Figure this one out and you'll appr More.. |
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| Innovation Through Concept-Combinatio |
| There are many creative problem solving techniques used by inventors to come up with new solutions to old problems. For sheer innovation, though, it's hard to beat the technique of concept-combination. Just start combining ideas and things, and voila, you're having fun - and maybe creating something new.
Innovation or Inovation?
Combining the concept of search engine misspellings with article writing gave me "inovation." What good is that? Well, now that I've used the misspelled word twice, th More.. |
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| Produce Creativity: 4 Ways To Motivate Your Melon |
| It was 8:00 PM and I'd hit a creative wall - hard. But there was so much work to be done! And I just had to get out of the office or else my article would never get finished. So I knew the only way to stimulate my mind was to practice a technique called "displacement."
You've no doubt heard of (and probably practiced) this creativity booster before: take a different route to work, eat at a new restaurant or take an outside break - anything to change your environment. In fact, if you Google the More.. |
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| Take Time To Think |
| I recently saw a program on television wherein the participants discussed the degree to which present day computer technology has contributed to our economy, well-being and our ability to communicate. They pointed out the many ways that this technology was already obsolete and that further refinements will impact our future in ways we dare not imagine.
This scares me.
This advancement precipitates an increasing reliance on computer skills and "push the envelope" technology. This over-emphasis More.. |
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| Macrovision |
| These days it's all about breaking things down into manageable pieces in order to be able to reach a goal and track your process/progress, and keep yourself from going insane because there's not a lot of time to breathe.
And I'm a firm believer in this approach, in, as I've heard it termed: 'microvision.' But I'm also a believer in thinking 'blue sky,' or BIG. I call this MACROVISION. This is where you step back and open up and let everything move through you (not 'in,' but 'through'), when you More.. |
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| Make EVERY DAY An Artist Retreat Day |
| What do you enjoy most about going on an Artist Retreat Day? For most of us it's getting away from our "normal routine", having our creativity sparked by new surroundings and having the luxury of "open time" to work on our creative projects.
A retreat gives us the opportunity to step outside the day-to-day and look at the big picture of our creative dreams. It gives us freedom from obligation and responsibilities and guidance from a facilitator and/or our artist peers.
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| Creativity Isnt Just About Art It Is About Healing |
| Go on, pick up a pen, hold it in your hand and ask, " What can you do for me?" What do you hear? If you listen with your heart you may hear " I can show you a world within that only you and I can explore! Let's start writing and see what we can find."
As you travel deeper within you will start to find a world of emotion and thoughts that you never imagined you had, whether you are delving into those dark corners of pain or dancing into the lightness of your being. Once you have expressed throug More.. |
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| Is Your Team Suffering from FWTS? |
| Who do you know who is feeling stuck, under-performing, or dealing with frustration and upset?
These folks might be suffering from FLAT WORLD THINKING SYNDROME! (FWTS)
"Flat World Thinking Syndrome" is the number one issue standing between predictable performance and breakthrough performance. Allow me to illustrate...
For hundreds of years (and perhaps thousands for that matter) mankind believed the earth was flat. Their perspective on the universe held the planets and the sun revolving aroun More.. |
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| A Book About Faith and Love |
| With news about Iraq and London and even our own neighborhood disasters, we need something to encourage us to keep going. While browsing the net the other day I came upon the most wonderful way of preserving my HOPE. Hope is not dead, no in fact it is alive and well in each of us!!!! We just need to bring it our!!! Share with me in this discovery today.
You have most likely heard of Scrapbooks or photo memory albums-- Creative Memories being the most famous that comes to my mind. These are memo More.. |
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| Sharing Our Creative Work with Others |
| In my "Roadblocks to Creativity" e-course, I ask the question:
"What's your first thought if someone hesitates before giving you their opinion about your creative project?"
One artist wrote: "When some one hesitates before giving their opinion of my work, I think it is going to be negative; I recently showed some work to my boss and her criticism was so harsh that I now won't show her anything, but the worse part is--it made me even more conscious of showing my work to others as well. She was More.. |
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| Creative Drought |
| For the past several hours, I've struggled with this week's message, the words, "what will I write?" screaming in my ears. I've felt like the princess who promises her first born child to the little man named "Rumplestiltskin" if only he will spin straw into gold. Unfortunately, I'm not a princess and Rumplestiltskin is no where to be found.
Finally, it dawned on me that the most helpful thing I might share this week is how vital it is to embrace the empty spaces that crop up in life rather tha More.. |
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| Being Creative is Essential for Online Success |
| Do you have a strategy that ensures your online business stands out from the crowd?
If your answer to the above is NO then you need to address this issue, because if you don't, it is unlikely that your online presence will even be noticed.
