Creativity Management: The Value of Time Pressure

There is a pervasive belief that time pressure stimulates creativity. This is both true and false.

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.

Increase Creativity With Visualisation: How Just 10 Minutes a Day Can Boost Your Creative Output

Visualisation is a technique we can use to boost our creativity by playing in our heads powerful images of how we want to be, at our most creative, productive and happy. Read on to find out how...

Top 45 Imagination Quotations

How often do you use your imagination? Think about these quotes from famous people to help you harness the incredible power of your imagination.

Why Do Humans Have Varying Tastes for Art?

Not long ago our Online Think Tank gathered knowledge and insight from about 30 artists around the Western Hemisphere. From Hawaii to Florida and South America to Alaska; some by email, forums and blogs and others by chance meetings in warmer climates getting away from the cold weather.

Optimizing the Key Success Factors in Your Work From Home Business

How do you roll your ideas of your own tedium chores, career objectives, good documentation practices, goal setting, measurements of progress, ploughing through books on achieving success, and everything else you can think of in this long list of THINGS into an easily accessible image containing your desired outcome with all the sensory input that tells your brain it is HERE AND NOW, right now?

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.

Our Creative Imagination has the Power of Transcendence

In the Ode to a Nightingale (Stanza 1): Keats describes his reaction to a nightingale's song while sitting in a garden. So intense is his happiness that it paradoxically produces pain and a dull feeling, and he longs to be united with the bird's song.

True Existence

We form these things here. We invent our definitions in this place. And here, we are all artists. We are pictures within pictures within pictures ad infinitum, separate yet inter-connected portions of existence, every part exalting the significance and supremacy of the total individual identity, co-existing as multiple gods presiding over the multiple realms we bring to life. Reach out and touch your true existence.

Coffee for Character

In order to develop your character while traveling, you need to do the following. Build in buffer time before and after your meetings so that you can engage in at least one non-work activity. This buffer time needs to be as important as any other high-priority work-related activity, so resist the temptation to schedule another meeting in this time. I allow a half-day to a full day for this buffer time depending upon the location.

Creativity Tool: Reversed Pareto

This article is one in a series of short articles describing practical creativity tools. It uses a reversed version of the classic principle of Pareto, to help you come up with creative ideas in seemingly trivial areas.

Generating Ideas: Everything is a Starting Point

A great mentality to have is to treat every idea as just a starting point. This is true whether you the ideas are yours or someone else's. Once you can do this, you become more resourceful and a much better team member.

What Do You Read to Peak Your Creative Juices

There is somewhat of a debate amongst psychologists and amongst creative people themselves as to what type of intake one should put into their mind to foster creativity. Many authors of fiction do not read what other fiction authors write. Many creative people will not read the newspaper as to become jaded or they will watch little TV. They want to keep their creative minds pure.

What's on Your iPod? The Power of Music to Transform Your Life

Do you want a life of greater ease, balance, happiness, and prosperity? Of course you do! So why does it seem to take so long for our dreams and desires to manifest? The answer lies within.

How to Increase IQ? Solving Problems by Selective Encoding - Part II

Selective encoding is required to solve the complex problems. In the Howard family, there are four sisters, and each sister has one brother. If you count Mr.Howard, how many males are there in the Howard Family? For the answer read this article.