Developing Creativity

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Excerpts from our creativity class.
It teaches techniques for developing creativity,
provides practical information about living a creative life
and is available on CD
Supporting Your Creative Soul
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

Bonus creativity class bits and short creativity lectures
Includes excerpts from our latest in-development creativity class
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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.
Resting ... versus Being Stuck

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

The left brain and right brain approach creativity differently
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.
Learn more about left brain / right brain strategies
Drawing On Creativity
Mind Mapping For Creativity
I don't take notes anymore. Instead, I create one wildly colorful, creative and inspiring page whenever I need to make a decision, prepare a presentation, or plan an event. That whole two-column plus and minus approach? Gone. Bring on the Mind Maps!
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left brain / right brain creativity
Mind Mapping For Creativity

Developing Creativity
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

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.
Learn more about rituals to boost creativity
7 Easy Creative Rituals to Spark Your Imagination and Inspire Your Soul

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

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.
Learn more about dealing with artist's block
Overcoming Artist's Block
Part 2

Strategies for Living a More Creative Life
9 Ways to Live Creatively
Creativity -- according to Webster's it means having the ability or power to create; characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative. Ok that sounds great, wouldn't we all like to be more creative every day? Sometimes the hardest part to trying something new is the first step. Here are nine inspired steps to help you start living a creative way of life:
Add a more creative dimension to your life
9 Ways to Live Creatively

Sometimes the Best Creative Advice is "Just Do It"
Make Your Brain Your Slave
If procrastination has you in its grip, try bribing your brain. Promise yourself if you work for just 15 minutes, you can turn your attention to something less stressful or more pleasurable. Because of your brain's Drive for Closure, once you start, your brain will push you toward completion.
Add a more creative dimension to your life
Make Your Brain Your Slave

7 Creative Problem Solving Tips
So, you have a problem that you need to solve quick. You have agonized over this issue for hours, days, months, or even years and you still can't resolve it. Well, don't worry my friend; the answer is already within you. You simply need to call forth your creative energy in order to bring the answer into your focused mind.
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7 Creative Problem Solving Tips

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?
Find your creative inspiration by connecting to your creative dream
Connect With Your Creative Dream

Connect with Your Body
When we're in the creative flow, we can sometimes forget we even have a body, because our minds are exploding with color, sounds, words and images. But when unhealthy habits sap your body of its vitality and strength, your creativity and productivity will be sapped as well.
Connect to your creative inspiration
through awareness of your physical body
Connect with Your Body

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.
Learn how to deal with the pain of criticism and rejection
Coping with Criticism and Rejection

Enhancing creativity by using your intuition
Spark Your Creativity Via Your Intuitions
Worried that you're not creative? You are, but you may be out of touch with it. Your intuition can lead you into a world of novel ideas, experimentation, and brainstorming that will perk up your work life and stimulate innovation and problem-solving.
Learn about the link between creativity and intuition
Spark Your Creativity Via Your Intuitions

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