Creative Day Jobs: 7 Key Reasons Why A Creative Day Job Can Be Great For YOUR Creativity

Whatever your creative talents, and however much you nurture them, the chances are, like the majority of creative people, you’re not able to make a full time living through them. Here are 7 of the top reasons why a creative day job can, more than being a financial necessity, actually be fantastic for your creativity in a variety of different ways -

Creativity Is The Key

Creativity is indeed our key to our destiny, our divine rit. Motivator, Kurt Lee Hurley provides a humorous and insightful look at what we are here to do and to be creative.

When I Was A Child – How Creative Freedom of Childhood Can Help Us Increase Our Creativity Today

As creative adults, for many of us one of the most difficult aspects of creativity is allowing ourselves the freedom to experiment and to be pioneering in our own way as artists. So how can we break free from this stranglehold and begin to nurture once again that pure unhindered sense of creative adventure we ALL have at a young age? Try this exercise to get you started –

The Art Of Lucid Dreaming - How To Do It

Lucid dreaming is the term given when you become conscious whilst still in a dream. This gives you the ability to do whatever you desire. Find out how to Lucid Dream.

Creative Heroes: Enrich Your Own Creativity by Learning From The Creative Heroes You Admire

All of us who are creative have heroes of some kind, those we look up to as giants in their field, and who’ve achieved the kind of creative feats we aspire to ourselves. Rather than just passively gaze at these creative idols of ours in admiration though, how can we learn from them in a way that will stimulate and enhance our own creativity?

New Perspectives: Increasing Your Creativity and Imagination Using the Art of Reframing

As creative people, we can, ironically, at times be very un-creative in our ways of thinking. We may have certain ideas, habits or assumptions that are burned into our behaviours and we simply do without questioning whether there is a better way, or even if there is another way at all. Reframing is a way to look at situations, behaviours and motivations in different ways and finding new perspectives. Here are some of the ways you can use Reframing to enhance your own creative work -

Befriending Your Creativity

We are all creative, but some of us do not know what to do with that aspect of our selves. Here are suggestions and examples of how the creative can be a more constructive and constant companion.

Create Your Own Identity

External beauty is temporary. Inner beauty is permanent and eternal. This is the beauty we need and this is what we gain when we activate ourselves. This is the beauty God recognises. So seek love, for you seek inner beauty. Direct your mind to a higher ideal.

Tap Your Creative Potential

Deep within each of us lies a great wealth of creative potential, and I believe tapping into this potential is the best way to solve the challenges that we encounter in our lives.

Struggling to be More Creative? How to Truly Make Space for Creativity in Your Life

Have you ever tried repeatedly to bring certain new things into your creative life, only for them each time to be ineffective or short lived? Whatever the creative venture, if you have the same pattern of starting, then stuttering, then stopping again, maybe there’s something deeper at work that’s stopping you...

Got Creative Imagination Yet?

A secret Japanese strategy for financial success.

Art And Creativity - What Is It? Where Does It Come From?

Are people born creative? Is the urge to make things, to draw, to paint, to just put things together, an inherent part of our being? Many would say yes.

Self-Care Rules of the Road

There's no need to leave your self-care at home when you go on the road. And there's definitely no need to return completely depleted of energy and your health. Pack along these ten rules before you leave for your next tour.

New Gadgets - Six Ideas

Magnets that stick to windows? That is just one of the ideas for new gadgets here. Take them and patent them if you want.

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Perhaps it is only an old world hangover that we listen politely to what another has to say and move along. The opportunity for creative dialog between writer/ speaker and reader/ listener is simply tossed aside. Maybe too many people are too busy with self promotion and endless chores. Let’s slow down a little and enjoy one another.