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Learning to be a More Creative Person
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Supporting Your Creative Soul
Maybe you had a prim school teacher ... or a stern, old-fashioned grandmother ... who told you "Anything worth doing is worth doing well." Well, yes, that's true ... once you know how to do something well. Once you have the skills, and the discipline, and the pride in your own creation to do something really well. That's one of creativity's aims, after all, to produce something outstanding.
But your creativity is a "work in progress" ... and always will be. You will always be working to improve, strengthen, develop, learn, discover or invent elements of your creative life and perspective. That's what a creative person does. In fact, that's your real job as a creator. The things you create are just the areas where you practice your skills. The product that results demonstrate how well (or not) your creative skills have brought your vision into reality. To a true artist, the failures can be even more instructive than the successes -- although I admit they're not nearly as much fun.
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Supporting Your Creative Soul

Resting ... versus Being Stuck
There's an important difference between "being stuck" and "needing to rest." Objectively, the inactivity may be the same ... but the feeling is very different. We need to rest when we've been hard at work long enough to feel the strain and exhaustion. We need to rest when we've finished a major project ... and aren't quite ready to start anything new.
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Resting ... versus Being Stuck

Boosting Creativity
Simple Ways to Turn Your Creative Spark into a Flame
Creativity and innovation begin with the spark of an idea. But for so many, the process ends there with no plan to manifest. Understanding simple ways to turn your ideas into action will give you the edge to turn that spark to a flame and rise as a leader in innovation and creativity.
These ten simple tools not only jumpstart your creative spirit, but they help you maintain and sustain the idea flow. Making these steps a part of your life will reinforce a solid creative foundation in your life, facilitate innovation, and ease your problem-solving process.
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Simple Ways to Turn Your Creative Spark into a Flame

7 Easy Creative Rituals to Spark Your Imagination and Inspire Your Soul
Creativity is a mysterious force that visits us with great ideas, new ways of seeing the world and the courage to do things differently. Revitalizing your creative talents will help you in the most unexpectedly wonderful ways: a new business idea, a renewed commitment to self-care, an appreciation for the beauty that lies all around us.
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7 Easy Creative Rituals to Spark Your Imagination and Inspire Your Soul

Unleash Your Creativity
Creativity is a mysterious force that visits us with great ideas, new ways of seeing the world and the courage to do things differently. Revitalizing your creative talents will help you in the most unexpectedly wonderful ways: a new business idea, a renewed commitment to self-care, an appreciation for the beauty that lies all around us.
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Unleash Your Creativity

Positive attitudes promote creativity
Creativity is enhanced by positive attitudes and a supportive mindset. Emotions like gratitude and joy are known to boost the development and expression of creative ability. Most of all, inner permission to be an artist, helps in living a satisfying creative life.
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Positive Attitudes and Creativity

There Are Important Differences in Left Brain and Right Brain Creativity
Drawing On Creativity
You see, the left side of the brain excels at verbal, analytical, rational and logical tasks. It's the dominant half. It takes over most of the time, using words to describe and define, figuring things out step by step, drawing conclusions based on facts and logic, and thinking in a linear way. The left side of the brain jumps right in with words and symbols, and is such a bully that it takes on even those tasks it isn't likely to perform well.
Now, the right side of the brain is completely different. It relies on nonverbal cues to process perceptions. It's good at tasks requiring the ability to see similarities, to understand how parts fit together as a whole, to make leaps of insight (those a-ha moments), and to perceive overall patterns at once. It tends to hang back a little, letting the left side take over most duties.
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and left brain / right brain creativity
Drawing On Creativity

Psychological Climates that Support or Hinder Creativity
Psychology and Creativity
Psychological states and attitudes have a significant impact on creativity, the development of creative talents, the quality of creative output, and the satisfactions that come with living a creative life. Here you'll find more articles on creativity, depression, fear, anxiety, and the positive attitudes and affirmations that influence the expression and development of creative skills ... for better or worse.
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Psychology and Creativity

Dealing with Writer's Block and Artist's Block
Overcoming Artist's Block
Part 1
How many times does an artist stare down at that blank piece of paper thinking "What on earth do I paint - Where do I put my first mark?" More often than you would imagine! It happens to all creative people actually, from visual artists, designers, poets, through to musicians and writers.
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Overcoming Artist's Block
Part 1
Overcoming Artist's Block
Part 2
Once you are ready to start working again you will know it instinctively. All artists go through periods of 'creative block' - it's normal, but after one such episode there are ways of stimulating ideas and getting the creative juices flowing again.
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Overcoming Artist's Block
Part 2

Coping with Criticism and Rejection ...
while working to develop or maintain the creativity in your life
Creativity can be frustrating and hard to maintain, especially when your creativity is blocked by criticism, rejection and a lack of support for your efforts. Here are some real life stories and therapeutic suggestions of how to cope with the situation when this happens.
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Coping with Criticism and Rejection

Mindsets that Maintain Creativity
Mindfulness and Creativity
You are so creative. Don't deny it. Whether or not you consider yourself a creative type, the truth is that you are constantly creating ideas. Mindfulness invites you to be aware of this constantly flowing river, and offers an opportunity to choose to sit beside it instead of swimming in it. By watching the ideas from that calm riverbank, you can more clearly see the ones that float to the top and sparkle in the sun.
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Mindfulness and Creativity

Creative Inspiration
Connect With Your Creative Dream
We get so busy in our day-to-day life, with all the doing and actions and daily chores, that we can quickly lose sight of the BIG PICTURE. What's it all for? What are you working towards? If you don't know where you're going, how will you know when you get there?
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Connect With Your Creative Dream

Emotions Caused by Music are Intelligent Emotions
Desperate because homeless people were camping out in a New York bus station, proprietors played opera music. It worked like a charm. It also worked when a California convenience store piped opera in their parking lot to drive drug-dealers away. I find this amazing since I just paid $200 to hear an opera.
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through your appreciation of the arts
Emotions Caused by Music are Intelligent Emotions

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