Chess and Chess Equipment

The game of chess is very popular all over the world. Good equipment adds great depth to the game and it makes every game an experience in itself.

Riding the Creative Flow

When you face a problem, look at your reality the way you would look at a fiction. Think: I built it. Then look at the general atmosphere: is it a comedy, a drama, a boring scenario, a fun adventure, a pleasant happening? Take some distances and see if you did choices that make you feel good.

Powerful Creativity Secrets: Background Static and Pink Monkeys

When we're in full flow with a creative project, we usually want all our creative ideas, energy and focus to be directed towards that particular project, every spare sentence, idea, image or note to perfectly fit right into our latest work. But in reality, it doesn't work like that. So how can we deal with this? How can we eliminate all the static, the surrounding interference we don't want to hear when we're focusing on one creative project?

Think And See Your Life Get Better

Life gets easier when you stop to think.

Pump Up Your Brain

According to Nobel prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling, the best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas. Unfortunately, school teaches us to find the right answer, when actually there is usually more than one right answer for a problem. We need to be more child-like in our approach to ideas. Here are some exercises to help us generate ideas or to look at things from a different - and perhaps, childlike - perspective.

From Pain to Freedom

A painful experience is often a positive message our body is sending to our consciousness. Listening to it may help us to change obsolete beliefs and access a new harmony.

How to Draw Fantasy Creatures

Drawing fantasy creatures like unicorns, mermaids, and dragons can at first be a difficult thing to do and it takes some practice but there are some basic rules you can follow to create terrific creatures and make them look great.

The History of Creativity

A funny and insightful look at the history of creativity and what we can learn from it

Unlocking Your Creativity

This article challenges the traditional meaning of creativity and presents a 5 step process to unlock a person's creative side.

Creativity Secrets Revealed: The Best Place to Start Your Next Creative Project

When we consider where to begin on our new creative project, the sheer number of different possible decisions and options we’re faced with can halt us in our tracks. This kind of intense overwhelm has been the undoing of many a potentially great creative work. If only we knew the best place to start, we could get on with the creating and putting all our energy and effort into the project itself! So where IS the best place to begin? What's the secret of those who create rewarding, stimulating, meaningful projects time after time?

Einstein's Mental Snapshots Rule

Want to be a genius - here's Einstein's memory system called Mental Snapshots.

Trip the Life Fantastic

Inspiration breathes life into our existence. Jennifer creates a collective vision composed of inspiring things shared by her readers. Drop in on a dream, slip into a story, and sense the whole in each fragment as she weaves a revelation.

Colour - Get it Right, First Time

I do not know who invented The Colour Wheel but s/he sure was a friend to every artist who has followed. Models of The Wheel can be found on my website (click on the url at bottom of this article.) You can enlarge, print and copy the models as many times as you wish. Use them to experiment while you become familiar with the principles behind the theory.

Creatively Stuck? Try Sitting With The Silence

As creative people, the position of being stuck for ideas and direction is unavoidable, and one that we’re all faced with now and again, for however short a time it lasts. But if we can let go enough of the maelstrom of fears and ideas in our thoughts and truly listen to what the creative project is asking for, we’ll find the answer often leaps out and becomes quite obvious. Here’s how...

Do You Do Manic?

Change your mood, you change the results. Speed up your thinking, and you win the game.