With there being so much competition in every field on the internet it is essential that you offer your target market something different than your competitors.
By distinguishing your product or service you immediately position your business apart from the More.. |
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| Go Ahead and Think Outside the Box! |
| I am trying to create a discipline where I blog daily. This alone requires effort and commitment. But isn't that what our lives ought to be about especially if we are trying to achieve our goals? That's just a teaser.
Anyways, yesterday was another day when I learned something. If not learning, I needed to recall something I had read.
I am a person who likes to try things out. Positive things. Sometimes when I do and people around me make what you call 'uncalled for comments' it cuts right thr More.. |
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| A Question of Time and Memory |
| I have been struck recently by a number of questions which have found their way into my mind. One of these is the question of memory. Imagine for a moment travelling back to a world that everyone believes is flat. In this place we all go about our business accepting that this is an absolute and therefore it is. But amongst us are people who question and say. "But is it, and what if it's not?" They are of course laughed at and told they are stupid.
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| Creativity Management and Team Size |
| Effective team structure is critical when managing creativity and creative output.
It appears that many individuals are effective alone - Einstein, Marco Polo etc - however, what is usually overlooked is that these people often collaborated regularly. Also, it is very difficult to separate the idea from its influences. In any case, individuals are prone to path dependency, parochialism and reduced insight through reduced intellectual cross-pollination.
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| Courage and Creating |
| Doing anything creative often brings up fears, anxieties, insecurities. Courage may be defined as going ahead in spite of fear. But many creators not only live with their fears, they welcome them.
Fear is perhaps the most basic emotion we have. As Leonardo da Vinci reportedly said, "Fear arises sooner than anything else." Writer Julia Cameron has commented that artists are often terrified. Being creative is venturing into the unknown, and it sets off emotional alarms.
Fear can show up, in vari More.. |
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| Are You A Creative Meathead? |
| Remember Archie Bunker's description of what a Meathead was on All in the Family?
Dead, from the neck up!
When it comes to creaivity, innnovation, coming up withideas that magically turn into money - are you alive?
Ever wonder how some of the big names in business are able to continually come up with new, innovative product ideas,marketing programs and publicity projects?
New ideas are the lifeblood of leaping to the top of yourfield.
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| How to Make Time for Art |
| The key to making time for art is the ability to say "NO".
If you say "yes" to everything that is asked of you, you will nothave time to be creative. And it is so easy to say "yes" to allkinds of things and so hard to say "no". It is hard to say "no"to immediate family, extended family, demands of friends,organizations, messy houses, cluttered basements--the listis endless.
Making art takes lots of time. It not only takes a great deal oftime to do whatever it is you are creating, but it also t More.. |
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| How To Master Your Game |
| Learn how to master your area of endeavor the right way. Start out by finding the people and books that will make you exceptional. Seek out the best sources of information that you can afford.
Analyze each part of the skill you wish to master, then put it all together to create a fluid, form. Develop first a theoretical understanding, then a practical one. When you practice your knowledge, your work will flow and appear effortless.
Practice relentlessly. Spend long hours practicing. Keep a reg More.. |
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| 10 Tools for Dealing with Criticism and Rejection |
| Ouch! Whether it's feedback we've asked for, an unsolicited remark called out from the audience or a simple "no" result of an audition or submission process, criticism and rejection are a huge part of our lives as creative artists.
Sometimes we're so fearful of being criticized or rejected that we keep our creativity bottled up and don't let it out. This article features 10 tools for dealing with criticism and rejection.
Other times we constantly adapt what we create, focusing only on the "mar More.. |
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| 3 Simple Steps To Solving Problems |
| You can move beyond your stuck states by contemplating all the possible consequences of your own particular situation.
What is it that you want to work in your life?
What inner obstacles prevent you from achieving the successful outcome you desire?
Once you have confronted your own fears, pulled the emotional skeleton's out of your mental closet, then you will be ready to take stock of your current situation, look at it objectively, and try out new strategies.
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| New Inventions - From Absurd to Wacky! |
| New inventions? Heard of a revolving restaurant combination television tower? How about color x-ray pictures? Or heard of a new invention that turns the sea's salt water drinkable? These are wacky new inventions not having been fully used!
Are you on the lookout for shirts that don't require ironing? For $4,000.00, you are able to purchase a shirt processed out of titanium-alloy fibers interwoven with nylon. Suffering from persistent back pain? A new invention, based on data from the makers of More.. |
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| What is Creativity? |
| Here in England September represents the end of Summer and the beginning of Autumn as well as the start of thenew school year and the start of many new initiatives in business, life and lots more besides.
