Creativity

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Creativity, whether in art, business, or life, is the act of making new things or finding unique solutions to difficult problems. Creativity, just like writing, public speaking, or goat herding, is a skill that can be developed and improved with effort over time.

Besides being a skill anyone can learn and improve, creativity is also variable and fluid; depending on our mental energy, motivation, and circumstances, it can come and go like the ocean tide. However, by taking a few simple steps, you can develop a little more control over those tides.

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By Steve Gillman

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To increase creativity, you need to do two things. First, you need to encourage it. Second, you need to train your brain. Start on both of these right now, and you can experience greater creativity today.

Encourage creativity and you’ll increase creativity. This is true of most things you want to see more of in your life. Encouragement can work wonders. How do you encourage creativity, though?

First, by paying attention to it. Your subconscious mind tends to give you more of what you pay attention to. If you ignore the creative aspects of your life, you are telling your subconscious that they are unimportant. If you consciously note when you are creative, and you look for opportunities to be creative, your subconscious mind will start feeding you more creative ideas. Look for it and you’ll find more of it.

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By Andrea Beaulieu

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Definition of Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Do you want to create something and you just haven’t been able to do it? Here’s the thing: If we want to experience something differently, or create something new, we need to get out of our regular routine. We need to expose our minds to different ways of looking at things. We need to mix things up. This is especially true if we want to stir up our creativity and hear our authentic voice. We need to be different, and to do different.

Here are some ideas:

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By Valery Satterwhite

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I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the various messages we’ve received over the years and generally highly regard. Many success and self-help experts have told us that we need to “Seize the Day”. “Carpe diem” they tell us.

Well, what the heck does that mean? How does one “seize the day”?

“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” ~Margaret Fuller

The dictionary defines the word seize as:

- take hold of; grab
- take or capture by force
- assume, seize and take control without authority and possibly with force

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by Nicholas Nelson

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Have you heard the “Think so shall it be” saying. Well it’s true. Your subconscious listens very attentively. If you tell yourself “I can’t” aloud or internally, then well you guessed it. You won’t. When pressed with a problem to come up with a creative solution and you immediately tell yourself “I can’t do that” try “In the past I have had a challenging time doing this however I am learning to take a more creative look at things now”. Or something along those lines. Your subconscious will start to take down the road block that you mentally created and in time, you will open up. Allowing more room for a creative outcome rather then the wall you have encountered in the past.

Encouraging your subconscious can also be a big creative boost. Write your ideas down. It can be on a napkin, your hand, your friends arm (you can only write on one of your arms and your friend has two) or a notebook. Your subconscious mind is more likely to give you more of what you pay attention to. Writing down your ideas tells your subconscious that they are important. If you don’t pay attention to your moments of creativity, you are telling your subconscious that they are not important and those ideas may become far a few between. When writing down your ideas you are feeding your subconscious with motivation to search out more creative ideas. Writing it down also helps you remember your thoughts, your subconscious works on it, and it can transform into some more creative ideas.

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