Creative Health For Life: Why Short Term Crash Diets Don't Work!

As with new exercise and diet plans, most of us begin new creative projects with great enthusiasm and energy. But very soon, the motivation appears to evaporate and the momentum we began with feels too difficult to maintain. So what can we do? How can we maintain the impetus and momentum we gain from those first few days of a new project?

The Two-minute Drill: Crisis Resolution

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

Creativity Management: Manipulating Hierarchies and Organizational Structure

Managing Creativity...Convention has it that hierarchies hinder creativity and innovation. But why?

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?

Creativity is Hard Work!

People who consider themselves uncreative believe that some people just are creative, and that they have the ability to just go off into a room somewhere and emerge a few hours later with new brilliant ideas. Here's the big secret of creativity: Creativity is hard work!

Seven Powerful Creativity Tools in One - SCAMPER

This article is one in a series of short articles describing practical creativity tools. In fact, it describes Seven Powerful Creativity Tools, that can be used for generating new product or service ideas, for coming up with new and more productive ways for an operational process, or in any other case you need to come up with innovative ideas.

Creativity Tool: Spreading Synonyms

This article is one in a series of short articles describing practical creativity tools. The technique described in this article is especially good when you need to work on catchy names or slogans, impressive speeches, or other occasions in which your creativity has to be expressed through words. The article includes detailed examples to make the creativity tool clearer.

Tips for Better Brainstorming

The most direct application of creativity is brainstorming. Here are some simple techniques to maximize your brainstorming efforts.

Trusting Yourself: The Key to Trusting Others

A primary reason we don't trust others is that we are afraid of how their letting us down will impact our lives. By trusting yourself, you can open yourself up to trust others.

How to Write Lyrics For a Song

This article highlights some interesting ways to write song lyrics. It considers some creative approaches taken on by current and classic artists, and suggests some other tips for fresh new lyric ideas.

An Online Think Tank for Artists; Good or Bad Idea?

Operating an online think thank is a complete study in human psychology, let me tell you they ought to give me a PhD (pile higher and deeper) for this project? What is so fascinating is all the differences in political and religious viewpoints and all the absolutes over belief systems. What I have found is that with Brilliance comes baggage and that the geniuses of the world and yes let me tell, they are indeed plentiful, seem be so diverse that it is almost impossible to define them.

Try This Brainpower Quiz

Think you know a bit about the brain and how it works? See how you do on this brainpower quiz.

Create Your Own Reality or Accept Someone Else's: It's Your Choice

As human beings we all have the power to create our own reality or bend to someone else's. It is possible to make your dreams come true!

Four Myths About Creativity

Here four popular myths about creativity are exploded and some solid thinking on the subject is presented.

Solving Those Difficult Business Problems

Often it is our perception of problem boundaries that actually stop us making progress so why not temporarily remove them, move or bend them a little and see what happens? This is a brief introduction to a problem solving technique known as Boundary Relaxation.