When anyone is looking to make any kind of change in their life, often the approach they take needs to becomeattractive or appealing in order for them to maintain it and often it may not remain attractive or appealing foras long as we like. I get lots of people that tell me that they find it d More.. |
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| How to be More Creative and Enhance Your Creativity |
| 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 andyour 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.
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| Find the Artist Within |
| Can anyone be an artist?
People admiring my work often say, "I could never do that!" I say, "Yes, you can!"
Eight years ago, during a very difficult time in my career in finance (Downsizings, layoffs - let's not talk about it, OK?), my company sent me to a development workshop for female executives.
I came out of a particularly thought-provoking discussion group and penned the following very prophetic free verse.
Threads They Said
Mimi said, "Why don't you paint again?"
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| Why Do We Need Creativity? |
| Creativity is central to the management of our individual lives, but in modern times few people are able to access this as a resource. Alan Watts writes in The Wisdom of Insecurity:
"We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives out of all proportion to 'instinctual wisdom'; which we are allowing to slump into atrophy. As a consequence we are at war within ourselves - the brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things that the brain will not More.. |
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| Telling It Like It Is (Or Can Be) |
| When you hear, "tell me a story," does your mind suddenly go blank?Don't panic. The good news is, you're already a natural storyteller!Surprised? You shouldn't be. It's built right into our genetic code. Humanbeings are a storytelling species. Of all the creatures on Earth, we're theonly ones that share past memories and future dreams as a way to getto know others, build friendships, plan an endeavor, inspire a group.
In fact, we're usually telling ourselves some kind of story all the time -abo More.. |
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| 12 Ways To Boost Your Creativity At Work |
| 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: If More.. |
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| Unlock Your Creative Secret Weapon |
| It seems like this week a ton of people have been asking me how they canbecome more creative. I even had one client jokingly accuse me of being incahoots with the Devil in trade for my creativity. "Where do you get all of yourideas?" he asked. Well, I have decided to share my secret with you in this issue.
In the following paragraphs you will learn my creativity secret weapon. I use itall the time. It will work for you just as it works for me. It has served me welland it is this technique that More.. |
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| Break An Egg For Creativity |
| In 1420, the dignitaries of Florence held a competition.
They offered the enormous prize of 200 gold florins to the architect whose genius could span the unfinished dome of the Florence Cathedral.
This was a great challenge. Even the original builders of the cathedral in 1296 left writings hoping that God would offer a solution because they did not have one.
Filippo Brunelleschi was the answer to their prayers.
He proposed the radical idea of a dome supported by a brick vaulting system that More.. |
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| Top Ten Ways To Jump-Start Your Creativity |
| 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 SpongeOpen your mind to the unknown and grasp the little details often overlooked in every day life.
3 - Read, Read, ReadRead 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 More.. |
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| Creativity And You |
| 95 percent of what we know about the brain, we have learned in the last 20 years. So, your beliefs about creativity were probably shaped by faulty information.
For instance, many believe that only special, talented people are creative - and you have to be born that way.
Wrong.
The notion that geniuses such as Shakespeare, Picasso and Mozart were `gifted' is a myth, according to a recent study at Exeter University. Researchers examined outstanding performances in the arts, mathematics and spor More.. |
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| Riches Through Creative Thinking! |
| When solving problems after you have exhausted the normal means of coming up with the solution, think in terms of unorthodox methods. Vary your thinking and try to solve the problems by creating something completely new and irrelevant. Come into the problem through the "back door".
Research and curiosity go hand in hand in solving the toughest problems. Quite often the answer is so simple, it is not obvious to us. Use an organized plan to work with and record the results logically so you will h More.. |
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| ejuvenate & Re-Fuel Your Inner Drive |
| I believe that as solo-entrepreneurs, business owners, and executives we all need a pat on the back. Give yourself commendation. Why? Because we have the courage to step outside of the corporate box and start our own businesses, be our own boss and take on the challenge and responsibilities required for this adventure. In order to even contemplate that step we must have had a vision, a dream and a passion to bring it to fruition. So commend yourself.
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| How To Increase Creativity... Set Deadlines! |
| Deadlines are something all of us face from time to time.We face deadlines whenever we set even a small goal andcommit to accomplish it... that's when deadlines becomesimportant and valuable to us.
Why is a deadline so important?... Without one... many of our projects would, be put off, or eliminated completely. The closer we get to a deadline the more our thoughts, ideas, imagination and creativity go to work to help us meet the deadline.
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| Five Basic Steps to Benefit from Your Creativity |
| The ability to exercise your creativity is even more important for you than you probably think. Why? First, your creativity tremendously contributes to your self-actualization, which is essential for you to feel satisfied with your life and be happy. Second, it is exceedingly important for being successful in building relationships and earning money.
Taking creative approach contributes to your emotional state the similar way as the spice contributes to the taste of a course stimulating the app More.. |
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