Fun Changes Boost Creativity

A few weeks ago I suggested making small changes to your daily life to help your brain practice thinking in new ways. You can open your mind to new thought patterns by purposely setting yourself up to adapt to change. How did you do?
(Here’s the list of suggested mind expanding changes.)
Did it put you [...]

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My Coffee Shop Creativity Ritual

I sometimes write in a coffee shop. I might go there because the peeps at home are driving me nuts, sometimes because I am feeling uninspired and hope a short stroll and change of scenery will help jolt my creativity, sometimes because I am away from home and just plain need a pit stop with [...]

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Vibe by Design Supports Creativity

I am convinced we are both overtly and subtly influenced by the space we are in, including our work place. We need what works best for us so we can feel ‘right’ and do our best creative work. Vibe is important!
How Sense of Place Influences Creativity
During years of designing landscapes and gardens, I learned to [...]

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Do You Mind Creative Clutter ?

Do you think clutter provides a richly stimulating environment for creativity or does it cause confusion in your mind? Some people insist that a neat and tidy environment is a prerequisite for getting down to productive work. I’m not so sure.
Neat and Tidy is Productive
In her MyAmericanArtist.com blog post Clutter Causes Confusion, Lori Woodward [...]

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Simple Daily Changes to Increase Creativity

Listed below are a few deceptively simple ways to implement small incremental changes to help you become accustomed to generating fresh thought patterns and building creative momentum.
Changing routine habits helps develop and strengthen your creativity “muscle”. As your mind becomes accustomed to processing change and filtering experiences through different perspectives, it also becomes increasingly [...]

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How Small Changes Increase Creativity

Ultimately, whether creative ideas are large or small, they are firmly rooted in the details we process through our minds. Every new idea, regardless of scope, begins from a small detail, something that catches our attention and holds us rapt long enough to think outside the immediate. All it takes for this to occur is [...]

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Be More Creative by Being in the Moment

You know how you come back from vacation or the weekend at the same time relaxed but also all jazzed up and ready to roll? And then you re-enter the routine of daily life and the energy seeps out of your being until you are right back where you started with the same sapped-out feeling [...]

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Random Find Fish Eggs

Today I found a half emptied sack of colorful Easter candy stuffed willy-nilly in the back of a kitchen drawer along with a vast quantity of spilled catnip, a set of batteries, some elastic bands and who knows what else. Do you have a drawer like that?
I thought of the fish plate while delicately [...]

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Wreck this Journal Some More

Today I took my Wreck this Journal journal to the park for an outing, a little fresh air, some sunshine. Then I burned it up.
A bit overdone, perhaps, but tasty!
HEY WRECK STARS! KEEP ON WRECKING!!!!

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Creativity Help from Coaching the Artist Within

Recent Reptitude posts examined some of the ideas, exercises and techniques psychologist and creativity expert Eric Maisel presents in his self-taught creativity course or creativity manual, Coaching the Artist Within. You might find these posts useful as a companion to the book or as self-review tools, or as reminders to help you stay on track [...]

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