How to Harness Creative Thoughts?

Thinking Creative thoughts is great, but the ability to harness them is the key. Learning how to hold on to your creativity will separate you from average to great. It will take you on the next step in your evolution to success and happiness.

Morning Confession from a Night Owl - The Liquid Paper and Brown Socks Confession

Last night as my husband, the early bird, was preparing for bed, I noticed his socks looked a bit strange. He walked toward me where I sat on the couch.

How To Be Creative & Be Happy – Letting Your Creativity Naturally Evolve

We each have deep within us the knowledge and the resources to build a life of happiness and creativity. We've tasted enough of being both creative and happy to know what we love and what we want more of, and what we don't like and need less of. Every one of us is unique in our creativity, so every one of us has a unique recipe for a creative and happy life. But there are some basic ingredients that are needed for everyone's recipe. In this article we're going to look in more depth at one of the most important: Letting our creativity naturally evolve.

How To Be Creative & Be Happy – Getting The Support You Need

We all have inside us all the resources and knowledge we'll ever need to lead a creative and happy life. We've seen and experienced creativity and happiness often enough to know what they are. We know what's good for us and what we'd like more of. And we know what isn't good for us and what we need to reduce. As we're each unique creative people, we each have a unique recipe for a creative and happy life. But there are some basic ingredients that are needed for everyone's recipe. Today we're going to focus on one of the most important: getting the support you need.

Unlock Your Creative Inspiration

Creativity is just a state of mind that can be triggered with specific mental strategies and can be enhanced by exploring other perspectives using a variety of tools. And the great thing is, the more you practice creative thinking, the more creative you become!

Unleash Your Creativity - 7 Common Creative Blocks & How To Overcome Them

As anyone creative knows, being able to unleash your creativity is often easier said than done. Being more creative would come more readily if it wasn't for the many different types of creative block we experience as artists and creative people. Here are 7 common creative blocks and how you can begin to recognise and overcome them...

Why You Should Become A Mastermind

We all know what happened after September 11, when airlines and other firms started to downsize. Thousands and thousands of highly qualified people were laid off to roam the streets looking for jobs. Thousands more left colleges and joined the thousands already on the streets hoping to find a job.

Warning - Reading These 7 Books May Change Your Life

Have you ever noticed how many ways you can be busy in order to avoid things that are not comfortable for you to do? I was quite good at avoiding reading, until the day I read Matthew McConaughey's story in Parade Magazine.

Walking and Creativity

We can often think that the main benefit of walking is physical. However, Thom Hartmann, author of Walking Your Blues Away, thinks there’s more to walking than just good physical health.

The Success Train - Or What Station Do I Get Out At?

Are you unknowingly holding up your own success? Statistics show that less than 26% of people turn their dreams into tangible results. Which means that 74% of the population never allow their dreams and goals to come to fruition; they just swirl around in their minds and always remain what ifs, should haves, and could haves. Goals must have a measurable result with a time frame for completion. A measurable goal is quantifiable.

Creativity is Magnetic - 4 Ways to Boost Your Brain

Even if you're not the most outgoing person, creativity is your surefire road to success.

Unleash Your Creativity - How Giving Yourself Time To Learn Can Help You Be More Creative

Giving yourself time to learn and develop can help you be more creative. The only way we can truly learn, develop and evolve as creative artists, and as human beings, is through experience, through trying out something, seeing what works for us and what doesn't, then doing more of what does work, and less of what doesn't. It's OUR creative life, we can make a deal with ourselves when we start each new project as to how it’s going to be, and how we will approach it, so it's as fulfilling as possible. To make this easier, focus on these 3 key elements:

Data Dumping For The Creative Genius Of Original Thought

Creative geniuses have to be careful that they do not get too caught up in all their ideas. Some creative geniuses have two or three excellent ideas per day. Many of the concepts they create are not economically viable although they are quite unique. Therefore a creative genius will need to data dump. Or simply put the idea into a computer or tape recorder and forget about it and move on.

Increase Creativity- Become A Highly Charged Creative Lightning Rod For New Ideas

If we are to be more creative, and have more creative ideas, we need to adopt some of the properties of a lightning conductor. We must find ways to attract ideas and let them flow to us and through us with as little resistance as possible. Here's a great way of putting this into action-

New Ways To Create - 5 Ideas To Help You Experiment, Liberate And Reach Beyond!

Whatever medium we’re creating in, it can be easy and very productive to get into a strong flow, but also dangerously easy to get in a creative rut. Productivity, and finding the methods, environments and routines that work well for our creativity is one thing. But becoming a human photocopier and churning out almost identical pieces of creative work time and time again is something else entirely. Anyone who’s committed to progressing and evolving creatively must be prepared to experiment. So here are 5 quick ideas to give YOU new ways to create: